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

[Tim Bird]

On 07/16/2015 08:41 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Seriously, this area is a minefield for new developers; it can be
> discouraging to put together your first patch, carefully follow
> everything found in SubmittingPatches, CodingStyle, SubmitChecklist, and
> HOWTO, appease the checkpatch.pl beast, carefully run get_maintainer.pl
> with the correct command-line options, and follow all the suggestions
> provided by reddit, Phoronix and 4chan, only to be told that the patch
> came in during the wrong phase of the moon and they really should have
> known better.

Here's just an anecdote to support this.  There's a highly qualified 
developer at Sony I was talking to this week, who said that when he
sees a bug in the mainline kernel, he usually just ignores it because
the hassle-factor of submitting a patch is too high.
 -- Tim