Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans

Randy.Dunlap
2006-09-21T21:34:34Z

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:37:10 +0200 Diego Calleja wrote:

> El Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:46:04 +0200,
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> escribió:
>
> > Even the kernel Bugzilla that contains only a small subset of all bug
> > reports contains 78 (sic) open bugs reported against 2.6.18-rc kernels [1].
>
> I suspect that not many people is subscribed to the bugzilla mailing list,
> not surprising since the URLs doesn't seem to be in the tree :)
>
> After fixing my english, I wonder if the following patch could be applied...
>
> Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
>
> --- 2.6/Documentation/HOWTO.OLD 2006-09-21 22:14:06.000000000 +0200
> +++ 2.6/Documentation/HOWTO 2006-09-21 22:36:17.000000000 +0200
> @@ -374,6 +374,26 @@ of information is needed by the kernel d
> problem.
>
>
> +Managing bug reports
> +--------------------
> +
> +One of the best ways to put into practice your hacking skills is by fixing
> +bugs reported by other people. Not only you will help to make the kernel
> +more stable, you'll learn to fix real world problems and you will improve
> +your skills, and other developers will be aware of your presence. Fixing
> +bugs is one of the best ways to get merits between other developers, because

s/between/among/ :)

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

> +not many people like wasting time fixing other people's bugs.
> +
> +To work in the already reported bug reports, go to http://bugzilla.kernel.org.
> +If you want to be advised of the future bug reports, you can subscribe to the
> +bugme-new mailing list (only new bug reports are mailed here) or to the
> +bugme-janitor mailing list (every change in the bugzilla is mailed here)
> +
> + http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-new
> + http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-janitors
> +
> +
> +
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~Randy