Re: Docs for base maintainer expectations?

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes:

> 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?

I think that would be good to have.  We often complain about a lack of
maintainers, but we have nothing to point to telling people how they can
step up and do that.

I've tried to fill in some pieces with the documents on merging and
such, but we're missing the introduction.

Thanks,

jon