Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: Add Researcher Guidelines

Jonathan Corbet
2022-03-04T17:17:09Z

Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 09:19:24AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Hmm, the intro for "Documentation/admin-guide/" states that "The
>> following manuals are written for users of the kernel", but the added
>> text afaics providing nothing regular users care about. So wouldn't it
>> be better if this lived below Documentation/process/ ? It might not a
>> really good fit either, but I'd say it's the better place.
>>
>> But well, the best person to know is Jonathan, who is listed as a
>> Co-developer above, so maybe I'm wrong my suggestion is a bad one.
>
> I started in process/ and eventually settled on admin-guide/ since that's
> basically the "front page". But I agree, there isn't an obviously correct
> place for it.

Sorry, been a bit distracted...when we were working on this I was more
focused on the text than the location. My own feeling is that
Documentation/process is a better place for this - that's where we tell
the world how to work with the kernel community, after all. I'm not
going to dig in my heels and fight about it, but that's my sense.

Otherwise, it kind of seems like this is ready to go in. I'd like to
apply it before the merge window; lemme know where you want it in the
end and we can get it done.

Thanks,

jon