Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Fri Jun 22 2007 - 10:19:44 EST


Markus Rechberger wrote:
> just reading through it and cleaning up some code isn't so difficult
> and can be done by many people -

Doing cleanups is a good way to get into the matter, to become able to
eventually fix bugs of the difficult type.

> if they're allowed/wanted to do so.

Everybody is allowed to submit. But there is a certain degree of both
persistence and adaptability required to get one's first submissions
upstream. However, these qualities are also required to fix difficult bugs.
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Stefan Richter
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