From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936911AbYEUU1u (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 16:27:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755433AbYEUU1d (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 16:27:33 -0400 Received: from vena.lwn.net ([206.168.112.25]:53464 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759987AbYEUU1c (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 16:27:32 -0400 To: "Jesper Juhl" Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) Cc: "Cyrill Gorcunov" , rdunlap@xenotime.net, tytso@mit.edu, hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 May 2008 22:06:55 +0200." <9a8748490805211306l50b8411ax4462be18c94ca065@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:27:31 -0600 Message-ID: <32279.1211401651@vena.lwn.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jesper Juhl: > 2008/5/21 Andrew Morton : > > Yes, a general GettingStarted document would probably be useful. > > It would hopefully have more what-to-do content than what-not-to-do. > > I'm in the process of trying to write an initial draft of just such a > document right now. I'll post it once I'm a bit more done (gimme an > hour or two). In theory, that's Documentation/HOWTO. In practice, quite a bit more is needed. I'm actually in the process of writing such a thing as well, with some support from the Linux Foundation. I'll not have it done in an hour or two, though; a version for review in June is more likely... jon