This series adds a new and mostly finished document describing how to report issues with the Linux kernel to its developers. It is designed to be a lot more straight forward and yet more detailed than the current text about this (Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst). The new text still needs to be reviewed by more people and a few open issues will need discussion. To make these tasks easier, it was decided to add this document to the kernel sources in parallel to the existing text for now: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201118172958.5b014a44@xxxxxxx The first patch in the series adds the CC-BY-4.0 license to the LICENSES/preferred/ directory, as the main author wants to make it easy for others to use the new text as a base when writing about this topic in books or on websites. He for now went with for dual-licensing the text under GPL-2.0+ and CC-BY-4.0. We shouldn't lose much when people use the more liberal of the two, but gain one thing: it increases chances that texts about this topic are based on this one, which should make them more accurate and to our liking. The last patch in the series adds a note to Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst, declaring it obsolete and telling readers to head over to the new text, as discussed after the v2 submission. To see how the new text relates to the current reporting-bugs.rst document, see v2 of this patchset, which gradually replaced the old text with the new (which hasn't changed much since then): https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1605203187.git.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ To see how the new text from v3 and v4 relates to the one from v2 or v1, compare these files with tools like meld or kdiff3: https://gitlab.com/knurd42/linux/-/raw/reporting-bugs/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs-v4-wrapped.rst https://gitlab.com/knurd42/linux/-/raw/reporting-bugs/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs-v3-wrapped.rst https://gitlab.com/knurd42/linux/-/raw/reporting-bugs/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs-v2-wrapped.rst https://gitlab.com/knurd42/linux/-/raw/reporting-bugs/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs-v1-wrapped.rst The patch series is against docs-next and can also be found on gitlab: git://git@xxxxxxxxxx:knurd42/linux.git reporting-bugs-v4 [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201118172958.5b014a44@xxxxxxx = Changes = v3 -> v4 - move CC-BY-4.0 from LICENSES/preferred/ to LICENSES/dual/ - add note to CC-BY-4.0 file explaining why it's best used together with GPL - add a note to as comment to the header of reporting-issues.rst, pointing out only the unprocessed version of this file is available under CC-BY-4.0. v2 -> v3 - drop the RFC tag - add CC-BY-4.0 to LICENSES/preferred/ - instead of adding the new text in small parts while gradually replacing the old text simply dump the whole new text in a new file in one go - add a note at the top pointing out the text is not completely finished yet, but ready for consumption - add a few notes to the text pointing to issues that need discussion or work; this until now was done in the patch - let the automarkup extension handle links to Documentation/whatever instead of using an explicit :ref: - leave scripts/ver_linux untouched - a handful of small improvements and fixes in the main text - add a patch that makes reporting-bugs.rst obsolete v1 -> v2 - all over: a whole lot of spelling fixes and small improvements. Many thx to suggestions from Randy Dunlap (many thx!). - use "ref:" to reference MAINTAINERs file - the licensing advice is now a rst comment near the top - reshuffle and rewrite some parts to make them more straight forward: - The short guide (aka TL;DR)" (patch 2) - Locate kernel area that causes the issue (patch 9) - Install a fresh kernel for testing (patch 15) = Links = v3 submission: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1606137108.git.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ v2 submission: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1605203187.git.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ v1 submission: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1601541165.git.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Current version of reporting-bugs.rst https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.html https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst Commits to it and its predecessor: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/REPORTING-BUGS Thorsten Leemhuis (3): LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license docs: Add a new text describing how to report bugs docs: make reporting-bugs.rst obsolete Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 4 +- Documentation/admin-guide/bug-bisect.rst | 2 +- Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst | 3 +- Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst | 5 + .../admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst | 1631 +++++++++++++++++ Documentation/admin-guide/security-bugs.rst | 2 +- .../device_drivers/ethernet/3com/vortex.rst | 4 +- Documentation/process/howto.rst | 9 +- LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0 | 410 +++++ 9 files changed, 2058 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst create mode 100644 LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0 base-commit: ac7711427014a84ba08353df2b77f115565216d8 -- 2.28.0
