Maintainer Handbook: Maintainer Entry Profile

As presented at the 2018 Linux Plumbers conference [1], the Maintainer
Entry Profile (formerly Subsystem Profile) is proposed as a way to reduce
friction between committers and maintainers and encourage conversations
amongst maintainers about common best practices. While coding-style,
submit-checklist, and submitting-drivers lay out some common expectations
there remain local customs and maintainer preferences that vary by
subsystem.

The profile contains documentation of some of the common policy
questions a contributor might have that are local to the subsystem /
device-driver, special considerations for the subsystem, or other
guidelines that are otherwise not covered by the top-level process
documents.

The initial and hopefully non-controversial headings in the profile are:

    Overview:
    General introduction to how the subsystem operates

    Submit Checklist Addendum:
    Mechanical items that gate submission staging, or other requirements
    that gate patch acceptance.

    Key Cycle Dates:
     - Last -rc for new feature submissions: Expected lead time for submissions
     - Last -rc to merge features: Deadline for merge decisions

    Resubmit Cadence: When and preferred method to follow up with the
    maintainer

Note that coding style guidelines are explicitly left out of this list.

See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst for more details,
and a follow-on example profile for the libnvdimm subsystem.

[1]: https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/2/contributions/59/

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Cc: Steve French <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Tobin C. Harding <[email protected]>
Cc: Olof Johansson <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/157462919309.1729495.10585699280061787229.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>

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