From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937459AbYEUUhn (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 16:37:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936336AbYEUUhK (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 16:37:10 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.185]:38484 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932109AbYEUUhI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 16:37:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XxEdloAvfXKzLTr/TTFAUHX4oXU1NFqoIdC4AbICQkabKve6/THhkvpLKiqGdN6SP1p2XU4gXboYV+SUyzFE8Zowy1HZXlN5mMe75JQUrl5CZrbsSWUi+LizYasPB5bX6upkCjulcweTsR8YPf+jtRssWhUIPYT7cmaaMobhpIE= Message-ID: <9a8748490805211337q1e7ceab7i80e4820c46f8171b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:37:05 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Jonathan Corbet" Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) Cc: "Cyrill Gorcunov" , rdunlap@xenotime.net, tytso@mit.edu, hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, "Andrew Morton" In-Reply-To: <32279.1211401651@vena.lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a8748490805211306l50b8411ax4462be18c94ca065@mail.gmail.com> <32279.1211401651@vena.lwn.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2008/5/21 Jonathan Corbet : > Jesper Juhl: > >> 2008/5/21 Andrew Morton : >> > Yes, a general GettingStarted document would probably be useful. >> > It would hopefully have more what-to-do content than what-not-to-do. >> >> I'm in the process of trying to write an initial draft of just such a >> document right now. I'll post it once I'm a bit more done (gimme an >> hour or two). > > In theory, that's Documentation/HOWTO. In practice, quite a bit more is > needed. Documentation/HOWTO is indeed a very good place to start. >I'm actually in the process of writing such a thing as well, > with some support from the Linux Foundation. I'll not have it done in > an hour or two, though; a version for review in June is more likely... > What I'm doing right now is basically reformatting my own notes, emails I've written on the subject, pieces of other documents I've written etc etc and trying to put them in the shape of a Getting Started document. Perhaps getting that compiled into a reasonable document in a few hours is a bit too optimistic, but I'll give it a go, post what I have for review and we can take it from there. :-) I'd love to read your document once it's ready for review. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html