From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0BBE30DEA5; Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:03:55 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776218642; cv=none; b=UelpZiAYljDOZZ+cADmGe5bDW3zIVXMGQth5FKa7MxdQXxYMnkMQBBFcLRPLER2Qqi4nCMe+gh3LkJ8jVXwxvYpsKpldsxggOtOTAcJGvrNhhlhGC6FT5zqBlKG9geihSRsi1IgX4X3uwstg6Vg3vD4e6GOFDr4j5OZ54ckkgoA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776218642; c=relaxed/simple; bh=DT4Jgx1yT3VjfVmjZAFYWDOOquLdY7pucSTSqYh4B/c=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=kISbS2SZYPkywDm3nQ+5d4P5o9VU6RGudfsyq2dOPpWAP5mLbomMLg/yuWsuXnatdY2lOWZBiUqLceb3WRNygZpOkdss+9Ds4gt48dGDReBnIwP5dB5R3CeeMcz+xMkwq6zsNd1cfba7PvQxmcr19XO/dibnBRHSqWtujxRoYjU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=1j7lTHMx; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="1j7lTHMx" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=Cw7gnQwiMqn2efvFryvvAzImJrEoGsYfFoWuwuNEl0c=; b=1j7lTHMxmbZ4TYq3zDTXo+nac4 qkyjdZDvL2hwu3t8sN03weqql3Znl8NrTjAdgdS1kqsinZ1fmqC158YnJ/WC6hKiihY8gkjH3GCx+ rU6qjzQP69p1rcLD3QlsP+7cTtyDnGZoaea1DDSgJRfvz0mnVIxXRlOGJcHy3pbji1IKEm2mf7yJm JeQcTQcu3GluS0KRLt0oUOhZN34CiFgP7khUEsP7NvHS7sixmS3/2FVtqIW9ADElmwv210bDzPSuT MywqTPXD2P8htB9Sh7chgsrmYnx6Y67CZmpZ7JXP09PbP7CYX4y+wFNWr2SESm+sXqmtvsjRDXKd1 0heRGdqA==; Received: from [50.53.43.113] (helo=[192.168.254.34]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1wCpbd-00000000T1J-43PM; Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:03:54 +0000 Message-ID: <31369e1c-91c2-4cda-9175-c2661a7d5a82@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:03:53 -0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: maintainer profiles To: Krzysztof Kozlowski , Linux Documentation , Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Linux Kernel Workflows References: <72a4accd-5f94-45f7-8392-bb659167f078@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <72a4accd-5f94-45f7-8392-bb659167f078@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 4/14/26 4:18 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 10/04/2026 02:18, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> 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? > > Yes, please! Including also the location of actual profiles. I am mostly > looking at them in the sources directly, not web docs, so confusing and > annoying to find them distributed. I agree completely but I'm not sure if anyone else does. -- ~Randy