netdev - Re: net: dcb: Communication challenges for patch reviews?

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Message-ID: <ed7020cb-cee5-16af-55f1-f1adac08f1b6@web.de>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:48:48 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>, Lin Ma <linma@....edu.cn>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
 Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@...rochip.com>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Jeff Kirsher
 <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
 Petr Machata <petrm@...dia.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: net: dcb: Communication challenges for patch reviews?

> Simon reviewed the patch already.

It seems that some reviewers do not care so much about the recommended application
of imperative mood for improved change descriptions.

> Don't listen to Markus.

I hope that further suggestions (including remaining patches) will get more
development attention so that the change acceptance will evolve accordingly.

> He's banned from vger.

Is this historic action a questionable side effect of known recurring
communication difficulties?

How many contributors are blocked so far?

There are also participants who are still more open to some change ideas.

> https://lore.kernel.org/all/2023073123-poser-panhandle-1cb7@gregkh/

I imagine that the “intelligence” can be improved also for
“the semi-friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman”.

How “nonsensical or otherwise pointless” do you find review comments
which remind requirements from the Linux development documentation
for a discussed patch?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.5-rc4#n3

Regards,
Markus