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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2019-11-25 18:43:28 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2019-11-25 18:43:28 +0300
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Merge branch 'maintainer-profile' into docs-next
Patch series from Dan Williams: At last years Plumbers Conference I proposed the Maintainer Entry 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 Maintainer Entry Profile is to provide contributors documentation of patch submission considerations that may vary by subsystem. 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. To be clear, the proposed document does not impose or suggest new rules. Instead it provides an outlet to document the existing unwritten policies in effect for a given subsystem. Over time the hope is that some of this variability can be up-levelled to new global process policy, but in the meantime it provides relief for communicating the guidelines that are being imposed on contributors. [jc: resolved merge conflicts with the MAINTAINERS file, added a patch to fix up various RST issues, and added a TOC section for the profiles.]
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