Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE-TOPIC] Documentation

[Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>]

On 2015/7/14 2:11, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:42:44 +0000
> Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:37:50PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
>>> I agree that newbies shouldn't write documentation.
>>
>> I semi-disagree.  Assuming you meant newbies here as you defined below.
> 
> This really shows what the issue with new recruits is all about. Every
> maintainer is different. The Linux kernel is the largest and fastest
> open source project in the world and its amazing how much that everyone
> does agree on. But every maintainer has a slightly different
> perspective of how to do something, and this can be really aggravating
> to a new comer. As it's been said lots of times, maintaining the Linux
> kernel is much like herding cats. And this burden also weighs down on
> new comers, as they try to figure out which type of cat they are
> dealing with. And all cats just happen to be extremely annoying to deal
> with ;-)
> 
> The best we can do is all to try to be patient with those that contact
> us.
> 

I think it's more often that we just ignore them rather than being impatient...