Re: [Question]: Contributing to btrfs

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Hi,

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:09:03PM +0100, Philippe Loctaux wrote:
> I'm new to the mailing list and btrfs in general (I've been using it for
> two weeks on my new arch install) and I'd like to contribute to the code :)

contributions to code are welcome, but please try not to spend too much
time fixing style problems or checkpatch warnings. This may be a good
start to get used to the patch formatting, mails and the feedback loop,
which you seem to understand now.

But otherwise whitespace-only changes are not considered worth the time,
and I don't want to encourage people to do that. My usual answer to that
is at

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Cleanup_projects

"Please note that pure whitespace and style reformatting changes are not
really necessary at this phase of development. They get fixed along
regular changes. Possibly once upon in a while a patch that fixes many
if not all whitespace errors could work, but otherwise it's considered a
noise."
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