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  Debian kernel contributions Romain Perier <romain.perier@gmail.com> - 2018-04-24 23:30 +0200
    Re: Debian kernel contributions Ozgur Kara <o@zgur.org> - 2018-04-26 10:30 +0200
      Re: Debian kernel contributions Romain Perier <romain.perier@gmail.com> - 2018-04-26 15:00 +0200
    Re: Debian kernel contributions Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> - 2018-04-27 14:10 +0200
      Re: Debian kernel contributions Romain Perier <romain.perier@gmail.com> - 2018-04-29 21:10 +0200

#60747 — Debian kernel contributions

Hello,

My name is Romain, I am an upstream linux contributor and I would like
to contribute on downstream projects like Debian. In my free time, I
love hacking (and beer too! but that's another business :p) . I would
want to focus on kernel development and perhaps a bit of kernel
packaging too.


I have discussed with Vincent Bernat on IRC, he redirected me to this
ML. I am also on IRC (with the nick "rpr"), I am only connected to
#debian-kernel for now.

I would glad to help, what would you recommend ?

Thanks,
Romain

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#60756

25.04.2018, 00:21, "Romain Perier" <romain.perier@gmail.com>:
> Hello,

Hello Romain,

you are welcome to the Debian country,  are you reading help debian? this could be the first step:

https://www.debian.org/intro/help

I think you should check out the fixed security issue and debugging bugs and be a member of a Alioth group.

https://bugs.debian.org/

Regards

Ozgur

> My name is Romain, I am an upstream linux contributor and I would like
> to contribute on downstream projects like Debian. In my free time, I
> love hacking (and beer too! but that's another business :p) . I would
> want to focus on kernel development and perhaps a bit of kernel
> packaging too.
>
> I have discussed with Vincent Bernat on IRC, he redirected me to this
> ML. I am also on IRC (with the nick "rpr"), I am only connected to
> #debian-kernel for now.
>
> I would glad to help, what would you recommend ?
>
> Thanks,
> Romain

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#60757

Hello,

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I have started to read this documentation
and the one about the "developer corner", already (not finished yet).
I have also started to look into existing bugs on
http://bugs.debian.org/src:linux, I have replied to my first bug (I
have realized that the form was wrong later, sorry for that)

I have started to look into https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel and
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team.

You mean an alioth group on https://alioth.debian.org ? Ok, I will
take a look thanks.

For now, I want to focus on kernel related stuffs :)

Do you have current topics where I could help ?

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Romain

2018-04-26 10:08 GMT+02:00 Ozgur Kara <o@zgur.org>:
>
>
> 25.04.2018, 00:21, "Romain Perier" <romain.perier@gmail.com>:
>> Hello,
>
> Hello Romain,
>
> you are welcome to the Debian country,  are you reading help debian? this could be the first step:
>
> https://www.debian.org/intro/help
>
> I think you should check out the fixed security issue and debugging bugs and be a member of a Alioth group.
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/
>
> Regards
>
> Ozgur
>
>> My name is Romain, I am an upstream linux contributor and I would like
>> to contribute on downstream projects like Debian. In my free time, I
>> love hacking (and beer too! but that's another business :p) . I would
>> want to focus on kernel development and perhaps a bit of kernel
>> packaging too.
>>
>> I have discussed with Vincent Bernat on IRC, he redirected me to this
>> ML. I am also on IRC (with the nick "rpr"), I am only connected to
>> #debian-kernel for now.
>>
>> I would glad to help, what would you recommend ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Romain

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#60762

Du schriebst in gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Romain, I am an upstream linux contributor and I would like
> to contribute on downstream projects like Debian. In my free time, I
> love hacking (and beer too! but that's another business :p) . I would
> want to focus on kernel development and perhaps a bit of kernel
> packaging too.
>
> I have discussed with Vincent Bernat on IRC, he redirected me to this
> ML. I am also on IRC (with the nick "rpr"), I am only connected to
> #debian-kernel for now.
>
> I would glad to help, what would you recommend ?

We have a huge backlog of open, old bug reports. One good way to
get familiar with Debian maintenance is to go through old bugs,
ping the reporters if those are still current (or even reproducible)
and close useless reports.

Eventually you'll find some bugs which are still unfixed in current
kernels, so they could be forwarded to the attention of the relevant
subsystem maintainers.

You might also run into bugs fixed upstream which are not fixed in
our stable release. If the patches fixing these bugs are abiding
the stable kernel guidelines, consider forwarding them to stable@.

If you notice any bugs suggesting changes to the kernel configs
or if you see anything worth changing in our packaging, consider
create a pull request on salsa.debian.org.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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#60776

2018-04-27 14:08 GMT+02:00 Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>:
> Du schriebst in gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel:
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Romain, I am an upstream linux contributor and I would like
>> to contribute on downstream projects like Debian. In my free time, I
>> love hacking (and beer too! but that's another business :p) . I would
>> want to focus on kernel development and perhaps a bit of kernel
>> packaging too.
>>
>> I have discussed with Vincent Bernat on IRC, he redirected me to this
>> ML. I am also on IRC (with the nick "rpr"), I am only connected to
>> #debian-kernel for now.
>>
>> I would glad to help, what would you recommend ?
>
> We have a huge backlog of open, old bug reports. One good way to
> get familiar with Debian maintenance is to go through old bugs,
> ping the reporters if those are still current (or even reproducible)
> and close useless reports.
>
> Eventually you'll find some bugs which are still unfixed in current
> kernels, so they could be forwarded to the attention of the relevant
> subsystem maintainers.
>
> You might also run into bugs fixed upstream which are not fixed in
> our stable release. If the patches fixing these bugs are abiding
> the stable kernel guidelines, consider forwarding them to stable@.
>
> If you notice any bugs suggesting changes to the kernel configs
> or if you see anything worth changing in our packaging, consider
> create a pull request on salsa.debian.org.
>
> Cheers,
>         Moritz


Hello,

Okay, I will get familiar with Debian by browsing BTS and help to do
some triaging.
If I find interesting patches attached to a bug, or interesting
upstream patch, security patch or change to do in the package,
I will propose a merge request on Salsa. I will also ping the
reporters, according to the status of the bug.

Thanks for your feedback,
Regards,
Romain

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