linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve development-process book

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Message-ID: <20161018084250.785b1aa2@vento.lan>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:42:50 -0200
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve
 development-process book

Em Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:35:39 +0300
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com> escreveu:

> On Tue, 18 Oct 2016, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com> wrote:
> > Em Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:01:01 +0300
> > Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com> escreveu:
> >  
> >> On Tue, 18 Oct 2016, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:  
> >> > So I raised this topic in talks at both Kernel Recipes and LinuxCon
> >> > Europe, and nobody threw things at me.  I have come to suspect that I'm
> >> > worrying a little too much about it; maybe we should go ahead and move
> >> > the documents and see who screams.    
> >> 
> >> While at it, how about unifying some of the FilenamesInCamelCase,
> >> filenames-with-hyphens, and filenames_with_underscores too...? To at
> >> least move things towards just one of them within one directory.  
> >
> > Sure, let's do it. I would just keep README as README.rst , as people
> > are more used to see readme files on upercases.  
> 
> Right, I guess I'd keep the top level files as-is, and just do this
> within Documentation.

Well IMHO, the most important documentation for an user/admin's guide
is at /README. So, most of its contents (if not all) should be
moved to Documentation/admin-guide.

> 
> > For the rest, what's your preference?
> >
> > 	- FooBar.rst
> > 	- foo_bar.rst
> > 	- foo-bar.rst
> >
> > My personal preference is for "foo-bar".  
> 
> Same here, but I don't mind so much *which* one it is as long as at
> least each directory has consistent naming.

Yeah, my preference here is also not strong... whatever works
best for the others fit to me.

> 
> > Thanks! Life would be very boring if everybody would have the same
> > opinion :) So, feel free to disagree with me. Your views are very 
> > welcome, even when differs from my own :)  
> 
> Thanks, good to check we're on the same page here and not
> antagonizing. :)

:)

> 
> 
> BR,
> Jani.
> 
> 
> 



Thanks,
Mauro