[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists)
Jiri Kosina
jkosina at suse.com
Sun Jul 19 22:19:56 UTC 2015
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Steven Rostedt wrote:
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> But that was an exception because the code submitted was really worth
> while
This really made me wonder. Maybe we should really focus on why such
ocasions need to be pointed out as exceptions.
Is it that Linux kernel development got hyped so much that everyone wants
to have that bullet in his CV, no matter how stupid the submitted patch
would be?
If so, what should we do to change it?
I.e. I might propose a a slightly controversial topic, going a bit the
other direction than the whole "motivating newcomers" discussion: how to
get rid of useless submissions that are slowing maintainers down?
Should we stop publishing all the statistics? I believe there is no
question that those are one of the primary drivers of useless submissions.
Once maintainers get DoSed by submissions of wrong and/or useless patches
that eat non-negligible amount of their time, we're in trouble.
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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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