linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] docs: admin-guide: Sort the "unordered guides" to avoid merge conflicts

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Message-ID: <20191015123801.0ba2d123@lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:38:01 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        Shobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] docs: admin-guide: Sort the "unordered guides"
 to avoid merge conflicts

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 19:11:09 +0200
Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net> wrote:

> Since the "unordered guides" linked in admin-guide/index.rst are not
> supposed to be in any particular order, let's sort them alphabetically
> to avoid the risk of merge conflicts by spreading newly added lines more
> evenly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>

I've applied this as being better than nothing, but I would *really* be
pleased if somebody could spend some time imposing a more interesting
order on those unordered guides.  Making readers pick through a long list
of random documents isn't all that friendly.

(The rest of the set is applied as well).

Thanks,

jon