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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a document on how to contribute to the documentation
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:23:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200122172323.5147ea8b@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200122235302.GD4675@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:53:02 -0800
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> One thing which I feel should be mentioned
> is the hard work put in by hundreds of kernel maintainers who have
> written kernel-doc and nobody has done the trivial work to actually
> include those source files in an rst file, so all that documentation
> is being ignored.  A great task that's a step up from "fixing typos" is
> "find documentation that's not currently in a kernel book and add it".
> Even if it's just dumped into a "misc" section, having (eg) kvmalloc()
> documentation in a kernel book is a benefit.

Yeah, I'd thought about putting that in, then kind of forgot about it.
I'll add a paragraph.

> Do you want to preemptively mention the Oxford comma here?

It's true, there is only One True Way Of Comma Placement, so we want to be
sure people get it right...:)

Thanks,

jon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-23  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-22 23:20 [PATCH] Add a document on how to contribute to the documentation Jonathan Corbet
2020-01-22 23:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-01-22 23:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-01-22 23:54   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-01-22 23:58     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-01-22 23:59       ` Randy Dunlap
2020-01-23  0:23   ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2020-01-23 10:03 ` Jani Nikula

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