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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] submitting-patches.rst: presume git will be used
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 09:11:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb292b17-6fed-c20f-6efc-ee45657abd40@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200902155759.55895-5-sir@cmpwn.com>

On 9/2/20 8:57 AM, Drew DeVault wrote:
> Git is fairly ubiquitous these days, and the additional information in
> this documentation for preparing patches without it is not especially
> relevant anymore and may serve to confuse new contributors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
> ---
> Conflict of interest: I wrote and maintain the website,
> git-send-email.io, which is recommended in the revised document.

Understood. And how long do you expect to actively maintain those 2 websites?

At least ask archive.org to make backup/copies of them periodically...

>  Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 91 +++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)


thanks.
-- 
~Randy


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-02 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-02 15:57 [PATCH 0/4] Improvements to submitting-patches.rst Drew DeVault
2020-09-02 15:57 ` [PATCH 1/4] submitting-patches.rst: remove heading numbering Drew DeVault
2020-09-03 15:44   ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-09-03 15:48     ` Drew DeVault
2020-09-03 15:46   ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-09-02 15:57 ` [PATCH 2/4] Documentation/process: expand plain-text advice Drew DeVault
2020-09-02 16:06   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-02 16:20     ` Drew DeVault
2020-09-03 15:47   ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-09-02 15:57 ` [PATCH 3/4] Documentation/maintainer: rehome sign-off process Drew DeVault
2020-09-03 15:50   ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-09-02 15:57 ` [PATCH 4/4] submitting-patches.rst: presume git will be used Drew DeVault
2020-09-02 16:11   ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2020-09-02 16:11     ` Drew DeVault
2020-09-03 15:57   ` Jonathan Corbet

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