Re: maintainer profiles

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Is there supposed to be a difference (or distinction) in the contents of
>
> Documentation/process/maintainer-handbooks.rst
> and
> Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
> ?
>
> Can they be combined into one location?

Late to the party, sorry ... the original idea, I believe, was that
maintainer-handbooks.rst would be for developers looking for a guidebook
for a specific subsystem, while maintainer-entry-profile.rst was about
how maintainers themselves should write their subsystem guide.
Doubtless things have drifted since then...  But the intended audiences
were different, so it might be good to think about bringing them back
into focus.

jon