From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: David Wei <dw@davidwei.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC Draft net-next] docs: netdev: add section on using lei to manage netdev mail volume
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 12:19:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231106121924.2e078be0@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231105185014.2523447-1-dw@davidwei.uk>
On Sun, 5 Nov 2023 10:50:14 -0800 David Wei wrote:
>
> +Managing emails
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
How about adding this section before "Patch review" ?
> +netdev is a busy mailing list with on average over 200 emails received per day,
> +which can be overwhelming to beginners. Rather than subscribing to the entire
> +list, considering using ``lei`` to only subscribe to topics that you are
> +interested in. Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote excellent tutorials on using ``lei``:
> +
> + - https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/lore-lei-part-1-getting-started
> + - https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/lore-lei-part-2-now-with-imap
> +
> +As a netdev beginner, you may want to filter out driver changes and only focus
> +on core netdev changes. Try using the following query with ``lei q``::
> +
> + lei q -o ~/Mail/netdev \
> + -I https://lore.kernel.org/all \
> + -t '(b:b/net/* AND tc:netdev@vger.kernel.org AND rt:2.week.ago..'
Let's add a sentence pointing out the b:b/net hack and why it's needed.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-06 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-05 18:50 [RFC Draft net-next] docs: netdev: add section on using lei to manage netdev mail volume David Wei
2023-11-06 11:24 ` Matthieu Baerts
2023-11-06 16:57 ` David Wei
2023-11-07 12:06 ` Matthieu Baerts
2023-11-06 20:19 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
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