Re: [PATCH docs] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:24:38 +0200 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Also: It's totally normal that commercial vendor contribute basic
> drivers with known problems and missing features (some of which will
> never be implemented). The latter will be considered a "bug" for quite a
> few users that read this. Those suddenly thus might becomes something
> they now "must" fix, which leads to questions: how fast? just in
> mainline, or in stable, too?

If we try to fend off anyone who doesn't understand common meaning 
of words the document will be very long and painful to read.

> All this also opens questions like "what counts as bug report" -- I'd
> assume users that find and read this will expect that a report in
> bugzilla.kernel.org is one maintainers "must" respond to. But I assume
> you only meant bugs reports by mail or in trackers the MAINTAINERS file
> mentions?

I don't want to be too prescriptive, subsystems will vary.

> And overall I don't really like the way how handling of regressions is
> described in that section, as they afaics are expected to be handled
> with a higher priority than bugs.

Me neither, FWIW. I tried a couple of times to weave that information
in but I can't come up with a way of doing that without breaking the
logical flow. Could just be me. Edit to what I sent to Krzysztof would
be appreciated if you have one in mind.