linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/2] Documentation/process: Add subsystem/tree handbook

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Message-ID: <CAPcyv4h1ABBz7OaZB5d--fjtwvfrM=TZs7XFCG54PYRm_Fr8WQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 09:32:18 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>, acme@...hat.com,
        frederic@...nel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] Documentation/process: Add subsystem/tree handbook

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:32 AM Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 11:21:33AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 04:05:17PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > > My plumbers schedule is already 100% booked with MCs and other things.
> > > There is no kernel-summit schedule details available as of yet, but it
> > > is already almost certain that I will not have time for anything in that
> > > track anyway :/
>
> > I thought there was a slot already scheduled on the refereed track,
> > "Towards a Linux Kernel Mainainer Handbook" (Tuesday at 4:45pm) for
> > this purpose?
>
> I'm not 100% sure that people will pick up that the topic is about a
> handbook for working with maintainers rather than a handbook for being a
> maintainer from that title...

The intent is a handbook for being a maintainer. However, in the
process of describing how a given sub-system is maintained one also
needs to describe the local rules. So contributors should be able to
glean what matters to a sub-system from a description of how that
sub-system is maintained. In other words the direct audience is
maintainers, but it also hopefully makes the process more transparent
for contributors.