Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 2/3] Maintainer Handbook: Maintainer Entry Profile

Martin K. Petersen
2019-10-01T18:18:33Z

Jonathan,

> Thus far, the maintainer guide is focused on how to *be* a maintainer.
> This document, instead, is more about how to deal with specific
> maintainers. So I suspect that Documentation/maintainer might be the
> wrong place for it.
>
> Should we maybe place it instead under Documentation/process, or even
> create a new top-level "book" for this information?

I think Documentation/process is the right place for all the common
practices and guidelines for code submission. Documentation is already
pretty big. And based on the discussions in this thread, I think we're
better off enhancing the existing process documents instead of
introducing more places for people to look.

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering