On 14-09-25 10:20 PM, David Lang wrote:
>> Hello Developers,
>> For the last week or two I have been trying to contact people for help
>> and/or learning in order to help out
>> more. I am unable to get any emails back from them, I am assuming this is
>> due to my issues with the community.
>> If someone would like to explain a way to either resolve this or help me me
>> learn the community rules and how
>> to do things the right way that would be great.
>
> Going over the archives a bit, it looks like there are a lot of people who
> have taken the time to reply to you.
>
> It looks like you are falling into a common trap of looking at particular bug
> reports or FIXME items and trying to silence them. But you are doing so
> without understanding the code or functionality being provided. As a result,
> you are doing exactly what people are afraid that static checking will result
> in, a local fix to silence the checker that doesn't actually fix the overall
> problem.
>
> In addition to the various places you've already been pointed at, I'd suggest
> that you look at the kernel janitors pages and mailing list
> (http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors), the linux-kernel list has a huge
> membership and a high volume of traffic, so learning as you work here is not
> always the best thing to do.
>
> David Lang
David,
That wasn't my idea, it was to help out and ask questions if I don't understand
something first. I will start with kernel janitors and go from their.
Thanks Nick
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