Continuing Contributions

Continuing Contributions

[Nishka Dasgupta]

I would like to continue contributing to the Linux kernel, without
waiting for the next Outreachy cycle to begin. Would that be possible?
If so, do I simply send my contributions to the driver maintainers
(leaving out the outreachy group), or should I send it to different
addresses as well?
Additionally, if it is possible to keep contributing, should I
continue submitting cleanup patches for staging drivers?

Thanking you,
Nishka Dasgupta
Undergraduate Class of 2018, Ashoka University

Re: [Outreachy kernel] Continuing Contributions

[Vaishali Thakkar]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Nishka Dasgupta
<nishka.dasgupta_ug18@ashoka.edu.in> wrote:
> I would like to continue contributing to the Linux kernel, without
> waiting for the next Outreachy cycle to begin. Would that be possible?
> If so, do I simply send my contributions to the driver maintainers
> (leaving out the outreachy group), or should I send it to different
> addresses as well?
> Additionally, if it is possible to keep contributing, should I
> continue submitting cleanup patches for staging drivers?

Hi Nishka,

Glad to see your interest in continuing the contribution. Yes,
we use Outreachy mailing list during Outreachy application
period only. So you can just go ahead and send patches in
other subsystems [including staging itself] and can use
get_maintainer.pl to get the list of mailing lists and maintainers.

Thanks.

> Thanking you,
> Nishka Dasgupta
> Undergraduate Class of 2018, Ashoka University
>
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Re: [Outreachy kernel] Continuing Contributions

[Nishka Dasgupta]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:21 PM, Vaishali Thakkar
<vthakkar@vaishalithakkar.in> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Nishka Dasgupta
> <nishka.dasgupta_ug18@ashoka.edu.in> wrote:
>> I would like to continue contributing to the Linux kernel, without
>> waiting for the next Outreachy cycle to begin. Would that be possible?
>> If so, do I simply send my contributions to the driver maintainers
>> (leaving out the outreachy group), or should I send it to different
>> addresses as well?
>> Additionally, if it is possible to keep contributing, should I
>> continue submitting cleanup patches for staging drivers?
>
> Hi Nishka,
>
> Glad to see your interest in continuing the contribution. Yes,
> we use Outreachy mailing list during Outreachy application
> period only. So you can just go ahead and send patches in
> other subsystems [including staging itself] and can use
> get_maintainer.pl to get the list of mailing lists and maintainers.
>
> Thanks.

Thank you for the information. I will contribute as often as I can.
Finally, I would like to thank the mentors and driver maintainers who
guided me through this process and contributed to making my
experiences so positive. I would not have felt like continuing without
your patience and encouragement.

>> Thanking you,
>> Nishka Dasgupta
>> Undergraduate Class of 2018, Ashoka University
>>
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Thanking you,
Nishka Dasgupta

Re: [Outreachy kernel] Continuing Contributions

[Julia Lawall]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Nishka Dasgupta wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:21 PM, Vaishali Thakkar
> <vthakkar@vaishalithakkar.in> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Nishka Dasgupta
> > <nishka.dasgupta_ug18@ashoka.edu.in> wrote:
> >> I would like to continue contributing to the Linux kernel, without
> >> waiting for the next Outreachy cycle to begin. Would that be possible?
> >> If so, do I simply send my contributions to the driver maintainers
> >> (leaving out the outreachy group), or should I send it to different
> >> addresses as well?
> >> Additionally, if it is possible to keep contributing, should I
> >> continue submitting cleanup patches for staging drivers?
> >
> > Hi Nishka,
> >
> > Glad to see your interest in continuing the contribution. Yes,
> > we use Outreachy mailing list during Outreachy application
> > period only. So you can just go ahead and send patches in
> > other subsystems [including staging itself] and can use
> > get_maintainer.pl to get the list of mailing lists and maintainers.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Thank you for the information. I will contribute as often as I can.
> Finally, I would like to thank the mentors and driver maintainers who
> guided me through this process and contributed to making my
> experiences so positive. I would not have felt like continuing without
> your patience and encouragement.

Nishka.  Thank you for your continuing interest :)  If you keep working
steadily, you can start to get a good feeling for the code, and be well
prepared for applying in the future.

julia

>
> >> Thanking you,
> >> Nishka Dasgupta
> >> Undergraduate Class of 2018, Ashoka University
> >>
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> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>
> Thanking you,
> Nishka Dasgupta
>
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>

Re: [Outreachy kernel] Continuing Contributions

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 02:15:42PM +0530, Nishka Dasgupta wrote:
> I would like to continue contributing to the Linux kernel, without
> waiting for the next Outreachy cycle to begin. Would that be possible?

Yes, please!

> If so, do I simply send my contributions to the driver maintainers
> (leaving out the outreachy group), or should I send it to different
> addresses as well?

As was stated, just use scripts/get_maintainer.pl on your patch to
determine who to send it to.

> Additionally, if it is possible to keep contributing, should I
> continue submitting cleanup patches for staging drivers?

If you want to do that, yes, I gladly take cleanup patches.  And, that's
a good way to get more involved in a driver as you will start to become
more familiar with it over time.

good luck!

greg k-h