"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: > As a follow-up to a discussion at the 2021 Maintainer's Summit on the > topic of maintainer recruitment and retention, the TAB took on the > task of creating a document which to help companies and other > organizations to grow in their ability to engage with the Linux Kernel > development community, using the Maturity Model[2] framework. > > The goal is to encourage, in a management-friendly way, companies to > allow their engineers to contribute with the upstream Linux Kernel > development community, so we can grow the "talent pipeline" for > contributors to become respected leaders, and eventually kernel > maintainers. > > [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/870581/ > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maturity_model > > Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Co-developed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> > --- > .../process/contribution-maturity-model.rst | 109 ++++++++++++++++++ > Documentation/process/index.rst | 1 + > MAINTAINERS | 8 ++ > 3 files changed, 118 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/process/contribution-maturity-model.rst I've gone head and applied this. Thanks, jon
