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

[Chris Mason]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:53:13PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 20:43:12 +0300
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley at Hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > >--- Some Maintainer's prefer these styles ---
> > >
> > > These are some extra styles that maintainers prefer. Some are strict
> > > about these, others may not care. It doesn't hurt to add them.
> > >
> 
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> > 
> > If you do that, and I get 500 coccinelle generated patches for SCSI switching the includes to reverse Christmas tree one file at a time, I'm afraid I'll have to shoot you.
> 
> I'll remember to wear my bullet proof vest coming to KS.
> 
> Should stress that just some people prefer them. Heck, we can teach
> checkpatch.pl to look at what file is being modified and see what
> formats the maintainer of the file wants. :-)

We're way off in the weeds here, and whenever this topic comes up, we
end up focusing on the minor annoyances that come from submitting
new code.  Small variations in coding style, function naming and
general methods for working with a maintainer are sure to vary.

Looking at Jon's statistics, we don't have a problem bringing
new people into the kernel.  What can we do to help the new
people be more productive?  My own feeling is feedback,
testing and documentation are more important than
100% consistency between maintainers.

I love Greg's swag idea, I'm sure
more than one LF member would
be willing to help sponsor
such a thing.

-chris