@@ -470,15 +470,31 @@ in your patch description.
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If you cannot condense your patch set into a smaller set of patches,
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then only post say 15 or so at a time and wait for review and integration.
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+ 5. Document your changes
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+ ------------------------
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+ If you have added or modified any user-facing functionality, such
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+ as CLI commands or their output, then the patch series or pull request
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+ must include appropriate updates to documentation.
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+ It is the submitter's responsibility to make the changes, and the reviewer's
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+ responsibility to make sure they are not merging changes that do not
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+ have the needed updates to documentation.
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+ Where there are areas that have absent documentation, or there is no
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+ clear place to note the change that is being made, the reviewer should
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+ contact the component lead, who should arrange for the missing section
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+ to be created with sufficient detail for the patch submitter to
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+ document their changes.
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- 5 . Style check your changes
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+ 6 . Style check your changes
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Check your patch for basic style violations, details of which can be
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found in CodingStyle.
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- 6 . No MIME, no links, no compression, no attachments. Just plain text
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+ 7 . No MIME, no links, no compression, no attachments. Just plain text
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Developers need to be able to read and comment on the changes you are
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