Re: Confirmation on next steps for contribution

Samuel Abraham <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.outreachy
Message-ID <CADYq+fYrDqmFS=+U2jhGAqNr19rp1ChFaog6C=o5DCQFS7FxCA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM Julia Lawall <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Wed, 26 Mar 2025, Samuel Abraham wrote:
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> > Hello Julia,
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> > I hope you are having a great day.
> > I just wanted to confirm the next steps for our contribution.
> > Do we send more clean-up patches and how many accepted ones
> > should we have before we can move forward?
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> Previously we asked for 20, but there are not that many opportunities at
> the moment, so I would say 5.  Basically, you should get your patches
> acepted on the first try.  And try to look around to find more interesting

Okay thank you for your response.
So do you mean we should try to get our patches accepted with
the very first version we send? Like it should be accepted without any
corrections?

Also how do we know when a patch has been accepted. Is it when the "Reviewed-by"
tag has been added by a reviewer?

> things to do.  How does the code look different from other Linux kernel
> code?
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> I will post some more pointers to suggested cleanups on the weekend.

Okay thank you for this

Adekunle.
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