On 03/12/2012 03:24 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
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.)
When are build-breakage fixes not trivial?
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.
I don't have any control over patchwork. I believe Michael Tsirkin is the one
that initially set it up.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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
