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Date:   Mon, 8 Apr 2019 16:18:20 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Add all documentation files to an html/pdf
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On Mon,  8 Apr 2019 13:58:16 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> wrote:

> Despite having converted almost all files to ReST at the main Documentation/
> directory, they're still not included to any book. Also, after all those years
> after migrated to ReST as the official documentation format, there are still
> a lot of files using plain TXT files, with random internal formatting.
> 
> As it will likely require a lot more years to get everything converted,
> let's add index.rst files to Documentation/* subdirs, with a text_files.rst
> including all plain txt files as literal includes.
> 
> That ensures that the html output will contain the entire Linux Kernel
> documentation.

Hmm...

>  251 files changed, 5262 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

Somebody clearly thinks I haven't been involved in enough merge conflicts
recently :)

I understand the goal, but I have to wonder.  This feels a lot like giving
up on the problem and just sweeping the remaining junk into a pile
somewhere.  I feel like it would, if anything, reduce the incentive to
deal with these leftover documents properly.  

If this is *really* something we want to do, I would much rather proceed
in smaller steps and preferably with the cooperation of the maintainers
involved.  Imposing all of this at once just seems like a way to make it
highly dangerous for me to show my face a conferences...

Thoughts?

Thanks,

jon