From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D848CC32771 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B017121835 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728668AbgAWAXZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:23:25 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:53600 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728655AbgAWAXZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:23:25 -0500 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 96880378; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:23:24 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:23:23 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a document on how to contribute to the documentation Message-ID: <20200122172323.5147ea8b@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20200122235302.GD4675@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20200122162030.5b789232@lwn.net> <20200122235302.GD4675@bombadil.infradead.org> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:53:02 -0800 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > One thing which I feel should be mentioned > is the hard work put in by hundreds of kernel maintainers who have > written kernel-doc and nobody has done the trivial work to actually > include those source files in an rst file, so all that documentation > is being ignored. A great task that's a step up from "fixing typos" is > "find documentation that's not currently in a kernel book and add it". > Even if it's just dumped into a "misc" section, having (eg) kvmalloc() > documentation in a kernel book is a benefit. Yeah, I'd thought about putting that in, then kind of forgot about it. I'll add a paragraph. > Do you want to preemptively mention the Oxford comma here? It's true, there is only One True Way Of Comma Placement, so we want to be sure people get it right...:) Thanks, jon