From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: insane79@yandex.ru (Dennis Semakin)
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 11:31:19 +0300
Subject: Is kernel Bugzilla a good way to start?
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Ok, thanks. But actually I was confused and disappointed little bit when opened kernel bugzilla.
I found old and very old bugs and I don't suppose that they are actual. 
As for education and understanding how kernel sub-systems works it could be very useful try to fix some of them.
 

22.12.2016, 19:30, "Rik van Riel" <riel@surriel.com>:
> On Thu, 2016-12-22 at 19:21 +0300, Dennis Semakin wrote:
>> ?Hi everybody.
>> ?I just thought that may be it will be quicker to start to develop for
>> ?kernel.
>
> It can be, but one word of caution. ?Sometimes bugs
> get fixed independently from the bug report, and the
> bug described in the bug report may no longer be
> happening in the current kernel.
>
> It would be good to test the bugs people have filed,
> to make sure they still exist, before trying to "fix
> them again" :)
>
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