From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341143C6 for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 19:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f52.google.com (mail-ee0-f52.google.com [74.125.83.52]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 288CB1FD49 for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 19:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f52.google.com with SMTP id e53so4080427eek.39 for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 12:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Levente Kurusa Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 21:50:11 +0200 From: Levente Kurusa To: Greg KH Message-ID: <20140511195011.GD2527@linux.com> References: <20140511053037.GQ12708@titan.lakedaemon.net> <536FBA0E.5090301@gmail.com> <20140511190752.GC2527@linux.com> <20140511192630.GA14115@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="a+b56+3nqLzpiR9O" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140511192630.GA14115@kroah.com> Cc: Jason Cooper , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] hobbyist recruiting List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --a+b56+3nqLzpiR9O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 09:16:02PM +0200, Levente Kurusa wrote: > > Of course, the Eudyptula challenge did bring some new developers, > > but as far as I see most of them posted only one patch/patchset. >=20 > How do you know who is doing this challenge and who isn't? I see a lot > of new people coming in with multiple sets of patches for cleanups and > good fixes over the past month or so. Trying to track where they > actually come from is nothing I really care about, and is probably > impossible. I've been thinking about the people who have said so in their emails. >=20 > If you track the number of unique people I take patches from, it's > going up, as is our number of unique contributors to the kernel overall. > It's been constantly increasing for the past 8 years, ever since I > started tracking the kernel development statistics. >=20 > > Maybe, there is a way so that they will stay and work more? >=20 > I have loads of work for people to do if they want to do it: > drivers/staging/*/TODO >=20 I talk from my own experiences. I gave a talk recently and after the talk people asked me how could they start. The problem, they say, is that there really is no central TODO list. Maybe there could be a=20 Documentation/NewcomersStartHere-like file that would list for instance the TODO files in drivers/staging? It's nothing big, but would certainly help people find their ways. > > Keep them somehow in the game, i.e. badges? Mozilla's Open Badges? >=20 > Gamifaction? Really? No. >=20 Fedora is doing something like this as well. Thanks, Levente Kurusa. --a+b56+3nqLzpiR9O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTb9RzAAoJELBqK2lO9dZBDdUIALHyUUx/7E8s2CdnRkXkyPUF /8BDW2WTqN0OBpltL+zhq9cLMW8z5jl/yJWdUOyip40jf1GwuXeC6MBUwrHX42lO S+lJviDaCQic9mMqQKS/xCkBMEsn3DmrXvb3jFmAdYYy9hObzEAVjUeeD/sD4aqo Vouyl9lELkZacZmRTWrQ81pgE8PxNvmF/fa7LFiS/HHdOWg4OtDH/YmsS4iG77Sw JfAgvSg9lb0Ni+bDKf8v0Gyw5wNVHuzzgSNIfrG2eKb4AI3i19dWiyM3+tuVbcF3 8KTM08lwhz0sOf4g4MAID+YFGTU5YsLQaEksTveooC5eULmKBDw/odC8zmevIy8= =O261 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a+b56+3nqLzpiR9O--