From: michi1@michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com (michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Introducing Myself, Looking to Learn
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:22:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130904052213.GA4049@grml> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1309031736160.7922@oneiric>
Hi!
On 17:44 Tue 03 Sep , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
...
> it's somewhat absurd to say you want to get involved in kernel
> development, then ask *others* where you should start.
I guess it sounds absurd because he missed how open source development
works:
1) Find something you do not like.
2) Try to understand what is going on.
3) Try to think of ways to solve it.
4) Ask for opinions.
5) Implement your solution.
6) Post it. Depending on how others react you might decide to redo parts or
even start from scratch (or maybe even abandoning it). It could also
happen that somebody else takes your idea and solves it in a different
way. Bad things could happen as well, like everybody ignoring you because
they do not care about your problem.
This is in contrast to school/work environments where others tell you what
you have to do.
> it's like
> saying, "i really want to write a book, but i have no idea what i
> should write about. can you give me some ideas for a plot? and
> characters? and possibly an ending?" yes, it's that silly.
Isn't this called "writer's block"? To me this does not sound like a silly
thing to say at all.
-Michi
--
programing a layer 3+4 network protocol for mesh networks
see http://michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com
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2013-09-03 19:29 ` Introducing Myself, Looking to Learn Varad Gautam
2013-09-03 20:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2013-09-03 20:35 ` Varad Gautam
2013-09-03 21:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2013-09-03 21:44 ` Robert P. J. Day
2013-09-04 5:22 ` michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com [this message]
2013-09-04 13:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2013-09-05 10:06 ` María Soler Heredia
2013-09-04 13:55 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2013-10-28 10:40 ` Matthias Brugger
2013-11-14 3:50 ` Anand Moon
2013-09-04 1:00 ` Augusto Mecking Caringi
2013-09-04 1:33 ` Arlie Stephens
2013-09-04 2:28 Rakesh Ganimineni
2013-09-04 2:44 ` Greg Freemyer
2013-09-04 13:11 ` Varad Gautam
2013-09-04 13:06 ` Varad Gautam
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