Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] docs: Rewrite the front page

From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, David Vernet <void@manifault.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] docs: Rewrite the front page
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:32:37 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <396ba5b0-64e6-a9a1-c6e1-4984506c9c3b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220927160559.97154-3-corbet@lwn.net>

On 9/27/22 23:05, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> The front page is the entry point to the documentation, especially for
> people who read it online.  It's a big mess of everything we could think to
> toss into it.  Rewrite the page with an eye toward simplicity and making it
> easy for readers to get going toward what they really want to find.
> 
> This is only a beginning, but it makes our docs more approachable than
> before.
> 
> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> ---
>  Documentation/index.rst          | 148 +++++++++++--------------------
>  Documentation/subsystem-apis.rst |  58 ++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/subsystem-apis.rst
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst
> index 4737c18c97ff..bc492e79f1be 100644
> --- a/Documentation/index.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/index.rst
> @@ -18,131 +18,88 @@ documents into a coherent whole.  Please note that improvements to the
>  documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if
>  you want to help out.
>  
> -Licensing documentation
> ------------------------
> +Working with the development community
> +--------------------------------------
>  
<snipped>...
> -User-oriented documentation
> ----------------------------
> -
> -The following manuals are written for *users* of the kernel — those who are
> -trying to get it to work optimally on a given system.
> +The essential guides for interacting with the kernel's development
> +community and getting your work upstream.
>  
<snipped>...
> +User-oriented documentation
> +---------------------------
>  
> -These books get into the details of how specific kernel subsystems work
> -from the point of view of a kernel developer.  Much of the information here
> -is taken directly from the kernel source, with supplemental material added
> -as needed (or at least as we managed to add it — probably *not* all that is
> -needed).
> +The following manuals are written for *users* of the kernel — those who are
> +trying to get it to work optimally on a given system and application
> +developers seeking information on the kernel's user-space APIs.
>  
>  .. toctree::
> -   :maxdepth: 2
> +   :maxdepth: 1
> +
> +   admin-guide/index
> +   The kernel build system <kbuild/index>
> +   admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst
> +   User-space tools <tools/index>
> +   userspace-api/index
> +

Hi jon,

Why did developer documentations list first before user-oriented ones? I looked
the rendered result as if the former was given more spotlight than the latter.

Thanks.

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