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

[Jason Cooper]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 03:45:08PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 07:35:39PM +0000, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > We could address new users not knowing about it with a script.  Any
> > [PATCH] posts to a mailing list where the sender is a miss in the git
> > history bounces the email to the kernel-mentor list.
> > 
> > In case it wasn't obvious, I'd be willing to be one of those mentors if
> > I had a few others to rotate lead with.
> 
> Great, feel free to join the kernel-mentors list and be amazed at the
> silence :)

Subscribed.

> The fact that it's not well known might be one of the problems, but it
> has been tried, just pointing out that this isn't a new idea, not that
> it is an invalid one.

Ack, I'll hack together a script to spot first-time patch submitters and
flag them for Cc/Fwd to kernel-mentors.

thx,

Jason.