Re: [PATCH] submitting-patches.rst: streamline for git usage

Drew DeVault
2020-08-31T23:04:09Z

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.