Re: [PATCH] [v2] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 08:19:24AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> writes:
>>
>> > It also seems slightly odd to produce this in advance of the maintainer's
>> > summit, as I felt there was some agreement that the topic should be discussed
>> > there?
>> >
>> > Obviously there may be very good reasons for this but it'd be good for
>> > them to be clarified and those who engaged in these discussions to be
>> > cc'd also (or at least ping on threads linking!)
>>
>> The reasoning, from my point of view at least, was to have a starting
>> point for the Maintainers Summit discussion.  Trying to start from
>> scratch in Tokyo seems unlikely to get us far.
>
> I Would understand if this was an RFC or there was a big block saying 'this
> is not yet official' or something, but lt the moment it seems like a change
> sent only to the TAB committee as an apparent 'fait complete' with no
> indication of it being just a starting point? (forgive me if I missed it).
>
> I think pinging the relevant threads would have been helpful, but maybe we
> need a better procedure in general for this kind of thing.

I agree that sending to those threads would have made sense.  Folks are
busy ... I didn't think of that, and it only occurred to me this weekend
that I knew a certain web site where it might make sense to post a
note... 

> I'm not invited to the MS but I wondered if this planned to be discussed
> there? I don't really care about my involvement, only that there is
> community engagement on this.

The agenda has not been worked out, but this topic seems certain to be
there once it is.

jon