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=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS 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 AD9FBC67790 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:34:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE7220647 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:34:28 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 5AE7220647 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2389741AbeG0W6L (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2018 18:58:11 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:40674 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2389523AbeG0W6L (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2018 18:58:11 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ED82330D; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:34:25 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:34:24 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Federico Vaga Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alessia Mantegazza Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] doc:it_IT: translation for kernel-hacking Message-ID: <20180727153424.7bba09ce@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <1944849.qmSSJrysef@pcbe13614> References: <20180706220517.28623-1-federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> <20180706220517.28623-3-federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> <20180726162330.786826cf@lwn.net> <1944849.qmSSJrysef@pcbe13614> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 09:46:47 +0200 Federico Vaga wrote: > Generally speaking, how readers can understand > how old is a document or if it still correct (in the sense that the document > and the correspondent code are in sync)? We don't have a good answer to that, really. Some of our docs are up-to-the-second current, and others still talk about how to find out which vacuum tube has gone bad in your system. It's a trap for our readers, unfortunately. My plan has been to try to bring some more order to Documentation/ first, hopefully cleaning things up a bit on the way. > How this is handled? Just by enforcing people to update > the documentation when they change, for example, an interface that has been > documented? magari ... talk of such enforcement is a recurring thing, but nobody has the will to actually do that. jon