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=-8.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A, SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham 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 0ABA5C433E2 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2020 16:12:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D333020773 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2020 16:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="ftzF0b87" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726871AbgIBQMQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2020 12:12:16 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:56482 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728463AbgIBQLo (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2020 12:11:44 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 857C7C061245 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2020 09:11:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject:Sender: Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=s9dnC/Ae0JRQ2cNS49MXb/d+jgM0c7BZUzlfCIVAXGI=; b=ftzF0b87ZoZmWRtbBgNxZvcz3g frJNIfLvJdJ1+CFWBDP2JBKZRuSpe3k1ZFE5XgX57nKM0mt7i0nqonWbCL/5FVFQjP9qqoHgPHRuW GcPkaoGKYikcyzWctVSIs1bEk2TvW2rYwKsHoYUrY2p/4YHhs8fw71bkDQ1yvmkInyghMJhlXLide vN5wnVwSyOCP6kVOhUfoQGiDUOYxgw40bpHByS5NfrMfkPa81q7LNPpnvQOYqA4awD9PshnAlURbR /VE07wVypHACceF0XjnmsSIm0uLVv3S10JazNpGg/tfh6mk0Xvr/SCK4LDiqH5VO7GrievKQSf8Ks qYbcIacg==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::19c2] by casper.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1kDVMM-0005iy-Rj; Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:11:43 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] submitting-patches.rst: presume git will be used To: Drew DeVault , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet References: <20200902155759.55895-1-sir@cmpwn.com> <20200902155759.55895-5-sir@cmpwn.com> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 09:11:40 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200902155759.55895-5-sir@cmpwn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org 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 > --- > 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