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Getting the right kind of contributionsGetting the right kind of contributionsPosted May 28, 2008 18:56 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)Parent article: Getting the right kind of contributions
I don't know the answer. But I do know that a dev team so antagonistic to potential contributors bodes ill. This looks quite similar to the "Linus Crisis" which led to BitKeeper, and eventually to git. Except that this time it is not just Linus who is overloaded. Dumping large amounts of complex information into an unstructured medium like a mailing list is, perhaps, not the best solution.
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Getting the right kind of contributions Posted May 29, 2008 7:38 UTC (Thu) by Wummel (subscriber, #7591) [Link] Automatic filtering (or ranking) will help with the mail flood. Mutt has a nice scoring system, or you can resort to some procmail filter rules.Oh, and there is always LWN highlighting and summarizing recent discussions on high-volume lists like the kernel mailing list. I miss Zack Browns Kernel news though :/
Zack's kernel news Posted May 30, 2008 15:08 UTC (Fri) by southey (subscriber, #9466) [Link] Perhaps read Linux Pro magazine (http://www.linuxpromagazine.com)?
Linux Pro Magazine Posted Jun 1, 2008 20:08 UTC (Sun) by jlokier (guest, #52227) [Link] Thank you! That link quickly lead me to announcement of the new list <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>, to which I am now happily subscribed. Perhaps there was an announcement on linux-kernel. But I burned out on linux-kernel a few years ago: simply too much traffic to have any energy left after keeping up with it, even skimming for the bits relevant to me. I was sad to be out of the loop at first, but the increased energy for other things soon made up for it. I've always been amazed at folks who seem to keep up with linux-kernel _and_ have time/energy to actually do kernel development.
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