Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments)

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

[Andrew Morton - Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:46:44AM -0700]
| On Wed, 21 May 2008 08:09:39 -0400 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
| 
| > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:32:06AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
| > > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:50:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
| > > > Oh, what a marvellous way to encourage new contributors that was. Thank
| > > > you so much.
| > > > 
| > > > For the record: Al speaks only for himself and a lack of expressed
| > > > disagrement from others should not be taken as agreement.
| > > 
| > > But I'd like to second the opinion.  This is getting a little too far.
| > > We should rather try to at least enforce very basic standards a lot of
| > > the crap shoved in doesn't follow instead of wanking around about exact
| > > placement of whitespaces.
| > 
| > The real question is whether people who are wanking about whitespace
| > and spelling fixes in comments will graduate to writing real, useful
| > patches.  If they won't, there's no point to encouraging them.
| > 
| 
| Guys, get a clue.  It doesn't matter what that person did.  It is the
| effect upon *all* other potential developers which is so damaging here.
| Not upon this individual.
| 

Btw, we have CodingStyle, SubmittingPatches and other, but why don't
we have something like KernelNewbieGuide? Don't get me wrong, but
there could be written all rules about - what is good to do, what is bad.
So a newbiew who wants to be usefull for kernel could read it and decide
what should be done. /Don't beat me ;) / And of course I know about
kernelnewbie.org but this (even quite short) document could help I think.

		- Cyrill -