To contribute

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Wed Jan 4 09:09:43 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 11:30:30AM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2017, Swapnil Pathak <p.swapnil at globaledgesoft.com> wrote:
> > I also want to contribute, But I don't know from where to start. Could 
> > you please help me where to start.
> 
> That's easy. Get rid of the disclaimer at the bottom of your mails! :p
> 
> The serious answer really depends on you, and it's hard to give advice
> that works for everyone. That said, learn to configure, build and run
> upstream kernels from git. Find issues that bother you, look at
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org for inspiration. Learn to do git bisect,
> and bisect the issues if they're regressions. Debug them and fix them if
> you can.

There's also a drm janitor wiki page with some ideas for what to do:

https://www.x.org/wiki/DRMJanitors/

Cheers, Daniel

> 
> 
> HTH,
> Jani.
> 
> 
> > Thanks
> >
> > Swapnil
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