linux/Documentation/maintainer
Jakub Kicinski e35fa1f236 docs: maintainer: discourage taking conversations off-list
Multiple vendors seem to prefer taking discussions off list, and
ask contributors to work with them privately rather than just send
patches to the list. I'd imagine this is because it's hard to fit in
time for random developers popping up with features to review into
packed schedule. From what I've seen "work in private" usually means
someone on the company side will be assigned to handle the interaction,
possibly months later. In worst case, the person scheduled to help
the contributor takes over and writes the code themselves.
This is not how the community is supposed to work.

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240713235020.820910-1-kuba@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240712144903.392284-1-kuba@kernel.org
2024-07-16 11:08:26 -06:00
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configure-git.rst docs: maintainers: add missing 's' in https for the base lore link 2023-07-14 12:32:44 -06:00
feature-and-driver-maintainers.rst docs: maintainer: discourage taking conversations off-list 2024-07-16 11:08:26 -06:00
index.rst docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers 2023-07-21 13:47:10 -06:00
maintainer-entry-profile.rst Docs/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile: add DAMON maintainer profile 2024-06-26 16:36:00 -06:00
messy-diffstat.rst docs: Add a document on how to fix a messy diffstat 2022-03-30 13:45:15 -06:00
modifying-patches.rst Documentation/maintainer: rehome sign-off process 2020-09-03 15:39:24 -06:00
pull-requests.rst docs: Slight maintainer's guide decrufting 2023-07-14 12:31:26 -06:00
rebasing-and-merging.rst docs: rebasing-and-merging: Drop wrong statement about git 2023-03-07 10:26:22 -07:00