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

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Message-ID: <71224ff9-98d0-4148-afb8-d35b45519c79@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:55:37 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.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, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux@...mhuis.info, 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.

I'm not super comfortable with all of the musts here but this is
probably fine so

Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>

One note:

> +Maintainers must be human, however, it is not acceptable to add a mailing
> +list or a group email as a maintainer. Trust and understanding are the
> +foundation of kernel maintenance and one cannot build trust with a mailing
> +list.

If you're revising this I'd add a note about the L: tag in MAINTAINERS
here, or possibly just adding a list in addition to humans.  It is
sensible and often helpful for companies to want to get mail copied to a
wider distribution list internally but they're not really what we mean
by list since external people typically can't join them.

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