On Friday, January 06, 2012 06:29:10 AM chromaticwt zac wrote:

I want to be a kernel tester. do I just need to download the latest testing
kernel and run it, and report if I come across any errors? or should I be
checking for certain things?

A good start would be to download  [1] and compiling the latest mainline 
kernel  source(s). 

Inside is a Documentation folder. Thats not to mention kernelnewbies.org



[1] http://www.kernel.org/