1.. _development_process_main: 2 3A guide to the Kernel Development Process 4========================================= 5 6Contents: 7 8.. toctree:: 9 :numbered: 10 :maxdepth: 2 11 12 1.Intro 13 2.Process 14 3.Early-stage 15 4.Coding 16 5.Posting 17 6.Followthrough 18 7.AdvancedTopics 19 8.Conclusion 20 21The purpose of this document is to help developers (and their managers) 22work with the development community with a minimum of frustration. It is 23an attempt to document how this community works in a way which is 24accessible to those who are not intimately familiar with Linux kernel 25development (or, indeed, free software development in general). While 26there is some technical material here, this is very much a process-oriented 27discussion which does not require a deep knowledge of kernel programming to 28understand. 29