From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261950AbULCEbN (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:31:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261954AbULCEbN (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:31:13 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:3792 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261950AbULCEbL (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:31:11 -0500 Message-ID: <41AFEB48.60800@osdl.org> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:27:52 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ram mohan CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Contribute - How to References: <20041203042003.57961.qmail@web90007.mail.scd.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041203042003.57961.qmail@web90007.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ram mohan wrote: > Hi, > I am willing to contribute to the development of Linux > kernel. I googled a bit and found that I should join > the list and then I can go ahead. > I would like to know. > 1. What are the features currently being worked upon? It's all over the map: Large-systems performance & scalability. Embedded. Desktop issues. Journaling + extents-based filesystems. Drivers (new development in Infiniband and iscsi). VM fixes. Processor scheduling improvements. IO scheduler improvements. Fixing bugs. :) > 2. Are there any things-to-do lists maintained? There are by some projects, others are more informal and just discuss TODO on a mailing list. > 3. How are new features selected? a. scratch your favorite itch or b. what someone pays for What do you want to work on? > 4. Can I suggest new features? Of course. But part of the Linux culture is that ideas/suggestions don't carry much weight. It's sometimes phrased as: Shut up and code. or Show us the code. so send patches too. :) -- ~Randy