Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757518AbcJREbM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 00:31:12 -0400 Received: from smtp3-1.goneo.de ([85.220.129.38]:55416 "EHLO smtp3-1.goneo.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754841AbcJREbF (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 00:31:05 -0400 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.778 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve development-process book From: Markus Heiser In-Reply-To: <20161017164342.28d4f0c3@lwn.net> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 06:30:48 +0200 Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linux Doc Mailing List , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , LKML Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: References: <20161017164342.28d4f0c3@lwn.net> To: Jonathan Corbet X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2169 Lines: 59 Hi Jon, Am 18.10.2016 um 00:43 schrieb Jonathan Corbet : > I've only been able to take a quick look at these - I'm buried fairly deep > at the moment. A few superficial thoughts. > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:55:37 -0200 > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > >> In my opinion, it would be better to move the converted files to be inside >> a Sphinx build directory, but Jon seems reluctant to that, so, this series >> use symlinks, as it is easy to move the files in the future with a very simple >> patch, if we decide to do so. > > So I raised this topic in talks at both Kernel Recipes and LinuxCon > Europe, and nobody threw things at me. sounds good ;-) > I have come to suspect that I'm > worrying a little too much about it; maybe we should go ahead and move > the documents and see who screams. The work could go into docs-next soon, > and there would be an opportunity to fix things up if all hell breaks > loose at the kernel summit. > > Can I make some silly requests? > > - Can we move development-process to something shorter, like just > "process"? We'll be typing it a lot, and tab completion doesn't work in > most email clients :) > > - I think we should leave pointers behind in the form of one-line "this > file has moved" messages. Probably only SubmittingPatches and > CodingStyle need that treatment, I think. > > - The "user manual" is certainly something that has been on my mind as > well. We have documentation for completely separate audiences all mixed > together now, and definitely need to fix that. But rather than "user", > can we paint that shed "admin-guide" or something like that? > One Silly request of mine: Is there a chance moving "./Documentation" to something shorter like "./doc"? Even with "Text completion" (in Emacs [1]), IMO "Documentation" is to long. --Markus-- [1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryCompletion > Thanks for doing all of this, > > jon > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html