Re: [Outreachy kernel] Help maintain the First Patch Tutorial

[Karolina Drobnik <karolinadrobnik@gmail.com>]

Hi Julia,

Thanks for taking a look at my changes. I'll update the section
accordingly after getting more feedback, hope it's fine.

On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 12:12 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > The many arguments to get_maintainer.pl cause the output to be in
> > the form of a comma-separated list and cause only the actual
> > maintainers of the affected files to be included. However, for IIO
> > drivers, please also include linux-iio@vger.kernel.org.
>
> I wonder if this sentence is still needed, if we are dropping the
> suggestion to use the --nol argument.

I'd like to still explain what the output would be like. The "actual
maintainers" can also refer to `--nogit-faillback` option that excludes
committers/git information. Can change it to something like "relevant
lists and the actual maintainers..". What do you think?

> > The second step to submitting a patch is to create and send a patch
> > as an email. You cannot send patches as attachments to the mailing
> > list.
>
> This would be better as "You cannot send a patch as an attachment..."

Can correct this, thanks.


Karolina