[RFC] MAINTAINERS: direct process doc changes to a dedicated ML

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed May 10 2023 - 22:02:29 EST


It's hard to keep track of changes to the process docs.
Subsystem maintainers should probably know what's going on,
to ensure reasonably uniform developer experience across
trees.

We also need a place where process discussions can be held
(i.e. designated mailing list which can be CCed on naturally
arising discussions). I'm using workflows@ in this RFC,
but a new list may be better.

No change to the patch flow intended.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
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I've been pondering the lack of cross-maintainer communication
as the kernel grows, and I hope this could help bring us together
a little. Plus twice over the last 2 weeks someone popped up on
netdev with what I personally considered incorrect interpretation
of the process docs, so it'd be nice to CC a list on my replies
so I can be corrected, in case I'm wrong.

Opinions more than welcome!
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MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 1c78e61a3387..58239fbc7007 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6223,6 +6223,12 @@ X: Documentation/power/
X: Documentation/spi/
X: Documentation/userspace-api/media/

+DOCUMENTATION PROCESS
+M: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
+S: Maintained
+F: Documentation/process/
+L: workflows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+
DOCUMENTATION REPORTING ISSUES
M: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
L: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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