On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:37:32AM -0700, Mike Rapoport wrote: [snip] > If you are comfortable with random people taking your work and adjusting it > to fit into Documentation/mm, I think there are a few ways to move this > forward without requiring you to do the actual work. > Yeah I'm not against that for snippets of the work, I do think that a large chunk of the book isn't quite so useful (the parts that are more code commentary), but there are definitely descriptive elements that are more suited. > First, I'm ready to give it a try and see how much effort is required for > LaTeX to rst conversion and what are the changes that need to be made to > the content. Maybe others in the community would be able to contribute too. > Thanks, I will try to pull out some bits that I think might be useful. I could even try converting some myself as a starting point. I wonder if a 'staging' area in the docs section could be useful? ;) > Next, if people ask about entry level MM projects that's something that we > can suggest as well. > > And if we are going to participate in projects like Outreachy and Google > Season of Docs, we can suggest a project "Convert Lorenzo's book to kernel > documentation" alongside "Write more MM documentation" project. > Yeah, this could be a good starting point actually, as rather than starting from zero, people would have some material that they can cross-check. > > Also, as always, I am happy to send the current WIP book to anybody in > > MAINTAINERS if they would like to take a look! > > > > Relatedly, I am shortly going to be working on the page cache chapter, > > Willy - I wondered if you would like to take a look when I am done > > with that? > > > > Cheers, Lorenzo > > > > [1]:https://ljs.io/merge_cases.png > > > > > -- > > > Sincerely yours, > > > Mike. > > > > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Mike. >
