Re: [patch 0/2] Documentation/process: Add subsystem/tree handbook

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:32:18AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:32 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I'm not 100% sure that people will pick up that the topic is about a
> > handbook for working with maintainers rather than a handbook for being a
> > maintainer from that title...

> The intent is a handbook for being a maintainer. However, in the
> process of describing how a given sub-system is maintained one also
> needs to describe the local rules. So contributors should be able to
> glean what matters to a sub-system from a description of how that
> sub-system is maintained. In other words the direct audience is
> maintainers, but it also hopefully makes the process more transparent
> for contributors.

To me that sounds like a document aimed at contributors rather than
maintainers.

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