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Documentation/process: Add Linux Kernel Contribution Maturity Model
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 8 Mar 2023 19:04:03 +0000 (14:04 -0500)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:22:59 +0000 (12:22 -0600)
commit10a29eb658b3039eccfa6f249da079194f535a9a
tree73806a28294cce98997dfcdb35254b2de929281e
parent456ef6b08364de29b0f2c851577f1ec87815c8e2
Documentation/process: Add Linux Kernel Contribution Maturity Model

As a follow-up to a discussion at the 2021 Maintainer's Summit on the
topic of maintainer recruitment and retention, the TAB took on the
task of creating a document which to help companies and other
organizations to grow in their ability to engage with the Linux Kernel
development community, using the Maturity Model[2] framework.

The goal is to encourage, in a management-friendly way, companies to
allow their engineers to contribute with the upstream Linux Kernel
development community, so we can grow the "talent pipeline" for
contributors to become respected leaders, and eventually kernel
maintainers.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/870581/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maturity_model

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Co-developed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230308190403.2157046-1-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/process/contribution-maturity-model.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
Documentation/process/index.rst
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