Status of kernel-janitors?

[Linus Probert <linus.probert@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I've been a long time builder and fiddler of kernel source. Running
self-compiled kernels and pulling in patches before official release
etc. Bog standard for most of you I assume.

I'd love to dedicate some spare to help the project. Like so many
others.

The kernel-janoitors "project" does pop up in various resources such as
kernelnewbies and I think it might have been mentioned in one of the
Linux Foundations free courses. But links to potential homepages seem to
be dead and resources are sometimes dated.

I read somewhere that this has mostly evolved into janitorial work in
drivers/staging. TODOs were mentioned.

So the actual question. In my mind janitorial code work is a good place
to dip ones toes when starting out. Is this the right mailing list to
ask about such things? Any suggestions to find an area where ones
assistance would be welcome?

I'm aware of checkpatch.pl but for many drivers diverging from these
rules seem intentional and just blindly fixing checkpatch warnings are
not helpful to the maintainer.
Open source is a lot of work so the goal would be to be helpful while
not stealing too much attention from concerned parties.

Br,
Linus Probert