Re: [PATCH docs] docs: remove the tips on how to submit patches from MAINTAINERS

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes:

> Having "how to submit patches" in MAINTAINTERS seems out of place.
> We have a whole section of documentation about it, duplication
> is harmful and a lot of the text looks really out of date.
>
> Sections 1, 2 and 4 look really, really old and not applicable
> to the modern process.
>
> Section 3 is obvious but also we have build bots now.
>
> Section 5 is a bit outdated (diff -u?!). But I like the part
> about factoring out shared code, so add that to process docs.
>
> Section 6 is unnecessary?
>
> Section 7 is covered by more appropriate docs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/6.Followthrough.rst |  7 ++
>  MAINTAINERS                               | 80 +----------------------
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)

This has been discussed in the past, I'm not sure why we've never done
it.  I totally agree, and will happily apply this unless somebody
objects or beats me to it.

Thanks,

jon