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* [RFC PATCH 0/3] Maintainer Handbook: Subsystem Profile
@ 2018-11-15  4:53 Dan Williams
  2018-11-15  4:53 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Reclaim the P: tag for " Dan Williams
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 61+ messages in thread
From: Dan Williams @ 2018-11-15  4:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Dave Jiang, Daniel Vetter, Linus Torvalds,
	Dmitry Vyukov, Vishal Verma, Jonathan Corbet, Thomas Gleixner,
	Ross Zwisler, Joe Perches, Tobin C. Harding, Martin K. Petersen,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman, Steve French, Olof Johansson, corbet,
	linux-nvdimm, ksummit-discuss

At a recently concluded session at the Linux Plumbers Conference I
proposed a "Subsystem Profile" as a document that a maintainer can
provide to set contributor expectations and provide fodder for a
discussion between maintainers about the merits of different maintainer
policies.

For those that did not attend, the goal of the Subsystem Profile, and the
Maintainer Handbook more generally, is to provide a desk reference for
maintainers both new and experienced. The session introduction was:

    The first rule of kernel maintenance is that there are no hard and
    fast rules. That state of affairs is both a blessing and a curse. It
    has served the community well to be adaptable to the different
    people and different problem spaces that inhabit the kernel
    community. However, that variability also leads to inconsistent
    experiences for contributors, little to no guidance for new
    contributors, and unnecessary stress on current maintainers. There
    are quite a few of people who have been around long enough to make
    enough mistakes that they have gained some hard earned proficiency.
    However if the kernel community expects to keep growing it needs to
    be able both scale the maintainers it has and ramp new ones without
    necessarily let them make a decades worth of mistakes to learn the
    ropes. 

To be clear, the proposed document does not impose or suggest new
rules. Instead it provides an outlet to document the unwritten rules
and policies in effect for each subsystem, and that each subsystem
might decide differently for whatever reason.

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Dan Williams (3):
      MAINTAINERS: Reclaim the P: tag for Subsystem Profile
      MAINTAINERS, Handbook: Subsystem Profile
      libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Subsystem Profile


 Documentation/maintainer/index.rst             |    1 
 Documentation/maintainer/subsystem-profile.rst |  145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/nvdimm/subsystem-profile.rst     |   86 ++++++++++++++
 MAINTAINERS                                    |   26 +++-
 4 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/maintainer/subsystem-profile.rst
 create mode 100644 Documentation/nvdimm/subsystem-profile.rst

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2018-11-15  4:53 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Maintainer Handbook: Subsystem Profile Dan Williams
2018-11-15  4:53 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Reclaim the P: tag for " Dan Williams
2018-11-15  5:39   ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-15 20:12     ` Joe Perches
2018-11-15  4:53 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS, Handbook: " Dan Williams
2018-11-15  5:48   ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Julia Lawall
2018-11-15  7:59     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-11-15 13:47       ` Julia Lawall
2018-11-16 12:44         ` Jani Nikula
2018-11-16 17:56           ` Joe Perches
2018-11-17 14:12             ` Rob Herring
2018-11-17 17:03               ` Julia Lawall
2018-11-20  7:28             ` Jani Nikula
2018-11-15  5:49   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-15  7:58   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-11-15  8:38   ` Jani Nikula
2018-11-15 18:03     ` Tim.Bird
2018-11-15 23:56     ` Tobin C. Harding
2018-11-15 15:44   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-16 23:28     ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-17 11:57     ` Hans Verkuil
2018-11-16  0:11   ` Frank Rowand
2018-11-16 12:04     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-16 18:57       ` Dan Williams
2018-11-18 12:58         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-18 17:31           ` Dan Williams
2018-11-18 17:31             ` Dan Williams
2018-11-18 17:34               ` Dan Williams
2018-11-18 17:44                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-16 16:47     ` Frank Rowand
2018-11-15  4:53 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: " Dan Williams
2018-11-15  8:03   ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-11-15 14:10     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-15 16:20       ` Leon Romanovsky
2018-11-15 19:09         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-15 19:35           ` Leon Romanovsky
2018-11-15 19:40             ` Luck, Tony
2018-11-15 19:43               ` Joe Perches
2018-11-16 11:39                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-18  7:12                   ` Leon Romanovsky
2018-11-16 11:33             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-16 12:00               ` Jan Kara
2018-11-18  7:00               ` Leon Romanovsky
2018-11-16 20:36         ` Rodrigo Vivi
2018-11-16 23:44           ` Dan Williams
2018-11-17  0:38             ` NeilBrown
2018-11-18 13:11               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-18 13:03             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-20  8:10               ` Jani Nikula
2018-11-20 19:31                 ` Dan Williams
2018-11-26 11:12                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-26 15:55                   ` Joe Perches
2018-11-16 19:13     ` Dan Williams
2018-11-15 14:30   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-15 14:51     ` Julia Lawall
2018-11-16 19:20     ` Dan Williams
2018-11-16  2:58   ` y-goto
2018-11-17  0:32   ` [Ksummit-discuss] " David Woodhouse
2018-11-15  5:56 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Maintainer Handbook: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-11-25 10:57 ` Pavel Machek
2018-11-25 20:55   ` Dan Williams

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