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"Kernel Janitors專案" 對初入門的核心駭客而言是個好的起點. 這個專案維護一個尚未完成(TODO)清單 想出力的人可以從那挑一份合適他們能力的作業. 作業主要是清理程式碼所以任何人可以深入核心而不需要瞭解所有詳細特殊的技術. 那也是個好的學習如何(或如何不)提交核心修補程式的起點.

此專案有自己的郵件論壇 (http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#kernel-janitors) 且維護者 (目前是 Alexey Dobriyan) 也不定時製作修補程式. 其修補程式可以在 http://coderock.org/kj/ 找到.

UPDATES:

There's a newer Kernel Janitors page at http://code.google.com/p/kernel-janitors/, but it seems that some of the content from above hasn't been moved over, so you should look at both sites.

There's an article, Fixing the Kernel Janitors Project, with criticisms and suggestions about the project. Some suggestions to kernel newbies:

• don't focus so much on fixing whitespace problems
• avoid fixing compiler warnings because the goal is to fix the CAUSE of the warnings (which is usually not obvious), not just to make the warnings go away
• test the kernel on a wide variety of hardware and submit good bug reports
• acquire an obscure (i.e., not yet supported) piece of hardware and write a driver for it (might require some mentoring though)