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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: ksummit@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [TECH TOPIC] Kernel documentation
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:48:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fs6rxppz.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)

The documentation discussion at past kernel summits has been lively, so
I think we should do it again.  Some topics I would bring to a session
this year would include:

- The ongoing restructuring of the Documentation/ directory.  I've been
  slowly moving the architecture docs into Documentation/arch/, but
  would like to do more to reduce the clutter of the top-level directory
  and make our documentation tree more closely resemble the organization
  of the source.

- Structure.  We continue to collect documents, but do little to tie
  them together into a coherent whole.  Do we want to change that and,
  if so, how?

- Support for documentation work.  There is nobody in the community who
  is paid to put any significant time into documentation, and it shows.
  How can we fix that?

- Infrastructure.  Sphinx brings a lot but is far from perfect; what can
  we do to improve it?

Other topics will certainly arise as well.

jon

             reply	other threads:[~2023-06-16 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-16 17:48 Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2023-06-20 16:02 ` [TECH TOPIC] Kernel documentation Jani Nikula
2023-06-20 19:30   ` Jonathan Corbet
2023-11-20 12:06     ` Vegard Nossum
2023-11-20 13:50       ` Jonathan Corbet
2023-11-20 14:42         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2023-11-20 14:49           ` Johannes Berg
2023-11-20 20:54           ` Jonathan Corbet
2023-06-29 21:34   ` Intersphinx ([TECH TOPIC] Kernel documentation) Jonathan Corbet
2023-06-30 13:17     ` Jani Nikula
2023-06-30 16:54     ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-06-30 17:11       ` Jonathan Corbet
2023-07-02  1:46     ` Steven Rostedt
2023-07-02  4:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2023-07-02 13:18         ` James Bottomley
2023-07-02 18:32         ` Steven Rostedt
2023-07-02 18:44           ` Linus Torvalds
2023-07-03  2:46             ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-06-21 11:04 ` [TECH TOPIC] Kernel documentation Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-06-26 14:34   ` Jan Kara
2023-11-11 12:42 ` Vegard Nossum
2023-11-11 15:14   ` Jonathan Corbet
2023-11-20 12:20     ` Vegard Nossum

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