docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers
authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:32:25 +0000 (11:32 -0700)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:47:10 +0000 (13:47 -0600)
commit4454d38261ac7def5fe97d5a29cad6899f1dde53
treef6f76996caf0e06f25d9d6802a8659f1a4490f6b
parent626c820526a0b1c1801612f4bfd2f6b6163373fc
docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers

We appear to have a gap in our process docs. We go into detail
on how to contribute code to the kernel, and how to be a subsystem
maintainer. I can't find any docs directed towards the thousands
of small scale maintainers, like folks maintaining a single driver
or a single network protocol.

Document our expectations and best practices. I'm hoping this doc
will be particularly useful to set expectations with HW vendors.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Habets <habetsm.xilinx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230719183225.1827100-1-kuba@kernel.org
Documentation/maintainer/feature-and-driver-maintainers.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
Documentation/maintainer/index.rst