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

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:30:13 -0400
Chris Mason <clm at fb.com> wrote:

> 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.
> > > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 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

I wondered
why I felt like
I needed to look for
my lawn mower. Yeah, we are
bike shedding here. We need to
figure out how to get people not
afraid of submitting their first patch.
I agree, that swag idea may be a good one.

-- Steve