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Job opening: kernel bug managerJob opening: kernel bug managerPosted May 1, 2007 15:44 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: Job opening: kernel bug manager by smitty_one_each Parent article: Job opening: kernel bug manager
see the discussion n the kernel list (a huge thread followng up the 2.6.21 release, subject 2.6.21)
many people feel that the job of noticing bugs, figuring out who to send them to, and pestering people (politely) until they get a response is something that a person with the right skills can do after only a few months of reading the kernel list to see who's involved with what.
this doesn't sound like the vertical learning curve that you are suggesting.
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Job opening: kernel bug manager Posted May 1, 2007 20:55 UTC (Tue) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link] Having done exactly that for GNOME (a community which, AFAICT, is more tolerant of newbies than LKML) it isn't easy. It requires a fairly deft political sense (if you irritate people, they flip the bozo bit, and it is really hard to get them to listen to you again) as well as good technical judgment (requires good engineering taste more than actual ability to read code, I found.) The combination of both of those is rare- if you have a deaf political ear, or poor engineering sense, years of reading mailing lists won't help you.
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