On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 08:56:23AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 08:44:19AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > There is currently very little documentation in the kernel on maintainer > > level tasks. In particular there are no documents on creating pull > > requests to submit to Linus. > > > > Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman on LKML: > > > > Anyway, this actually came up at the kernel summit / maintainer > > meeting a few weeks ago, in that "how do I make a > > good pull request to Linus" is something we need to document. > > > > Here's what I do, and it seems to work well, so maybe we should turn > > it into the start of the documentation for how to do it. > > > > (quote references: kernel summit, Europe 2017) > > > > Create a new kernel documentation book 'how to be a maintainer' > > (suggested by Jonathan Corbet). Add chapters on 'configuring git' and > > 'creating a pull request'. > > > > Most of the content was written by Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman > > in discussion on LKML. This is stated at the start of one of the > > chapters and the original email thread is referenced in > > 'pull-requests.rst'. > > > > Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@xxxxxxxx> > > --- > > You dropped my reviewed-by :( Oh, I didn't realize I was able to keep it between versions. I realize this was a reasonably trivial change but in general how much change is ok while keeping the reviewed-by? Who's call is it, the original author, the reviewed-by dev or the maintainer? So v3 with your reviewed-by in the commit log below the signed-off tag. (ain't nothin like noise ;) thanks, Tobin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
