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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc: add maintainer book
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 08:56:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171125075623.GC8786@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1511559870-31111-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc>

On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 08:44:19AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> There is currently very little documentation in the kernel on maintainer
> level tasks. In particular there are no documents on creating pull
> requests to submit to Linus.
> 
> Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman on LKML:
> 
>     Anyway, this actually came up at the kernel summit / maintainer
>     meeting a few weeks ago, in that "how do I make a
>     good pull request to Linus" is something we need to document.
> 
>     Here's what I do, and it seems to work well, so maybe we should turn
>     it into the start of the documentation for how to do it.
> 
> (quote references: kernel summit, Europe 2017)
> 
> Create a new kernel documentation book 'how to be a maintainer'
> (suggested by Jonathan Corbet). Add chapters on 'configuring git' and
> 'creating a pull request'.
> 
> Most of the content was written by Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman
> in discussion on LKML. This is stated at the start of one of the
> chapters and the original email thread is referenced in
> 'pull-requests.rst'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
> ---

You dropped my reviewed-by :(

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-25  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-24 21:44 [PATCH v2] doc: add maintainer book Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-25  7:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-11-25  8:22   ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-25  8:51     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-27 18:57 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-11-27 20:53   ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-27 21:01     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-11-27 22:38       ` Tobin C. Harding

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