linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH docs v2] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers

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Message-ID: <2023071832-headstone-chafe-5be9@gregkh>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:34:49 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     corbet@....net, workflows@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux@...mhuis.info, broonie@...nel.org,
        krzk@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH docs v2] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small
 time maintainers

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 08:58:14AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> We appear to have a gap in our process docs. We go into detail
> on how to contribute code to the kernel, and how to be a subsystem
> maintainer. I can't find any docs directed towards the thousands
> of small scale maintainers, like folks maintaining a single driver
> or a single network protocol.
> 
> Document our expectations and best practices. I'm hoping this doc
> will be particularly useful to set expectations with HW vendors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Looks good to me, thanks for writing this up:

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>