About Low Hanging Fruits

About Low Hanging Fruits

[Mayur Patil]

Hi,

  I just want to know like other Open source projects is there a thing in
linux kernel as

  Low hanging fruits. I have searched in bugzilla but not able to find it.

  Thanks  !!



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*Regards,Mayur S Patil,Looking for R&D or Soft Engg positions,Pune, India.*
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About Low Hanging Fruits

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:13:28 +0530, Mayur Patil said:

>   I just want to know like other Open source projects is there a thing in
> linux kernel as Low hanging fruits.

The Linux kernel has been worked over by professional programmers for more
than a decade, and as a result the number of things that can be attacked
by a relatively unskilled newcomer is fairly low.

Your best place to start is probably under drivers/staging, where we put
all the stuff that's *not* up to standards yet.  Each driver should have
a TO-DO file describing what needs doing, and Greg HK is always willing to
take checkpatch style fixups for the staging tree (many other maintainers
*don't* want style patches that aren't connected to other work - if there's
other active work, they can introduce merge conflicts, and if nobody's working
on something, it's best to not touch stable code...)
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About Low Hanging Fruits

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:13:28 +0530, Mayur Patil said:
>
> >   I just want to know like other Open source projects is there a thing in
> > linux kernel as Low hanging fruits.
>
> The Linux kernel has been worked over by professional programmers
> for more than a decade, and as a result the number of things that
> can be attacked by a relatively unskilled newcomer is fairly low.
>
> Your best place to start is probably under drivers/staging, where we
> put all the stuff that's *not* up to standards yet.  Each driver
> should have a TO-DO file describing what needs doing, and Greg HK is
> always willing to take checkpatch style fixups for the staging tree
> (many other maintainers *don't* want style patches that aren't
> connected to other work - if there's other active work, they can
> introduce merge conflicts, and if nobody's working on something,
> it's best to not touch stable code...)

  actually, one area of low-hanging fruit is the Documentation/
directory, which could always use some attention. documentation is
always getting out of date, so pick a subsystem and clean up the docs.

rday

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About Low Hanging Fruits

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:11:57 -0400, "Robert P. J. Day" said:

>   actually, one area of low-hanging fruit is the Documentation/
> directory, which could always use some attention. documentation is
> always getting out of date, so pick a subsystem and clean up the docs.

Good catch, I'll add it to my standard reply. :)
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