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It is no longer necessary to uuencode binary blobs for drivers. We can now commit the binary object to the tree as-is.

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emaste requested review of this revision.Aug 4 2021, 4:23 PM
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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Aug 4 2021, 4:28 PM

One suggested tweak you can take or leave. I'm fine with this or with my suggestion or with anything similar.

documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/policies/_index.adoc
274

I'd add something like "Until converted to native format, " at the front of this rather than removing it entirely.

documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/policies/_index.adoc
274

Yeah, maybe something like "Historically, object files were uuencoded and named ..."

Take @imp's suggestion, mention historical uuencoding.

This revision now requires review to proceed.Aug 4 2021, 4:46 PM
pauamma_gundo.com added inline comments.
documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/policies/_index.adoc
274–275

Consensus is for a single sentence per line.

One sentence per line (indented for readability as list item)

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Aug 4 2021, 5:22 PM