linux/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst, branch v6.8

docs: netdev: update the link to the CI repo

2024-02-20T10:52:41Z

Netronome graciously transferred the original NIPA repo to our new netdev umbrella org. Link to that instead of my private fork. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240216161945.2208842-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

docs: netdev: try to guide people on dealing with silence

2023-11-21T22:35:43Z

There has been more than a few threads which went idle before the merge window and now people came back to them and started asking about next steps. We currently tell people to be patient and not to repost too often. Our "not too often", however, is still a few orders of magnitude faster than other subsystems. Or so I feel after hearing people talk about review rates at LPC. Clarify in the doc that if the discussion went idle for a week on netdev, 95% of the time there's no point waiting longer. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120200109.620392-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

docs: try to encourage (netdev?) reviewers

2023-10-15T13:26:51Z

Add a section to netdev maintainer doc encouraging reviewers to chime in on the mailing list. The questions about "when is it okay to share feedback" keep coming up (most recently at netconf) and the answer is "pretty much always". Extend the section of 7.AdvancedTopics.rst which deals with reviews a little bit to add stuff we had been recommending locally. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli Reviewed-by: Martin Habets Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

docs: netdev: update the netdev infra URLs

2023-09-04T09:59:13Z

Some corporate proxies block our current NIPA URLs because they use a free / shady DNS domain. As suggested by Jesse we got a new DNS entry from Konstantin - netdev.bots.linux.dev, use it. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

docs: netdev: document patchwork patch states

2023-09-04T08:39:20Z

The patchwork states are largely self-explanatory but small ambiguities may still come up. Document how we interpret the states in networking. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

docs: netdev: recommend against --in-reply-to

2023-08-24T18:25:38Z

It's somewhat unfortunate but with (my?) the current tooling if people post new versions of a set in reply to an old version managing the review queue gets difficult. So recommend against it. Reviewed-by: Martin Habets Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230823154922.1162644-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

docs: netdev: update the URL of the status page

2023-07-12T03:27:00Z

Move the status page from vger to the same server as mailbot. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230710174636.1174684-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

docs: netdev: broaden mailbot to all MAINTAINERS

2023-07-01T12:16:59Z

Reword slightly now that all MAINTAINERS have access to the commands. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

docs: netdev: document the existence of the mail bot

2023-05-24T04:11:54Z

We had a good run, but after 4 weeks of use we heard someone asking about pw-bot commands. Let's explain its existence in the docs. It's not a complete documentation but hopefully it's enough for the casual contributor. The project and scope are in flux so the details would likely become out of date, if we were to document more in depth. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230522140057.GB18381@nucnuc.mle/ Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522230903.1853151-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

docs: netdev: clarify the need to sending reverts as patches

2023-03-29T06:51:05Z

We don't state explicitly that reverts need to be submitted as a patch. It occasionally comes up. Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230327172646.2622943-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski