Re: [PATCH docs v2] MAINTAINERS: treat Documentation/maintainer as process docs

[Jonathan Corbet]

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> A handful of people got caught out by the recent changes in git
> which changed the format of Message-ID and broke our recommended
> applyhook for adding lore links.
>
> This was fixed in the docs by commit 2bb19e740e9b ("Documentation:
> update git configuration for Link: tag") but it seems like few people
> have noticed. Add maintainer directory to the process entry so that
> workflows@ gets CCed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
>  - fix order of entries
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230712161011.1339829-1-kuba@xxxxxxxxxx/
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 3be1bdfe8ecc..fff7e50948b6 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -6206,6 +6206,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION PROCESS
>  M:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
>  L:	workflows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  S:	Maintained
> +F:	Documentation/maintainer/
>  F:	Documentation/process/

So what this may really be telling us is that we should move the
maintainer directory under Documentation/process/.  But applying this
patch is easier, so that's what I've done for now :)

Thanks,

jon