Re: [PATCH docs] docs: remove the tips on how to submit patches from MAINTAINERS

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Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Having "how to submit patches" in MAINTAINTERS seems out of place.
> > We have a whole section of documentation about it, duplication
> > is harmful and a lot of the text looks really out of date.
> >
> > Sections 1, 2 and 4 look really, really old and not applicable
> > to the modern process.
> >
> > Section 3 is obvious but also we have build bots now.
> >
> > Section 5 is a bit outdated (diff -u?!). But I like the part
> > about factoring out shared code, so add that to process docs.
> >
> > Section 6 is unnecessary?
> >
> > Section 7 is covered by more appropriate docs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/process/6.Followthrough.rst |  7 ++
> >  MAINTAINERS                               | 80 +----------------------
> >  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
> 
> This has been discussed in the past, I'm not sure why we've never done
> it.  I totally agree, and will happily apply this unless somebody
> objects or beats me to it.

It looks good to me,

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>



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