Re: [Outreachy Info] Ask for help finding cleanups

[Mark Heim <questioneight@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 04:49:20PM -0700, Alison Schofield wrote:
> Hi Applicants,
> 
> We want to support you finding cleanups. Today I spent some time
> looking through staging and am working up a small todo list that
> may be useful.

I'm interested in doing the required demo for the kernel. Let
me know what I should do next presupposing there is a list of tasks.

> 
> I posted one such cleanup to Menna because I saw them submit a
> couple of attempts at a first patches.
> 
> I think that Kloudifold, Khadija, and Sumitra are busy iterating on
> their first patches. Keep going! Ask for help finding your second
> patch if needed.
> 
> Anyone else who wants help in finding their first patch, please reach
> out. I imagine their are some folks exploring here, that I haven't
> met on the list yet. 

Hello, that's me! I was originally working on the Outreachy LLVM
project but had short term health problems, and that meant I let
that opportunity get away. 

> 
> Finally, it seems we won't be holding to the traditional 10 cleanup
> patch requirement this round! Please continue your efforts and I'll
> redirect you towards projects after a 'few' cleanup patches are
> accepted into staging.
> 

I have some catching up to do. I dug through a little more
than a page of Linux mailing list messages but was able to
glean a bunch of things that were helpful. These are things like
patch creation best practices, posting on code style, joining
a mailing list, and documentation.

Hope to hear from everyone later.

(here's a question: is it best practice to include 100 percent
of the message pre-insertion of comments, or can I delete some
of the original message?)

> Thanks,
> Alison
> 
> 
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