From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D09EC43441 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 23:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22852082A for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 23:16:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key) header.d=sirena.org.uk header.i=@sirena.org.uk header.b="OL0ba4W7" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org E22852082A Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731814AbeKNJQj (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2018 04:16:39 -0500 Received: from heliosphere.sirena.org.uk ([172.104.155.198]:36860 "EHLO heliosphere.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726022AbeKNJQi (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2018 04:16:38 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sirena.org.uk; s=20170815-heliosphere; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type: MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=5VfuggXMmDOtXMJwdTIOGpp5vVtx2OtZZvrZvCjNQzQ=; b=OL0ba4W70EcSJKsu3oNbRIT0q cJhwCDRtwuuYi85l6wSp0LPquD7m5umyEvXDnwApFjbekJRbgfOgRZk5zsuK6fMyTJwjBScg9/kkc jsxTa4AK/Y0yGMpGsmPzxq1crPRZPbydyieP4MO+Wv5E33NOOM1h0KoCUCRv6RtPKgiCU=; Received: from [64.114.255.97] (helo=finisterre.ee.mobilebroadband) by heliosphere.sirena.org.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gMhuK-0002kF-0O; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 23:15:44 +0000 Received: by finisterre.ee.mobilebroadband (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EAA31440078; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 23:15:37 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:15:37 -0800 From: Mark Brown To: Dan Williams Cc: Theodore Ts'o , Peter Zijlstra , Jonathan Corbet , Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kernel Mailing List , X86 ML , Paul McKenney , John Stultz , acme@redhat.com, frederic@kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski , Marc Zyngier , Daniel Lezcano , Dave Hansen , Ard Biesheuvel , Will Deacon Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] Documentation/process: Add subsystem/tree handbook Message-ID: <20181113231537.GR2089@sirena.org.uk> References: <20181107171010.421878737@linutronix.de> <20181107124855.328133e7@lwn.net> <20181108074920.4c601ee3@lwn.net> <20181108150517.GV9761@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20181108162133.GC1080@thunk.org> <20181108163223.GH6675@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nHJAUhyIZkPvF01C" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Cookie: No Canadian coins. User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nHJAUhyIZkPvF01C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:32:18AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:32 AM Mark Brown wrote: > > I'm not 100% sure that people will pick up that the topic is about a > > handbook for working with maintainers rather than a handbook for being a > > maintainer from that title... > The intent is a handbook for being a maintainer. However, in the > process of describing how a given sub-system is maintained one also > needs to describe the local rules. So contributors should be able to > glean what matters to a sub-system from a description of how that > sub-system is maintained. In other words the direct audience is > maintainers, but it also hopefully makes the process more transparent > for contributors. To me that sounds like a document aimed at contributors rather than maintainers. --nHJAUhyIZkPvF01C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEEreZoqmdXGLWf4p/qJNaLcl1Uh9AFAlvrWxgACgkQJNaLcl1U h9CVtQf+NJ3R8Z+2crtzJgNCWc01DnKrsAnPPJRHqdmeaCysVTFPRaoQvGjc+4A7 LqKdRa2tMvEChUEAdWYfvRyVsf/ueqKPIcd96XniOA9OVhbww+JDR444zTcULEEX M6V09WDsqLC4eJoFO8uVtg7T91Ni/A6olPtUiozjXBfV5bnQ3J6gOqsv8IQXRqbd XZEX4SqolgOiMcozVdg84OXEioq0cVvD7x9T5kHd27uccXtZauxBwItdqZb+ZQTr U8yKFQLZbIfSMnLwMtgoGDugAsNm45056k4mMZMAlX4H8OmSZv1RZoQzkj46bWYO YzTbPI8KgJZRXsa6bvpd0oGMdhFZEA== =A0xH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nHJAUhyIZkPvF01C--