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Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:17:39 -0400
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
vishal.l.verma@...el.com, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Maintainer Handbook: Maintainer Entry Profile
Jonathan,
> 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?
I think Documentation/process is the right place for all the common
practices and guidelines for code submission. Documentation is already
pretty big. And based on the discussions in this thread, I think we're
better off enhancing the existing process documents instead of
introducing more places for people to look.
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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