The process book is arguably the most important documentation we have; the top three trafficked pages on docs.kernel.org are found here. Make a beginning effort to impose a more useful organization on this page to ease developers into the community. --- This is a version of the reworked page I showed briefly during the kernel-summit documentation session. Perhaps more useful than the patch itself is the rendered version of the page, which can be seen at: https://static.lwn.net/kerneldoc/process/index.html There is a lot to do to turn this book into a coherent set of documentation, but this seems like a plausible step in that direction. Documentation/process/index.rst | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/index.rst b/Documentation/process/index.rst index a1daa309b58d..0751c8c05023 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst @@ -15,49 +15,96 @@ to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of trouble. -Below are the essential guides that every developer should read. +An introduction to how kernel development works +----------------------------------------------- + +Read these documents first: an understanding of the material here will ease +your entry into the kernel community. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 - license-rules howto - code-of-conduct - code-of-conduct-interpretation development-process submitting-patches - handling-regressions + submit-checklist + +Tools and technical guides for kernel developers +------------------------------------------------ + +This is a collection of material that kernel developers should be familiar +with. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + changes programming-language coding-style - maintainer-handbooks maintainer-pgp-guide email-clients + applying-patches + backporting + adding-syscalls + volatile-considered-harmful + botching-up-ioctls + +Policy guides and developer statements +-------------------------------------- + +These are the rules that we try to live by in the kernel community (and +beyond). + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + license-rules + code-of-conduct + code-of-conduct-interpretation + contribution-maturity-model kernel-enforcement-statement kernel-driver-statement + stable-api-nonsense + stable-kernel-rules + management-style + researcher-guidelines -For security issues, see: +Dealing with bugs +----------------- + +Bugs are a fact of life; it is important that we handle them properly. +The documents below describe our policies around the handling of a couple +of special classes of bugs: regressions and security problems. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + handling-regressions security-bugs embargoed-hardware-issues -Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: +Maintainer information +---------------------- + +How to find the people who will accept your patches. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + maintainer-handbooks + maintainers + +Other material +-------------- + +Here are some other guides to the community that are of interest to most +developers are: .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 - changes - stable-api-nonsense - management-style - stable-kernel-rules - submit-checklist kernel-docs deprecated - maintainers - researcher-guidelines - contribution-maturity-model These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for lack of a better place. @@ -65,12 +112,7 @@ lack of a better place. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 - applying-patches - backporting - adding-syscalls magic-number - volatile-considered-harmful - botching-up-ioctls clang-format ../arch/riscv/patch-acceptance ../core-api/unaligned-memory-access -- 2.42.0
