Re: [PATCH v2] doc: add maintainer book

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 07:22:36PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 08:56:23AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 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 :(
> 
> Oh, I didn't realize I was able to keep it between versions. I realize
> this was a reasonably trivial change but in general how much change is
> ok while keeping the reviewed-by? Who's call is it, the original
> author, the reviewed-by dev or the maintainer?

Use your judgement, usually for tiny changes it's good to keep it so
people don't have to keep reviewing it and adding it again.

thanks,

greg k-h