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>
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debugging - The 3 patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to 2025-05-31 19:12:53 -07:00
1.Intro.rst docs: Fix conflicting contributor identity info 2025-04-14 10:46:41 -06:00
2.Process.rst Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer 2025-10-29 16:19:27 -06:00
3.Early-stage.rst
4.Coding.rst
5.Posting.rst docs: update the guidance for Link: tags 2025-09-15 17:22:38 -06:00
6.Followthrough.rst
7.AdvancedTopics.rst
8.Conclusion.rst
adding-syscalls.rst docs: align with scripts/syscall.tbl migration 2025-05-19 09:09:55 -06:00
applying-patches.rst
backporting.rst
botching-up-ioctls.rst
changes.rst It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: 2025-10-03 17:16:13 -07:00
code-of-conduct-interpretation.rst
code-of-conduct.rst
coding-style.rst coding-style: fix verb typo 2025-11-03 16:11:24 -07:00
conclave.rst Documentation: Project continuity 2026-01-24 16:16:47 -08:00
contribution-maturity-model.rst
cve.rst
deprecated.rst
development-process.rst
email-clients.rst
embargoed-hardware-issues.rst Documentation: embargoed-hardware-issues.rst: Add myself for Power 2025-06-18 16:38:50 +02:00
handling-regressions.rst
howto.rst
index.rst Documentation: Project continuity 2026-01-24 16:16:47 -08:00
kernel-docs.rst
kernel-driver-statement.rst
kernel-enforcement-statement.rst
license-rules.rst
maintainer-handbooks.rst
maintainer-kvm-x86.rst
maintainer-netdev.rst docs: netdev: refine 15-patch limit 2026-01-17 15:59:25 -08:00
maintainer-pgp-guide.rst Documentation: update maintainer-pgp-guide for latest best practices 2025-09-09 13:43:55 -06:00
maintainer-soc-clean-dts.rst
maintainer-soc.rst Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Mark 'make' as commands 2026-01-07 17:47:43 +01:00
maintainer-tip.rst
maintainers.rst
management-style.rst
programming-language.rst
researcher-guidelines.rst
security-bugs.rst Documentation: smooth the text flow in the security bug reporting process 2025-08-17 12:23:30 +02:00
stable-api-nonsense.rst
stable-kernel-rules.rst
submit-checklist.rst
submitting-patches.rst docs: submitting-patches: Clarify that removal of Acks needs explanation too 2025-11-29 08:30:54 -07:00
volatile-considered-harmful.rst