Re: [PATCH] Add a document on how to contribute to the documentation

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:53:02 -0800
Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One thing which I feel should be mentioned
> is the hard work put in by hundreds of kernel maintainers who have
> written kernel-doc and nobody has done the trivial work to actually
> include those source files in an rst file, so all that documentation
> is being ignored.  A great task that's a step up from "fixing typos" is
> "find documentation that's not currently in a kernel book and add it".
> Even if it's just dumped into a "misc" section, having (eg) kvmalloc()
> documentation in a kernel book is a benefit.

Yeah, I'd thought about putting that in, then kind of forgot about it.
I'll add a paragraph.

> Do you want to preemptively mention the Oxford comma here?

It's true, there is only One True Way Of Comma Placement, so we want to be
sure people get it right...:)

Thanks,

jon



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