[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists)

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:41:13AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 16:38 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> > since we're talking about recruiting, my point was by implementing 
> > some of these things we can maintain our standards while reducing 
> > maintainer/reviewer overhead.
> 
> Hopefully, yes. But people actually have to *use* the tools and
> services we provide. Like checkpatch.
> 
> Rather than seeing them as part of the problem.

Using checkpatch on patches before they are submitted are definitely
part of the solution.  Using "checkpatch --file" or coccinelle on
files where you are not the maintainer or one of the core subsystem
developers to inflate your patch count is (IMHO) part of the problem.

	      	      	   	       	  - Ted