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

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Date:   Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:15:37 -0800
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
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 08, 2018 at 09:32:18AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:32 AM Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

> > 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.

To me that sounds like a document aimed at contributors rather than
maintainers.

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