maintainer profiles

maintainer profiles

[Randy Dunlap]

Hi,

Is there supposed to be a difference (or distinction) in the contents of

Documentation/process/maintainer-handbooks.rst
and
Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
?

Can they be combined into one location?

-- 
~Randy

Re: maintainer profiles

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 17:18:39 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there supposed to be a difference (or distinction) in the contents of
> 
> Documentation/process/maintainer-handbooks.rst
> and
> Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
> ?
> 
> Can they be combined into one location?

Heh, from the 5 entries at maintainer-handbooks.rst:

   maintainer-netdev
   maintainer-soc
   maintainer-soc-clean-dts
   maintainer-tip
   maintainer-kvm-x86

we have 3 of them already there at maintainer-entry-profile.rst:

   $ grep process/ Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
   ../process/maintainer-soc
   ../process/maintainer-soc-clean-dts
   ../process/maintainer-netdev

It sounds to me that moving maintainer-tip and maintainer-kvm-x86
to maintainer-entry-profile.rst would be enough to drop
maintainer-handbooks.rst, keeping them consolidated on a single
place.


Thanks,
Mauro