On Wed, 2 Jul 2025, Ruben Wauters wrote: > Hello > > With the introduction of Robert P.J. Day's janitor scripts, the > kernel janitor mailing list seems to be receiving more activity now. > > I wanted to ask about resources. I know there is a page for kernel > janitors on the kernel newbies project page located here: > https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors However, the above page > appears to be quite out of date, and I'm unsure how relevant the > listed todo items still are. > > There also seems to be a google code page? Google code of course no > longer exists, so I am unsure what the relevance of it is. > > Overall based on activity of the mailing list it doesn't seem like > the kernel janitor project is pretty active. I personally think it > is important however to keep the codebase maintainable, and I do > also think that common resources, techniques etc should be > documented *somewhere*. > > As such, I wanted to ask if there is a common point of documentation > that I do not know of, or whether the newbies page is still the best > resource for it. > > I do think the recent scripts (as well as any other relevant > scripts) should be linked somewhere "official", as they seem > incredibly useful (I've already sent a patch replacing a removed > Kconfig option with the proper one that was missed when the original > one was removed). > > I guess in a way I'm wondering as well on the organisation of the > janitor's project. Is there a leader of the project? maintainers? > It's not exactly a subsystem so it may not make sense, but it does > also seem like it'd be good for newbies if there were people to flag > what should be done or what might be worth investing time into. > > Sorry if this is a bit incoherent, it's a bunch of thoughts I had, I > think for me the janitor project is probably worth a lot of my time > so I wish to get involved a lot more. > > Ruben Wauters As I mentioned, the scripts I've been dishing out were written about 15 years ago, they are not elegant or sophisticated, and I haven't followed whatever happened with the "kernel janitors" effort for about that long. So this is pretty much a, "Hey, here's some stuff I used to do for kernel janitorial work, others are welcome to pick up where I left off." I'll add an introductory section to my wiki page as to what inspired me to start thinking about janitor work, but a lot of it was just perusing the code, noticing patterns of what could be improved, and tackling stuff like that one item at a time. What I'm saying is that no one needs to work on just the stuff I'm putting out there -- use your imagination and ponder what sorts of things could use cleanup. More later. rday
