Re: [PATCH v2] doc: add maintainer book

From: Tobin C. Harding
Date: Sat Nov 25 2017 - 03:22:57 EST


On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 08:56:23AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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 :(

Oh, I didn't realize I was able to keep it between versions. I realize
this was a reasonably trivial change but in general how much change is
ok while keeping the reviewed-by? Who's call is it, the original
author, the reviewed-by dev or the maintainer?

So v3 with your reviewed-by in the commit log below the signed-off
tag. (ain't nothin like noise ;)

thanks,
Tobin.