On 03.03.24 17:31, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I wanted to clean up the development-process documentation. There is >> however no easy way to break the ice here: >> >> The elephant in the room is that there is some unclear relation between >> 5.Posting.rst, 6.Followthrough.rst and submitting-patches.rst. >> (Yes, I know each document has its own history...; but let us put the >> history aside for now.) > > FWIW, the objective of those two documents is quite different; one is a > high-level overview of how the development process as a whole works, the > other is a detailed guide to submitting work for consideration. Sorry, I'm slightly confused here, so I have to ask: which is which? Due to the "*essential*" in the headline of submitting-patches.rst and its "For *detailed* information on how the kernel development process works, see Documentation/process/development-process.rst" in the intro make it sounds to me like submitting-patches.rst should be the one with the high-level overview. But... > Again, let's remember the different purposes of these documents. The > development-process document is an overall description of the process, > so it doesn't need the details. ...this makes it sounds like you consider it the other way around. And for me that feels the wrong, as why describe the overall process in detail, but leave the most important part of the process to some other document? /me wonders what he is missing Ciao, Thorsten
