On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 05:06:15PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > Hi all, > I don't mean to steer any controversy or start any flame wars here, but > rather I want to point out a problem in the QEMU Community that is > preventing us and other people from having a good experience working > upstream with QEMU. Call it constructive criticism. > > Patches are being posted to the list that don't get any reviews at all. > Other patches get reviewed the first time, then once they are reposted > they don't get any other reviews or acked-by or reviewed-by. > > As a whole it takes biblical times to get through the QEMU review > process. I wonder how any commercial company with deadlines would be able > to cope with them. Even the Xen Community, that is far from a commercial > company, is having difficulties with them and now upstream QEMU is at > risk of missing the 4.2 release target. > > > We need more people reviewing patches. And we need more maintainers. > > > Anthony Liguori is still the maintainer for many areas within QEMU, and > he is clearly too busy for that. We need more people helping him review > patches for source files like savevm.c and vl.c. > > I believe in leading by example, so Anthony Perard and I will try to > review more patch series, even outside Xen support in QEMU, starting > from now. > I hope more people will start to do the same to the point that it will > get natural to add more names and email addresses to the MAINTAINERS > file. > > I hope that other people will recognize that this is a problem and be > willing to step up to find a solution. > > Thanks, > > Stefano >
Thanks Stefano. I plan on doing a lot of work with migration in the future, and as such try to keep tabs on the migration-related stuff on qemu-devel. I often don't get around to actually reviewing things though, and that's been nagging me for a while now, so this is a good point for me to start doing a better job of it. I'll try to review any migration stuff I see, and anyone needing a second set of eyes feel free to CC me or ping me on IRC.
