In many ways, regressions are the most critical form of bugs. A regression is a bug which was introduced in a certain kernel release, whereas the same functionality worked in releases beforehand. Kernel regressions: This query lists all open regression bugs.This is the main buglist you will be working from. Gentoo kernel bugs: This query lists all open bugs assigned to except ebuild submissions, tracker bugs, and 2.4 bugs.For each of the following queries, please scroll to the bottom of the resultant buglist and use the "Remember search" functionality to save each one: Links to these saved searches are present on the bottom of every bugzilla screen. You can perform a bugzilla query, and save it with a user-defined name for quick access later. I suggest you set up a mail filter to move these mails to their own folder.Īnother useful feature is bugzilla saved searches. To do this, go to bugzilla email preferences and add to your user watch list. You should now configure bugzilla to send you copies of all bugmails related to kernel maintenance. Make sure you have your own personal account. The bulk of Gentoo kernel maintenance happens on bugzilla - bug reports, keyword requests, feature requests, etc. The primary kernel maintainers are Mike Pagano (IRC username mpagano) and Alice Ferrazzi (IRC username alicef). We do want to help you, since hopefully that will result in you helping us in the future! If we don't respond, ask again another time. While learning, please ask us questions! This is the best way to learn. The Gentoo website has more information on IRC channels. Please be active on our IRC channel, #gentoo-kernel ( webchat) on Libera.Chat. I don't expect you to have any need to write to the LKML initially, but do be sure to read this FAQ before you send your first email there. It contains lots of information about how the mailing list is used and the kernel community in general. You may also be interested in reading the LKML FAQ. To subscribe to the LKML, send an email to with the following in the body of the email:ĬODE Message body subscribe linux-kernel YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS I try to keep at least the most recent 30,000 emails around. It becomes very useful later on when you are researching bugs reported by users on Gentoo's bugzilla. Keep the LKML archived in its own folder in a good mail client. It's also interesting to read the release announcements from Linus and the -stable crew, and Andrew Morton's -mm release announcements to keep up with what's going on in the kernel community. You shouldn't even attempt to read it all, but glance through the subject lines every day or two, and keep an eye out for topics that interest you. You should also subscribe to the linux-kernel mailing list (LKML). I will announce modifications to this document on that list. Subscription instructions can be found here, and archives can be found here. Please subscribe to the gentoo-kernel mailing list. 4.2 Reporting bugs on the kernel bugzilla.
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