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[188.150.77.196]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 2adb3069b0e04-5a2b140ae35sm1623861e87.36.2026.03.30.05.10.50 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:10:49 +0200 From: Linus Probert To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Status of kernel-janitors? Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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