[Mesa-dev] Is it time to stop using the mailing list for patch review?

Jason Ekstrand jason at jlekstrand.net
Wed Dec 11 17:42:47 UTC 2019


On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:33 AM Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:

> On 2019-12-11 5:47 p.m., Brian Paul wrote:
> >
> > I've had little time for Mesa work the past 18 months.
>
> That makes me sad, I hope you'll have more time again in the future.
>
>
> > 1. I don't think the mesa-dev list should be shut down nor purged from
> > the documentation.
>
> Yeah, I don't think anybody seriously suggested the list should be shut
> down, just that GitLab is now preferred for patch submission & review.
>
>
> > Someone mentioned hardly reading the mailing list anymore.  I still
> > haven't gotten into the habit of monitoring the MRs page...
>
> Instead of monitoring a web page, I recommend setting up notifications
> via the bell icon on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa [0]. If
> you select "Custom", you can select in detail which events you want to
> get notification e-mails for. Check "New merge request" to get an e-mail
> for each new MR created. Then you can either enable notifications for
> other MR events here as well, or enable all notifications for MRs you're
> interested in using the "Notifications" switch in the right hand panel
> on each MR's page.
>

You can also subscribe to specific labels which is what I've done.  That
way I get e-mails about anything going on in NIR or our Vulkan driver but
don't have to see every nouveau MR.
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