Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:23:40 +1100
From: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Contributing to Linux-wireless drivers.
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 05:14:02PM +0530, Himanshu Jha wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Apologies for that forwarded email which I hurriedly sent without
> editing here!
> 
> I am an undergraduate student in ECE(3rd year) and wish to contribute to linux-wireless
> drivers. I am familiar with the kernel development process and have many
> patches accepted in the past 2 months with variety of tools used such as
> coccinelle, Kasan, smatch, sparse and checkpatch.
> 
> My past contributions can be found here:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/?qt=grep&q=Himanshu+Jha
> 
> Also, James Cameron suggested me to *not self promot* and other useful
> stuff. But I'm not self promoting and the purpose is to avoid the
> initial steps that you generally recommend to a newbie like reading the
> conding guideline, submitting patches, learn Git etc.

Last time I'll try that privately.  Now I'm publically outed for it.
I keep making this mistake.

For completeness, what I had said was;

> > Self promotion is not often acceptable.  For background on
> > culture, see http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

and Himanshu said they wanted to avoid being told the initial steps
again, to which I replied;

> > Good point.  However even as a grey beard, I can still get told
> > these things; it reflects more on them than me.
> >
> > An alternate method would be to say what you have done without
> > using any words that measure or evaluate what you have done.

However, I am curious to know if there will be a GSoC engagement by
Linux Foundation in the linux-wireless scope.  It would be fun to
watch and learn.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.netrek.org/