On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 08:58:14AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > We appear to have a gap in our process docs. We go into detail > on how to contribute code to the kernel, and how to be a subsystem > maintainer. I can't find any docs directed towards the thousands > of small scale maintainers, like folks maintaining a single driver > or a single network protocol. I'm not super comfortable with all of the musts here but this is probably fine so Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> One note: > +Maintainers must be human, however, it is not acceptable to add a mailing > +list or a group email as a maintainer. Trust and understanding are the > +foundation of kernel maintenance and one cannot build trust with a mailing > +list. If you're revising this I'd add a note about the L: tag in MAINTAINERS here, or possibly just adding a list in addition to humans. It is sensible and often helpful for companies to want to get mail copied to a wider distribution list internally but they're not really what we mean by list since external people typically can't join them.
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