linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Maintainer Entry Profiles

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Date:   Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:41:16 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Steve French <stfrench@...rosoft.com>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Maintainer Entry Profiles

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 7:51 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:59:42 -0800
> Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
>
> > Changes since v2 [1]:
> > - Drop any consideration for coding style concerns in the profile. It
> >   was a minor aspect of the proposal that generated the bulk of the
> >   feedback on v2. Lets make progress on the rest.
> >
> > - Clarify that the "Submit Checklist Addendum" can also include details
> >   that submitters need to take into account before even beginning to
> >   craft a patch. This is in response to the RISC-V use case of
> >   declaring specification readiness as a patch gate, and is now also used
> >   by the libnvdimm subsystem to clarify details about ACPI NVDIMM Device
> >   Specific Method specifications. (Paul)
> >
> > - Non-change from v2: Kees had asked for a common directory for all
> >   profiles to live, but Mauro noted that this could be handled later
> >   with some scripting to post-process the MAINTAINERS file, or otherwise
> >   converting MAINTAINERS to ReST.
> >
> > - Clarify the cover letter to focus on the contributor focused
> >   Maintainer Entry Profiles, and defer discussion of a maintainer
> >   focused Handbook.
>
> OK, some notes...
>
> I wish you'd done this against docs-next, that would have saved me
> resolving a few conflicts on the MAINTAINERS file.
>
> I thought we'd agreed to move this to the process book?  That said, I now
> wonder about that...today I read the document as information for
> maintainers on how to create their profile, so its location in the
> maintainers manual is appropriate.
>
> There were a number RST issues and warnings that I fixed up with the
> following add-on patch; it was mostly a matter of adding blank lines where
> needed.
>
> One other warning resulted from the nvdimm profile document not being
> linked into the TOC tree.  I've added a TOC section to the new document to
> bring these things together for now.  This is almost certainly not what we
> want in the longer term.
>
> It was tempting to ask for this stuff to be fixed up, but I didn't want to
> delay this work any longer.  So it's applied to docs-next; unless something
> explodes in the very near future, I intend to push this for 5.5.

Apologies for all of the above. I rushed it without considering the
docs submission basics. Thanks for moving this forward.