From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sheriffesseson at gmail.com (Sheriff Esseson) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:39:15 +0100 Subject: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Patch guidelines and tips In-Reply-To: <20190627064833.3e41d60a@coco.lan> References: <6aa42000-1957-b0cf-ae6d-18e89d304892@linuxfoundation.org> <20190627064833.3e41d60a@coco.lan> Message-ID: <20190628083915.GA3682@localhost> List-Id: 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 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 > _______________________________________________ > Linux-kernel-mentees mailing list > Linux-kernel-mentees at lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-kernel-mentees Please is the filesystem docs available or taken? thanks, Sheriff From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sheriffesseson@gmail.com (Sheriff Esseson) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:39:15 +0100 Subject: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Patch guidelines and tips In-Reply-To: <20190627064833.3e41d60a@coco.lan> References: <6aa42000-1957-b0cf-ae6d-18e89d304892@linuxfoundation.org> <20190627064833.3e41d60a@coco.lan> Message-ID: <20190628083915.GA3682@localhost> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID: <20190628083915.TjZszaMNyeUkFBRgA3xYo3Aj1Nm8hk8hSA6tooyDahM@z> 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 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 > _______________________________________________ > Linux-kernel-mentees mailing list > Linux-kernel-mentees at lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-kernel-mentees Please is the filesystem docs available or taken? thanks, Sheriff