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=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS 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 0ADDCC10F13 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2019 22:18:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F6C21473 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2019 22:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726994AbfDHWSW (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Apr 2019 18:18:22 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:38342 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726188AbfDHWSW (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Apr 2019 18:18:22 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 64ADF2CC; Mon, 8 Apr 2019 22:18:21 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 16:18:20 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Add all documentation files to an html/pdf produced book Message-ID: <20190408161820.6a12657f@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 13:58:16 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Despite having converted almost all files to ReST at the main Documentation/ > directory, they're still not included to any book. Also, after all those years > after migrated to ReST as the official documentation format, there are still > a lot of files using plain TXT files, with random internal formatting. > > As it will likely require a lot more years to get everything converted, > let's add index.rst files to Documentation/* subdirs, with a text_files.rst > including all plain txt files as literal includes. > > That ensures that the html output will contain the entire Linux Kernel > documentation. Hmm... > 251 files changed, 5262 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) Somebody clearly thinks I haven't been involved in enough merge conflicts recently :) I understand the goal, but I have to wonder. This feels a lot like giving up on the problem and just sweeping the remaining junk into a pile somewhere. I feel like it would, if anything, reduce the incentive to deal with these leftover documents properly. If this is *really* something we want to do, I would much rather proceed in smaller steps and preferably with the cooperation of the maintainers involved. Imposing all of this at once just seems like a way to make it highly dangerous for me to show my face a conferences... Thoughts? Thanks, jon