On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 08:58:14AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

We appear to have a gap in our process docs. We go into detail
on how to contribute code to the kernel, and how to be a subsystem
maintainer. I can't find any docs directed towards the thousands
of small scale maintainers, like folks maintaining a single driver
or a single network protocol.

I'm not super comfortable with all of the musts here but this is
probably fine so

Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

One note:

+Maintainers must be human, however, it is not acceptable to add a mailing
+list or a group email as a maintainer. Trust and understanding are the
+foundation of kernel maintenance and one cannot build trust with a mailing
+list.

If you're revising this I'd add a note about the L: tag in MAINTAINERS
here, or possibly just adding a list in addition to humans.  It is
sensible and often helpful for companies to want to get mail copied to a
wider distribution list internally but they're not really what we mean
by list since external people typically can't join them.