Re: Docs for base maintainer expectations?

[Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>]

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Hey Jakub,

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 11:52:39AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> do we have any docs describing what's expected from folks stepping up
> to maintain (small-ish) parts of the kernel like a driver or a protocol?
> 
> Experienced developers / maintainers differ like the beautiful
> snowflakes that we are, but outsiders have much less familiarity 
> with the landscape, and frankly sometimes much less interest in
> participating once they code lands.
> 
> Which makes we wonder if a simple list of responsibilities would be
> useful as a baseline.

> I haven't spotted anything in Docs/process but
> perhaps someone has a local version for their subsystem?

Given I figure you did this on with a -rc1 based tree, which would mean
that what I wrote probably does not fit the bill, but I tried to do
something along these lines with
https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-soc.html
for which my target audience was people picking up maintenance of
DT/soc drivers, which I hope there'll be a few of in RISC-V land soon...

I suggested adding things to it, like putting the trees in linux-next
etc, but review feedback suggested that was unsuited to a subsystem
specific document.

Thanks,
Conor.

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