Re: [PATCH v2] doc: add maintainer book

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Nov 25 2017 - 02:56:29 EST


On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 08:44:19AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> There is currently very little documentation in the kernel on maintainer
> level tasks. In particular there are no documents on creating pull
> requests to submit to Linus.
>
> Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman on LKML:
>
> Anyway, this actually came up at the kernel summit / maintainer
> meeting a few weeks ago, in that "how do I make a
> good pull request to Linus" is something we need to document.
>
> Here's what I do, and it seems to work well, so maybe we should turn
> it into the start of the documentation for how to do it.
>
> (quote references: kernel summit, Europe 2017)
>
> Create a new kernel documentation book 'how to be a maintainer'
> (suggested by Jonathan Corbet). Add chapters on 'configuring git' and
> 'creating a pull request'.
>
> Most of the content was written by Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman
> in discussion on LKML. This is stated at the start of one of the
> chapters and the original email thread is referenced in
> 'pull-requests.rst'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@xxxxxxxx>
> ---

You dropped my reviewed-by :(