Re: Linux general wiki

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Fri Mar 27 2009 - 19:11:46 EST


On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Henrik Austad <henrik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 27 March 2009 20:13:24 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> We have a lot of good wikis [1] at kernel.org but I don't see one for
>> general things. I just made a huge write up to how to help support the
>> stable kernels
>
> What exactly do you mean by 'help support the stable kernels'? Are you talking
> about maintaining drivers? Doing patch review? Running configure/compile/run
> tests?

How to efficiently get patches upstream from Linus's tree down to the
stable series, recommendation of use of linux-2.6-allstable for this,
etc.

>> and figured I'd go and add that to the wiki somewhere
>> but I don't see any place it would fit. Should I just start using the
>> main page for that and expand?
>
> Why not? After all, it it's a general article. IMHO, adding a new 'general
> wiki' doesn't make any sense.
>
> However, are you sure that this article doesn't belong at, say, kernelnewbies?

Hm, yeah good point will check there.

Luis
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