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([2600:8803:e7e4:500:7777:83a7:41ea:5906]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5614622812f47-4b2906a3edesm2241478b6e.0.2026.08.17.17.31.45 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:31:45 -0500 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [RFC] Maintainer entry profile/contributor guide for IIO To: Joshua Crofts , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, jic23@kernel.org, andy@kernel.org, nuno.sa@analog.com References: <20260817111825.000063f6@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US From: David Lechner In-Reply-To: <20260817111825.000063f6@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 8/17/26 4:18 AM, Joshua Crofts wrote: > Hi all, > > I was browsing lore and checked out the ksummit mailing list, where the > topic about guiding new contributors arose [1]. New contributors tend to > make the same mistakes when sending patches, causing reviewers to point > these out all the time over and over again. For IIO, this is definitely the > case (I myself send an email telling people not to send a v2 in reply to a > v1 several times a week). Other subsystems have a "Maintainer entry profile" > that contains subsystem-specific process info (DAMON for example [2]) and > (sometimes even [3]) a document describing the code style of the subsystem > (this would be a great place where to mention things like not using > kernel.h in new drivers etc.). I'm happy to create both of the documents > but it's always great to hear other people's ideas! I think there are plenty of new contributor (to the kernel) guides out there. People just don't read them. So I don't think we need another. Nothing wrong with trying to make the existing guides more clear/easy to understand though. A subsystem doc that has our code style quirks and idioms would be helpful though as I don't think that has every been written down in a single place. Especially useful now since AI reviewers will read it even if humans don't. > > Second of all, the idea of having a bot that would automatically detect new > contributors (i.e. the email they're submitting the patch with doesn't show > up in `git log --author`) and send an email reminding them of the basic rules > (while also referring to the entry profile mentioned above) sounds like a > great idea, but of course hosting and maintaining are pain points. > > Please let me know what you think of the above ideas! > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/87y0ekm9nw.fsf@trenco.lwn.net/ > [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/mm/damon/maintainer-profile.rst > [3] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches.rst >