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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Maintainer's Summit Agenda Planning
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 10:32:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171006103259.78ab2508@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171006162621.aeauqeih7uner5wp@treble>

On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 11:26:21 -0500
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:

> I think it would be a good idea to have a Maintainer's Guide which tries
> to document a lot of this knowledge.  It would help new maintainers
> learn the ropes, and would also help drive consensus for maintainer's
> best practices.  It could document the typical processes of a
> maintainer, and policy guidelines like some of the above topics.

Strangely enough, this is a conversation that has been popping up in other
contexts too.  We may see an initial attempt before too long.

The tricky part, of course, is finding a way to document the consensus on
best practices without trying to "drive" it too hard.

My own thought is that a good starting place might be a "how to avoid
getting your pull request flamed" document, since there is some semblance
of a consensus there and it's a place where people often make mistakes.

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-06 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-05 19:20 Theodore Ts'o
2017-10-05 20:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-10-05 21:55 ` Jiri Kosina
2017-10-06 14:59 ` Takashi Iwai
2017-10-06 15:27 ` James Bottomley
2017-10-06 16:26   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-06 16:32     ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2017-10-06 16:51       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-06 16:56       ` James Bottomley
2017-10-06 17:16         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-06 20:11       ` Linus Walleij
2017-10-09  8:13   ` Mark Brown
2017-10-09 15:54   ` Jiri Kosina
2017-10-09 16:37     ` James Bottomley
2017-10-09 16:47       ` Joe Perches
2017-10-09 16:49       ` Julia Lawall
2017-10-09 16:56         ` James Bottomley
2017-10-09 17:04           ` Joe Perches
2017-10-11 18:51           ` Jani Nikula
2017-10-12 10:03             ` Daniel Vetter
2017-10-16 14:12             ` James Bottomley
2017-10-16 14:25               ` Jani Nikula
2017-10-16 16:07                 ` Joe Perches
2017-10-17  8:34                   ` Jani Nikula
2017-10-18  1:27                     ` Joe Perches
2017-10-18 10:41                       ` Jani Nikula
2017-10-16 18:52               ` Mark Brown
2017-10-10  8:53       ` Jiri Kosina
2017-10-24 23:03   ` Kees Cook
2017-10-24 23:41     ` Joe Perches
2017-10-25  0:54       ` Kees Cook
2017-10-25  4:21         ` Julia Lawall
2017-10-25  4:29           ` Joe Perches
2017-10-25  4:36             ` Julia Lawall
2017-10-25  6:05         ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-10-25  6:55           ` Kees Cook
2017-10-25  7:34             ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-10-25  6:45         ` Frank Rowand
2017-10-25  7:56         ` Mark Brown
2017-10-25  9:39         ` Laurent Pinchart
2017-10-31 19:19         ` Rob Herring
2017-10-31 19:28           ` Kees Cook

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