From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7F4C433E6 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 23:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE25B2071B for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 23:04:08 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key) header.d=cmpwn.com header.i=@cmpwn.com header.b="G9Qy7xAL" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725993AbgHaXEI (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:04:08 -0400 Received: from mail.cmpwn.com ([45.56.77.53]:57292 "EHLO mail.cmpwn.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725941AbgHaXEH (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:04:07 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=cmpwn.com; s=cmpwn; t=1598915047; bh=OFoNm9JTAPDRV0Buvs+ATuGcgyShIvQx0V1H5bfZoNY=; h=To:Cc:Subject:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=G9Qy7xALw+e3x2wNto/dpn7VB5QbYfuX2hErJx8Q+U1+gg4TsDao5jo9b3bhg+/9P pNvBY8TffJe4tpGYy1gLMcqDmoKF2YJGXeT3FgNBsszJ/HhN1syzBOlHbJzPXVWER9 Lh/M2hASKhj6Y6cm6kpAFCrJDyCoBIcrHxtPYbJY= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: "Jonathan Corbet" Cc: Subject: Re: [PATCH] submitting-patches.rst: streamline for git usage From: "Drew DeVault" Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:01:51 -0400 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20200831162641.16e90bb8@lwn.net> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Thanks for the feedback! On Mon Aug 31, 2020 at 6:26 PM EDT, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > - We have a document on configuring email clients for use in kernel > development; we should be pointing there rather than to outside sites. > There might well be a place for a pointer to useplaintext.email in > Documentation/process/email-clients.rst, but that's a separate patch. Yeah, I was wondering if this'd come up. There are an awful lot of email clients and keeping an up-to-date list of instructions for configuring plaintext is unfortunately an entire project in and of itself. Will move to email-clients.rst in a separate patch for further discussion. > - In general we've been removing manual section numbers for the reasons > amply demonstrated in this patch; maintaining them is a pain and, once > you've gone through and changed them all, referring to sections by > number doesn't work as well anymore. My own feeling is that they should > come out. Should this be split into its own patch? > - Please don't just remove maintainer information like that. If it needs > a new home, fine, find a new home for it. We have a nascent maintainers > manual that could certainly use some help. Totally fair, I'll look for a new home for this info.