On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 22:09:11 +0300 Laurent Pinchart wrote:

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+New, Under review  pending review, patch is in the maintainer’s queue for review  

Is there a meaningful distinction between "New" and "Under review", or
are they exactly the same ? The former sounds like nobody has looked at
the patch yet, while the latter seems to indicate someone has assigned
the task of reviewing the patch to themselves, but maybe netdev uses
those two states differently ?

The honest answer is that I don't know. I used to think that the
distinction is as you described - after someone done the initial triage
on the patch it goes New -> Under review.

But there's little consistency with that happening and it's unclear what
"initial triage" constitutes at this stage, so for all practical
purposes New == Under review.

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+Accepted           patch was applied to the appropriate networking tree, this is
+                   usually set automatically by the pw-bot
+Needs ACK          waiting for an ack from an area maintainer or testing  

How does this differ from "Under review" ?

This indicates that netdev maintainers are waiting for someone who
is not a netdev maintainer. Let me s/maintainer/expert/ to make that
clearer-ish.