Re: Starting a Wiki for Syzkaller Bug Fixing Resources

[Kurt Manucredo <fuzzybritches0@gmail.com>]

On  Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:55:06 +0800  Esme Xuan Lim <esmethedev@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 28/04/2021 21:13, Kurt Manucredo wrote:
> > On  Wed, 28 Apr 2021 04:50:18 +0800  Esme Xuan Lim <esmethedev@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> Having been on the bug fixing mentorship, I've been collating a bunch of
> >> resources that helped me as I was going. I've been thinking that there
> >> might be a big gap in resources in where interns might be looking and
> >> was keen on trying to put one together. Given the current conversation
> >> Greg has brought up about syzkaller bugs needing more attention, I
> >> figured this could help fix it if interns are the only ones available
> >> for this task.
> >>
> >> I think it'd help the kernel mentees current and future sink their teeth
> >> quicker into fixing bugs, and less into helping themselves learn what is
> >> needed. This appears to be a big gap that would really help if it were
> >> filled. Resources are heavily abundant for the Linux kernel, but a good
> >> level of curation and maintained resources could help with bug fixing.
> >> Resources look old, but are incredibly insightful. I would have skipped
> >> looking at these resources given my experience with more modern
> >> frameworks and toolkits (which is that it would be best to avoid
> >> outdated ones as APIs change very quickly - but this is not the case
> >> with the kernel)
> >>
> >> I've got links and things but I've been wondering if it made sense to
> >> build on the Kernel Mentees or to build a wiki (and host it) on
> >> something more modern like github.
> >>
> >> I'd love to hear suggestions for how best to go about this, and if
> >> anyone would like to contribute to it too.
> >>
> > I would love to contribute. I've started my blog on:
> >
> > https://fuzzybritches0.github.io/
> >
> > If any of these entries I made are helpful, I'd love to help you
> > incorporate them into your wiki. I'd also love to get feedback on these
> > entries. Count me in.
> >
> > thanks and kind regards
> >
> > Kurt Manucredo
> >
> (Resent to the mailing list; first email went only to Kurt - that was a mistake)
> 
> Hey Kurt,
> 
> If you join the discord, I guess we're having a fairly casual
> conversation of how things should go. I'm writing up the structure of
> the wiki at the moment and I'll have it up for pull requests in a bit:)
> 
I've joined discord and the dedicated channel, my username is
fuzzybritches. I hope I'm doing everything right, I'm new to discord.

kind regards

Kurt Manucredo
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