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chriscool committed Oct 6, 2023
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not quantity! (Also, it takes work to collect the ideas, and it would
be nice to have enough microprojects for everybody.)

### Change only a few files

This means that for a microproject that consists in refactoring or
rewriting a small amount of code, your patch should change only
**ONE** file, or perhaps 2 files if they are closely related, like
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script you change. If you change "foo.c" or "foo.h", the title of your
patch should probably start with "foo: ".

### Research existing related work

In general it's a good idea to check on the mailing list archive
([lore.kernel.org](https://lore.kernel.org/git/) and
[Public Inbox](http://public-inbox.org/git/) are your friends) what
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a very good thing to show that you have researched your microproject
and taken into account what you have found.

### After it's done, work on different things

If you've already done a microproject and are itching to do more, then
get involved in other ways, like finding and fixing other problems in
the code, or improving the documentation or code comments, or helping
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