linux/Documentation/process/index.rst
Kees Cook aa20485528 doc-rst: Programmatically render MAINTAINERS into ReST
In order to have the MAINTAINERS file visible in the rendered ReST
output, this makes some small changes to the existing MAINTAINERS file
to allow for better machine processing, and adds a new Sphinx directive
"maintainers-include" to perform the rendering.

Features include:
- Per-subsystem reference links: subsystem maintainer entries can be
  trivially linked to both internally and external. For example:
  https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainers.html#secure-computing

- Internally referenced .rst files are linked so they can be followed
  when browsing the resulting rendering. This allows, for example, the
  future addition of maintainer profiles to be automatically linked.

- Field name expansion: instead of the short fields (e.g. "M", "F",
  "K"), use the indicated inline "full names" for the fields (which are
  marked with "*"s in MAINTAINERS) so that a rendered subsystem entry
  is more human readable. Email lists are additionally comma-separated.
  For example:

    SECURE COMPUTING
	Mail:	  Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
	Reviewer: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
		  Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
	SCM:	  git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git seccomp
	Status:	  Supported
	Files:	  kernel/seccomp.c include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
		  include/linux/seccomp.h tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/*
		  tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h
		  userspace-api/seccomp_filter
	Content regex:	\bsecure_computing \bTIF_SECCOMP\b

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-10-02 10:03:17 -06:00

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.. raw:: latex
\renewcommand\thesection*
\renewcommand\thesubsection*
.. _process_index:
Working with the kernel development community
=============================================
So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot
to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important
to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make
it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of
trouble.
Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
license-rules
howto
code-of-conduct
code-of-conduct-interpretation
development-process
submitting-patches
programming-language
coding-style
maintainer-pgp-guide
email-clients
kernel-enforcement-statement
kernel-driver-statement
Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
changes
submitting-drivers
stable-api-nonsense
management-style
stable-kernel-rules
submit-checklist
kernel-docs
deprecated
embargoed-hardware-issues
maintainers
These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
lack of a better place.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
applying-patches
adding-syscalls
magic-number
volatile-considered-harmful
clang-format
.. only:: subproject and html
Indices
=======
* :ref:`genindex`