Re: Help Out and Issues with the Community

From: David Lang
Date: Thu Sep 25 2014 - 22:27:29 EST


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
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