On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:32 AM Mark Brown <broo...@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 11:21:33AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 04:05:17PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > My plumbers schedule is already 100% booked with MCs and other things. > > > There is no kernel-summit schedule details available as of yet, but it > > > is already almost certain that I will not have time for anything in that > > > track anyway :/ > > > I thought there was a slot already scheduled on the refereed track, > > "Towards a Linux Kernel Mainainer Handbook" (Tuesday at 4:45pm) for > > this purpose? > > I'm not 100% sure that people will pick up that the topic is about a > handbook for working with maintainers rather than a handbook for being a > maintainer from that title...
The intent is a handbook for being a maintainer. However, in the process of describing how a given sub-system is maintained one also needs to describe the local rules. So contributors should be able to glean what matters to a sub-system from a description of how that sub-system is maintained. In other words the direct audience is maintainers, but it also hopefully makes the process more transparent for contributors.