Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] docs: remove submitting-drivers.rst

[Jonathan Corbet]

Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Dear Jonathan, dear Federico, dear Alex, dear Yanteng, dear Hu,
>
> Here is an attempt to delete submitting-drivers with some improvements
> and clean-up in other documentation places to convince ourselves that
> nothing valuable is lost when deleting this checklist.

I am totally in favor of doing this; that document has not served any
real purpose for a long time.  Resend with the translation tweaks and
such, and I'll happily apply it.

> As future work---with this one submitting checklist gone---I see the harder
> follow-up task to synchronize and clean up the various submission hints/
> guidelines/checklists in the remaining kernel documentation that partly
> overlap and differ in detail, their structure (unstructured, unordered
> lists vs. sections and subsections) and their state of being outdated:
>
>   Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst
>   Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
>   MAINTAINERS#Tips for patch submitters
>
> My next task at hand is to read through all three documents, figure out
> what still applies and what is outdated, determine a good common structure
> for all three documents, include cross-links and make them to some extent
> follow a clear consistent policy. E.g., one document is a more detailed
> description of everything mentioned in the short list of another document.
> I will try to work through that in the next months or motivate and guide
> some colleague or mentee to work together with me on that.

This seems like a good exercise as well.  I think the MAINTAINERS text
should go away entirely, that's not really an appropriate place for it.
submit-checklist.rst hasn't seen any real attention for some time; I'm
not sure how useful it really is.

What I would *really* like is a version of submitting-patches.rst that
is not a "War and Peace" sort of reading experience.  That is a lot for
somebody to get through before they can send their first patch...but
it's not easy to make it shorter without losing important stuff.

Thanks,

jon