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2020-01-24	Add a maintainer entry profile for documentation	Jonathan Corbet	1	-0/+1
	Documentation should lead by example, so here's a basic maintainer entry profile for this subsystem. Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-11-25	docs: fix up the maintainer profile document	Jonathan Corbet	1	-0/+15
	Add blank lines where needed to get the document to render properly. Also add a TOC of existing profiles just so that the nvdimm profile is linked into the toctree, is discoverable, and doesn't generate a warning. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-11-25	Maintainer Handbook: Maintainer Entry Profile	Dan Williams	1	-0/+87
	As presented at the 2018 Linux Plumbers conference [1], the Maintainer Entry Profile (formerly Subsystem Profile) is proposed as a way to reduce friction between committers and maintainers and encourage conversations amongst maintainers about common best practices. While coding-style, submit-checklist, and submitting-drivers lay out some common expectations there remain local customs and maintainer preferences that vary by subsystem. The profile contains documentation of some of the common policy questions a contributor might have that are local to the subsystem / device-driver, special considerations for the subsystem, or other guidelines that are otherwise not covered by the top-level process documents. The initial and hopefully non-controversial headings in the profile are: Overview: General introduction to how the subsystem operates Submit Checklist Addendum: Mechanical items that gate submission staging, or other requirements that gate patch acceptance. Key Cycle Dates: - Last -rc for new feature submissions: Expected lead time for submissions - Last -rc to merge features: Deadline for merge decisions Resubmit Cadence: When and preferred method to follow up with the maintainer Note that coding style guidelines are explicitly left out of this list. See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst for more details, and a follow-on example profile for the libnvdimm subsystem. [1]: https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/2/contributions/59/ Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/157462919309.1729495.10585699280061787229.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>