Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>

- Use gender-neutral language to refer to the user, consistently.
- Reference the checkpatch document.
- Move the section on commit message tags to the process document and
  reference this in sending_patches.rst.
  - Reword the custodian workflow process section to refer to this new
    section, integrate some of the wording from there in this new section.
- Update the comment about GPLv2 applying to August 2022, to be clear
  this still is correct.
- Reword the section about MAKEALL to talk about local build testing and
  link to the CI document.
- Reference the system_configuration document for the note about
  modifying existing code.
- Reword the patchwork flow section.

Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>

Import as-is much of the old "Patches" wiki page to the current
sending_patches.rst file. This means we need to move patman to being
included in the higher level ToC and add a reference for "Custodians" in
the process document. A very minimal amount of content changing and
rewording is done here as part of the import, in order to make the
conversion easier.

Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

Replace 'disto' with 'distro' since they are all functions about distro
booting.

Signed-off-by: Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com>

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>

Explain when devices should get activated.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>

Link to patman's documentation from the doc/ directory so that it appears
in the 'make htmldocs' output.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>

This was widely used by U-Boot for a long time, but is not used anymore,
with Gitlab and Azure taking over.

Drop the text.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>

We talk about importing code from other projects in two places. The
first place is in the coding style section, where we explain when to or
not to deviate in terms of white space, etc. In the process
documentation we now add a note about saying where the code was imported
from and to ensure that you do not copy Signed-off-by or other tags.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>