From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 229381A591 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2023 20:19:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="mat2w+Ht" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7B47BC433C7; Mon, 6 Nov 2023 20:19:25 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1699301965; bh=4zZA4Wz85LoJenAVGtk+Zzw9td9bLFDpuzsQXV+AbCQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=mat2w+Htma3YGx+9EgYiGWIAGzG8YRItQv83ijXIDUYorWNKhNVpDLxdczDOPekzc U2mkaf+nGA3RkWAyjQ+DfSRQtc+LYNH+9i9imEsmMmfRb9gNeA5oPe8hCeqF9YAASD 8N+D+HCNhyDYzBt16Pjd8QkMdVS7zeQn3mp3PYQwER2d8NLJy4cajo0ZU+QCiTXANT Xihz+SV4J1bdjNSiCn3acevzvptBWP6p+zJ4FJFvcpkVjPghvCNrHmNEgV3TY0eMAJ RGJ2647zDfAHKr2fLRRz9bNIQyZyuimiHjZfV4vtyeYSZOLj2q3qWSI1HlpO5TN3f9 9hrpvSldipoIQ== Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 12:19:24 -0800 From: Jakub Kicinski To: David Wei Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC Draft net-next] docs: netdev: add section on using lei to manage netdev mail volume Message-ID: <20231106121924.2e078be0@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20231105185014.2523447-1-dw@davidwei.uk> References: <20231105185014.2523447-1-dw@davidwei.uk> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.