linux/Documentation/process
Dan Williams 102606402f Documentation: Project continuity
Document project continuity procedures.  This is a plan for a plan for
navigating events that affect the forward progress of the canonical
Linux repository, torvalds/linux.git.

It is a follow-up from Maintainer Summit [1].

Co-developed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050179/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-24 16:16:47 -08:00
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debugging
1.Intro.rst
2.Process.rst
3.Early-stage.rst
4.Coding.rst
5.Posting.rst
6.Followthrough.rst
7.AdvancedTopics.rst
8.Conclusion.rst
adding-syscalls.rst
applying-patches.rst
backporting.rst
botching-up-ioctls.rst
changes.rst
code-of-conduct-interpretation.rst
code-of-conduct.rst
coding-style.rst
conclave.rst
contribution-maturity-model.rst
cve.rst
deprecated.rst
development-process.rst
email-clients.rst
embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
handling-regressions.rst
howto.rst
index.rst
kernel-docs.rst
kernel-driver-statement.rst
kernel-enforcement-statement.rst
license-rules.rst
maintainer-handbooks.rst
maintainer-kvm-x86.rst
maintainer-netdev.rst
maintainer-pgp-guide.rst
maintainer-soc-clean-dts.rst
maintainer-soc.rst
maintainer-tip.rst
maintainers.rst
management-style.rst
programming-language.rst
researcher-guidelines.rst
security-bugs.rst
stable-api-nonsense.rst
stable-kernel-rules.rst
submit-checklist.rst
submitting-patches.rst
volatile-considered-harmful.rst