From 3f27100872b21e4cc70d07b96eeb3611b30bce63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diego Calleja Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:27:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] HOWTO: mention bughunting Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/HOWTO | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/HOWTO') diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index 1d6560413cc5..d6f3dd1a3464 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 ------------- -- cgit v1.2.1