[Linux-kernel-mentees] Patch guidelines and tips
Sheriff Esseson
sheriffesseson at gmail.com
Fri Jun 28 08:39:15 UTC 2019
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 06:48:33AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:38:31 -0600
> Shuah Khan <skhan at linuxfoundation.org> escreveu:
>
> > Mentees,
> >
> > Thanks for your active participation in working towards the
> > required contributions. A few tips and guidelines to make
> > this experience productive for us all.
> >
> > - Before you start working on a task, please check the archive
> > first to see if a patch is already in progress. This avoids
> > duplicated efforts.
> >
> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/linux-kernel-mentees/
> >
> > - For documentation tasks, start small with picking one file for
> > conversion first. You don't have to work on all the files in a
> > directory in one step. Working on a single file helps you get
> > over the learning curve and then you can take on larger set of
> > files as needed.
> >
> > If in doubt, send email to maintainers - starting with me if you
> > prefer.
>
> Please feel free to send e-mail to me with regards to documentation
> tasks. I'm open to help with that.
>
> Also, I have a big series of documentation patches under discussion
> for the merge process. So, better to check with me before trying to
> work on something that was already done.
>
> >
> > These steps are all documented on the project page. Don't forget to
> > do the following when you send patches:
> >
> > - Please copy mailing lists and maintainers/developers suggested by
> > scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> >
> > - Please run scripts/checkpatch.pl before sending the patch.
> >
> > - Compile and test - Documentation compile steps have been documented.
> >
> > thanks,
> > -- Shuah
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mauro
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Please is the filesystem docs available or taken?
thanks,
Sheriff
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