Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:02:20 -0800 | | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | | Subject | Re: Fixing 2.6.0's broken documentation references |
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On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:48:57 +1100 (EST) Michael Still <mikal@stillhq.com> wrote:
| On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Thomas Molina wrote: | | > I agree that having a documentation maintainer would be a good idea. Hans | > could volunteer or I could if no one else wants it. Whoever does it | > though, needs some assurance that patches won't be dropped on the floor. | | I would think that any such maintainer would also have to deal with | kernel-doc, and making sure all of those scripts work / don't produce | errors. I got a bunch of patches into the late 2.5 cycle to deal with | that, but someone needs to keep that stuff working. | | I'm happy to keep playing with those scripts, if other people are happy | with that. | | My point is that documentation is more complex than just keeping the | comments in the source pointing at the right places -- there is a bunch of | infrastructure there as well. | | On the dropped patch front, I had a lot of success getting patches into | the kernel via the Trivial Patch Monkey. Given the menial nature of this | sort of work, wouldn't this best be done by the janitors and sending | patches to trivial?
I agree, using kernel-janitors or trivial patch monkey should be sufficient and acceptable.
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