On 12 March 2012 20:12, Stefan Weil <s...@weilnetz.de> wrote: > I agree that more maintainers would be good, but we also need > more people with commit rights. Why? There a many examples of > urgent patches (= patches which fix broken builds) which take > several days even when they were reviewed before they finally > are committed.
I agree that that's a specific area it would be nice to do better in. It seems to me that the qemu-trivial process for sweeping up trivial patches has been working well; maybe we could use a slightly more formal qemu-urgent process for flagging up build breakage etc? (Personally I'd support a rule that any outstanding build-breakage fixes must always go in before anything else.) > Only two maintainers are allowed to make full use of the patchwork > (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-devel/) infrastructure. > Why not all maintainers? I tried to get myself added to the maintainers list (with agreement from Anthony) for that a long time ago and got zero response from the people running that patchwork instance. A good patchwork instance is really useful -- the Linaro one is set up with hooks into monitoring git, so patches that are committed move automatically to 'accepted', for instance. [It's only semi-automatic, though, and I don't know if it would still be as useful with the much higher volume qemu gets.] -- PMM
