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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>, <workflows@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH docs] docs: remove the tips on how to submit patches from MAINTAINERS
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:39:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <649f21546c607_11e6852942e@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874jmolty3.fsf@meer.lwn.net>

Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes:
> 
> > Having "how to submit patches" in MAINTAINTERS seems out of place.
> > We have a whole section of documentation about it, duplication
> > is harmful and a lot of the text looks really out of date.
> >
> > Sections 1, 2 and 4 look really, really old and not applicable
> > to the modern process.
> >
> > Section 3 is obvious but also we have build bots now.
> >
> > Section 5 is a bit outdated (diff -u?!). But I like the part
> > about factoring out shared code, so add that to process docs.
> >
> > Section 6 is unnecessary?
> >
> > Section 7 is covered by more appropriate docs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/process/6.Followthrough.rst |  7 ++
> >  MAINTAINERS                               | 80 +----------------------
> >  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
> 
> This has been discussed in the past, I'm not sure why we've never done
> it.  I totally agree, and will happily apply this unless somebody
> objects or beats me to it.

It looks good to me,

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-30 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-30 17:15 Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-30 17:51 ` Jonathan Corbet
2023-06-30 18:39   ` Dan Williams [this message]
2023-06-30 18:06 ` Kees Cook
2023-06-30 22:14 ` Randy Dunlap
2023-07-03 14:35 ` Jonathan Corbet

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