Re: [PATCH] Documentation: riscv: add patch acceptance guidelines

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On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 6:49 PM Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, Dan Williams wrote:
>
> > I'm open to updating the headers to make a section heading that
> > matches what you're trying to convey, however that header definition
> > should be globally agreed upon. I don't want the document that tries
> > to clarify per-subsystem behaviours itself to have per-subsystem
> > permutations. I think we, subsystem maintainers, at least need to be
> > able to agree on the topics we disagree on.
>
> Unless you're planning to, say, follow up with some kind of automated
> process working across all of the profile documents in such a way that it
> would make technical sense for the different sections to be standardized,
> I personally don't see any need at all for profile document
> standardization.  As far as I can tell, these documents are meant for
> humans, rather than computers, to read.  And in the absence of a strong
> technical rationale to limit how maintainers express themselves here, I
> don't think it's justified.
>

It's just a template, you're free to make sub-headings of your own
choosing, but please try to give a contributor that is spanning
subsystems a chance to navigate similar information across profile
documents.



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