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docs: fix up the maintainer profile document

Add blank lines where needed to get the document to render properly. Also
add a TOC of existing profiles just so that the nvdimm profile is linked
into the toctree, is discoverable, and doesn't generate a warning.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
··· 18 18 tells the contributor where to send patches for which files, it does not 19 19 convey other subsystem-local infrastructure and mechanisms that aid 20 20 development. 21 + 21 22 Example questions to consider: 23 + 22 24 - Are there notifications when patches are applied to the local tree, or 23 25 merged upstream? 24 26 - Does the subsystem have a patchwork instance? Are patchwork state ··· 57 55 opening. Clarify for the submitter the key dates (in terms rc release 58 56 week) that patches might considered for merging and when patches need to 59 57 wait for the next -rc. At a minimum: 58 + 60 59 - Last -rc for new feature submissions: 61 60 New feature submissions targeting the next merge window should have 62 61 their first posting for consideration before this point. Patches that ··· 75 72 resubmit for the following merge window. 76 73 77 74 Optional: 75 + 78 76 - First -rc at which the development baseline branch, listed in the 79 77 overview section, should be considered ready for new submissions. 80 78 ··· 89 85 full series, or privately send a reminder email. This section might also 90 86 list how review works for this code area and methods to get feedback 91 87 that are not directly from the maintainer. 88 + 89 + Existing profiles 90 + ----------------- 91 + 92 + For now, existing maintainer profiles are listed here; we will likely want 93 + to do something different in the near future. 94 + 95 + .. toctree:: 96 + :maxdepth: 1 97 + 98 + ../nvdimm/maintainer-entry-profile