linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

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Date:	Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:01:02 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Lang <david@...g.hm>,
	<ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

On 13-07-16 07:38 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 16:12 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> 

[...]

> 
>>   We need to define what behavior we want
>> from both maintainers and patch submitters.  E.g. "No regressions" and
>> "don't break userspace"
> 
> Yes, those do need to be documented.

Actually, they are already documented. See "Regressions" section in the
file Documentation/development-process/4.Coding

Paul.
--

> 
> 
>>  and "no personal attacks".
> 
> I actually disagree with this. What I would say this instead: "try to
> keep it technical and focus on the code. If you are upset at someone,
> think twice before hitting send. But if you really think this is the
> only way to deal with the situation, then that's your call, and you get
> to deal with the consequences."
> 
> I don't think changing peoples behavior is going to work. It wont. You
> don't want to change who you are, others don't want to change who they
> are. Deal with it. But what we can do is just try to educate people on
> what policies are needed to be a maintainer and code submitter (there is
> documentation already on some of this), and then point it to people. If
> people continue to ignore those after being shown, then yes, personal
> attacks are then in order.
> 
> 
>>   That needs to be
>> written down somewhere, and it isn't.  If it's documented somewhere,
>> point me to the file in Documentation.  Hint: it's not there.
> 
> Well, SubmittingPatches is there, but we should have a MaintainerRules
> or something.
> 
>>
>> That is the problem.
> 
> We can always use better documentation.
> 
> -- Steve
> 
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