Add some documentation on how to implement a new distribution

docs/distribution-policy.md

@@ -37,3 +37,24 @@ these requirements. However, you can still use mkosi with the
 distribution by setting the `Distribution` setting to `custom` and
 implementing either providing the rootfs via a skeleton tree or base
 tree, or by providing the rootfs via a prepare script.
+
+# Implementing new distributions
+
+To actually implement a new distribution, the following checklist can be
+used:
+
+- Add the distribution to the `Distribution` enum
+- Add the implementation of the distribution in `mkosi/distributions`.
+ If the distribution is a variant of an existing distribution, inherit
+ from the existing distribution's installer class and only override the
+ necessary methods.
+- Update any relevant methods on the `Distribution` enum to take the new
+ distribution into account.
+- Update the documentation in `mkosi/resources/mkosi.md`
+- Update the default initrd, tools and default image configurations in
+ `mkosi/resources/mkosi-initrd`, `mkosi/resources/mkosi-tools` and
+ `mkosi.conf.d` respectively. If the distribution is a variant of
+ another existing distribution, update the `[Match]` blocks for the
+ existing distribution to also match against the new distribution. To
+ test whether all necessary changes were made, you can run
+ `mkosi -d <distribution> --tools-tree -t disk -f qemu`.