From the [[http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org|Kernel Janitors website]] : «We go through the linux kernel sources, doing code reviews, fixing up unmaintained code and doing other cleanups and API conversion. It is a good start to kernel hacking.»

If the site is down, there's a local copy of all the content at: [[http://kernelnewbies.org/MigratingInProgress]]

"The Kernel Janitors Project" is a good point to start for newbie kernel hackers. The project maintains a [[http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo|TODO list]] from which contributors can pick a job which fits their skills. The tasks are mainly code cleanups so one can dive into kernel code without knowing all the technical details already. It's also a good point to learn about how to (or how not to) submit patches to the kernel.

The project keeps its own mailing list (http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#kernel-janitors) and the maintainer (Alexey Dobriyan at the moment) also irregularly produces a patchset which can be found on http://coderock.org/kj/.

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== UPDATES: ==

There's a newer Kernel Janitors page at [[http://code.google.com/p/kernel-janitors/]], but it seems that some of the content from above hasn't been moved over, so you should look at both sites.

There's an article, [[http://lwn.net/Articles/298854/|Fixing the Kernel Janitors Project]], with criticisms and suggestions about the project. Some suggestions to kernel newbies:
 * don't focus so much on fixing whitespace problems
 * avoid fixing compiler warnings because the goal is to fix the CAUSE of the warnings (which is usually not obvious), not just to make the warnings go away
 * test the kernel on a wide variety of hardware and submit good bug reports
 * acquire an obscure (i.e., not yet supported) piece of hardware and write a driver for it (might require some mentoring though)


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== UPDATES 26 Nov 15: ==

The [[http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#kernel-janitors|Kernel Janitors Mailing list]] seems pretty active. Still looking for a website.