OSDL to fund a kernel tech writer [LWN.net]

OSDL to fund a kernel tech writer

Posted Nov 9, 2006 15:54 UTC (Thu) by riel (subscriber, #3142)
In reply to: OSDL to fund a kernel tech writer by MisterIO
Parent article: OSDL to fund a kernel tech writer

There is some kernel documentation on the Kernel Newbies site, but if you have ideas for additional content I would be interested in hearing them.

Also, the content on the Kernel Newbies site is available under a creative commons license, and can be used as part of other documentation. The goal is to teach as many people as possible. If you have contributions to make, you can create yourself a login and help editing any time, since kernelnewbies.org is a wiki.

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OSDL to fund a kernel tech writer

Posted Nov 10, 2006 18:38 UTC (Fri) by MisterIO (subscriber, #36192) [Link]

Yeah,I know there's kernelnewbies,there's kerneltrap,there was kerneltraffic,so why there's a Documentation folder in the Linux tree?Take it away if it's so useless there!And production code isn't good example code.Example code should be placed in the same folder where there are the documents for the same argument and it should be a focused peace of code,not too small and not too long.And it could be helpful here too!I can't even see why don't you want it?How could it be a problem to have good focused example code in he kernel?And don't tell that you started programming looking at the source code of something like glibc.Everyone starts with something like printf("Hello, world"); and then takes the next step looking at something more complex.The kernel is a really complex peace of code;you can't say : look at it and then start coding.Well you can,but that won't be a good help for newbies and kerneljanitors is not really better.It's mostly a way for kernel developers to leave to others the boring work!Anyway maybe I'm wrong,but this is what I think!