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Date:   Wed, 23 Feb 2022 19:00:30 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: Add Researcher Guidelines
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 04:14:03PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> As a follow-up to the UMN incident[1], the TAB took the responsibility
> to document Researcher Guidelines so there would be a common place to
> point for describing our expectations as a developer community.
> 
> Document best practices researchers should follow to participate
> successfully with the Linux developer community.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202105051005.49BFABCE@keescook/
> 
> Co-developed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Co-developed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> Co-developed-by: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>
> Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Acked-by: Steve Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
> Reviewed-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>

See a comment below...

> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst           |   1 +
>  .../admin-guide/researcher-guidelines.rst     | 141 ++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 142 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/researcher-guidelines.rst

[..]

> +* What is the specific problem that has been found?
> +* How could the problem be reached on a running system?
> +* What effect would encountering the problem have on the system?
> +* How was the problem found? Specifically include details about any
> +  testing, static or dynamic analysis programs, and any other tools or
> +  methods used to perform the work.
> +* Which version of Linux was the problem was found on? Using the most

I think there is an extra "was" in the question above.

Thanks
--
Gustavo