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> I.e. I might propose a a slightly controversial topic, going a bit the 
> other direction than the whole "motivating newcomers" discussion: how to 
> get rid of useless submissions that are slowing maintainers down?
> 

Do we really have this issue?

If we are encouraging more people to get involved in kernel contribution, we'll
sure occasionally see some patches with little value, but I don't think we are
suffering from this.

And When we see a patch of this kind, it won't take us much time to tell the
newbie why the patch isn't appropriate, and then he probably won't do this again.

> Should we stop publishing all the statistics? I believe there is no 
> question that those are one of the primary drivers of useless submissions. 
> Once maintainers get DoSed by submissions of wrong and/or useless patches 
> that eat non-negligible amount of their time, we're in trouble.
>