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

[Nicolas Ferre]

Le 16/07/2015 18:28, Greg KH a écrit :
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:16:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> I heard that IBM once had a method where if you submitted a change, and
>> that change made it into kernel, even if the final change was not
>> authored by you, you still got credit for it. That's a fabulous way of
>> looking at contributions and giving credit to your employees.
> 
> You also got a big stuffed penguin for your first kernel patch being
> accepted, which turned out to be a good motivator for people when half
> of the cubes on the floor had the penguin but you didn't.
> 
> I like the idea of sending out something for a kernel patch, I'll see if
> the LF could sponsor something like that...

Being named in the in the "Kernel development" section of lwn.net is
generally a valuable and nice reward.

Bye,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre