From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 686828B4 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:29:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cvs.linux-mips.org (eddie.linux-mips.org [148.251.95.138]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D08F32 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:32934 "EHLO linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S27010615AbbGPPNDsFRA0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:13:03 +0200 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:12:51 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Tim Bird Message-ID: <20150716151251.GF20901@linux-mips.org> References: <20150710143641.GW4341@mwanda> <20150710160714.GL111846@vmdeb7> <20150710222351.GA28632@kroah.com> <20150711000034.GU111846@vmdeb7> <20150711001348.GA30675@kroah.com> <20150711055441.GA6316@sudip-PC> <20150715212043.775be5d2@gandalf.local.home> <20150716132551.GH4039@sirena.org.uk> <20150716094720.2bf9f5ac@gandalf.local.home> <55A7C7FE.6000604@sonymobile.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55A7C7FE.6000604@sonymobile.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Jason Cooper Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:04:30AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > On 07/16/2015 06:47 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > One of the issues with newcomers coming to development of the Linux > > kernel, is that every maintainer is different. We should be trying > > harder to let people know what we prefer. Every maintainer expects > > something different, but it's up to the maintainer to explicitly let > > others know what they want. You can't expect everyone to read your mind. > > I agree with this completely. When you switch systems (which I've done > something like 5 times in the last 2 years), you are essentially a newbie > in that new system. > > How about putting some notes in the MAINTAINER file for things like > this, that some get_maintainer.pl option could show? > We could use a I: prefix, for "Instructions:" (only because 'N:' > is already used.) > > I'm not sure the what types of per-maintainer differences would be good to > list, but at least the two described here would be good: > - ping delay preference > - ping style (whole patch or just an alert) preference > > I think there may be some other things that we could recommend, but maybe > it would be good to use free-form instructions for a while and see what > patterns emerge. > > A side benefit of this would be that maintainers could see what their > colleagues are doing, which might help spread knowledge of useful > practices. Haven't systems like patchwork mostly obsoleted ping emails? Ralf