On 2017-01-05 Frank H wrote:
Happy New Year Trevor! Your links to LMKL relevant patches are saying 'bad gateway' 'website
Hmm, must have been a transient outage... it works for me now. If it still doesn't work for you, maybe something blocking your port 443 access? Can you reach https://muug.ca?
is offline' Is this to say you contribute to the linux kernel? or to Fedora? Looks like a lot of work but rewarding
Hmm, I guess I do "contribute" to the kernel in a matter of speaking :-) I'm by no means a kernel hacker, nor do I submit patches of my own. I guess I'm now a "kernel debugger and tester" :-) (I do have my name/email in the git tree now!)
Same with Fedora: I've very active on Fedora bugzilla. Basically when I hit a bug that impacts me or all the servers I admin, I do all the work to try to isolate the bug and help the actual code authors come to a speedy fix. I find you get better responsiveness (and faster errata released) that way. Instead of saying a nebulous "it crashes sometimes", you say "it crashes but only after XYZABC code commit".
Relevant LMKL patch-for-review here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/4/936 https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/4/946