From: Diego Calleja Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:49 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] HOWTO: mention bughunting X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~592 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f27100872b21e4cc70d07b96eeb3611b30bce63;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] HOWTO: mention bughunting Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index 1d6560413c..d6f3dd1a34 100644 --- a/Documentation/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO @@ -375,6 +375,26 @@ of information is needed by the kernel developers to help track down the problem. +Managing bug reports +-------------------- + +One of the best ways to put into practice your hacking skills is by fixing +bugs reported by other people. Not only you will help to make the kernel +more stable, you'll learn to fix real world problems and you will improve +your skills, and other developers will be aware of your presence. Fixing +bugs is one of the best ways to earn merit amongst the developers, because +not many people like wasting time fixing other people's bugs. + +To work in the already reported bug reports, go to http://bugzilla.kernel.org. +If you want to be advised of the future bug reports, you can subscribe to the +bugme-new mailing list (only new bug reports are mailed here) or to the +bugme-janitor mailing list (every change in the bugzilla is mailed here) + + http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-new + http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-janitors + + + Mailing lists -------------