From: Nick Krause Subject: Re: Work on ext4 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:22:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20140725145946.GT1865@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Theodore Ts'o" Return-path: Received: from mail-vc0-f171.google.com ([209.85.220.171]:37035 "EHLO mail-vc0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752495AbaGYPWD (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:22:03 -0400 Received: by mail-vc0-f171.google.com with SMTP id hq11so7577963vcb.30 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:22:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140725145946.GT1865@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:29:49PM -0400, Nick Krause wrote: >> Sorry about my other issues Ted. But if you would like to give >> me a change, I would like to help out on ext4 development. >> Just tell me what I should read before I start helping out:). > > So here's my concern. The patches and questions which you've sent to > LKML seem to indicate either that (a) you are incredibly sloppy, (b) > you're technically not very capable, or (c) you were so enthusiastic > to Make A Difference that you were sending out patches and asking > questions without spending any time to think, test, and spending time > doing research. > > Whichever it is, the worry to me is that you will consume far more of > my time and other developers than the actual effort you will actually > end up contributing. So the "help" ends up sucking away precious > developer time and bandwidth. > > If you can send pointers to actual technical work you've done that > might pursuade folks that you can actually contribute in a positive > fashion, that might be helpful. > > Regards, > > - Ted Ted, I was being sloppy. I screwed up if you want my help still, please let me known. Nick