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

[Brian Paul]

On 12/11/2019 10:42 AM, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:33 AM Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net 
> <mailto: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.

Between family life and VMware work, there's little left over.  I'll be 
lurking if nothing else.


>      > 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
>     <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.freedesktop.org%2Fmesa%2Fmesa&data=02%7C01%7Cbrianp%40vmware.com%7Cb98a9677779240530d4908d77e61906d%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637116829815378870&sdata=vENdTPXFgRswVXvIKNhfYf7G3msmOTYYcJ2MAvU%2BKxc%3D&reserved=0>
>     [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.

Thanks for the tip!  That's the kind of thing that would be useful to 
document.


> 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.

Are labels put on MRs automatically or does the person submitting have 
to do that manually?

-Brian