12 Dec, 2017
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There is currently very little documentation in the kernel on maintainer
level tasks. In particular there are no documents on creating pull
requests to submit to Linus.Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman on LKML:
Anyway, this actually came up at the kernel summit / maintainer
meeting a few weeks ago, in that "how do I make a
good pull request to Linus" is something we need to document.Here's what I do, and it seems to work well, so maybe we should turn
it into the start of the documentation for how to do it.(quote references: kernel summit, Europe 2017)
Create a new kernel documentation book 'how to be a maintainer'
(suggested by Jonathan Corbet). Add chapters on 'configuring git' and
'creating a pull request'.Most of the content was written by Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman
in discussion on LKML. This is stated at the start of one of the
chapters and the original email thread is referenced in
'pull-requests.rst'.Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
