Messages in this thread | | | From | Dan Williams <> | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2019 18:41:46 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Maintainer Handbook: Maintainer Entry Profile |
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 12:13 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote: > > Hi, Dan, > > A month or so ago I wrote... > > > > See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst for more details, > > > and a follow-on example profile for the libnvdimm subsystem. > > > > Thus far, the maintainer guide is focused on how to *be* a maintainer. > > This document, instead, is more about how to deal with specific > > maintainers. So I suspect that Documentation/maintainer might be the > > wrong place for it. > > > > Should we maybe place it instead under Documentation/process, or even > > create a new top-level "book" for this information? > > Unless I missed it, I've not heard back from you on this. I'd like to get > this stuff pulled in for 5.5 if possible... would you object if I were to > apply your patches, then tack on a move over to the process guide?
Sorry for the delay.
Yes, the process book is a better location now that this information is focused on being supplemental guidelines for submitters rather than a "how to maintain X subsystem" guide.
I do want to respin this without the Coding Style addendum to address the specific feedback there, but other than that I'm happy to see this move forward.
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