On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:17:26PM -0600, Michael Roth wrote: > Quoting Michael S. Tsirkin (2017-01-10 11:43:24) > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:27:58AM -0600, Michael Roth wrote: > > > Quoting Paolo Bonzini (2017-01-10 10:45:02) > > > > > > > > > > > > On 10/01/2017 17:34, Michael Roth wrote: > > > > > Quoting Thomas Huth (2017-01-10 01:54:40) > > > > >> On 10.01.2017 04:32, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > >>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:11:43AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > > > > >>>> There are only very old and orphaned stable branches listed > > > > >>>> in the MAINTAINERS file - so this section is pretty useless > > > > >>>> nowadays. Let's remove it. > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> Reviewed-by: John Snow <js...@redhat.com> > > > > >>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> Could you add some kind of entry for stable though? > > > > >>> Otherwise people won't know which address to CC. > > > > >> > > > > >> I think that's a question to Michael Roth - whether such an entry > > > > >> should > > > > >> be added and how it should look like. > > > > > > > > > > Hmm, not sure how to make this very readable. Something like this > > > > > perhaps? > > > > > > > > > > Stable branches > > > > > --------------- > > > > > Current M.(N-1) Stable Branch (e.g. v2.8 if latest M.N.0 release was > > > > > v2.9.0) > > > > > M: Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > > > > L: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org > > > > > T: git git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git stable-M.(N-1) > > > > > S: Supported > > > > > > > > I would just say > > > > > > > > Stable branches > > > > --------------- > > > > Current Stable Branch (e.g. v2.8 if latest M.N.0 release was v2.9.0) > > > > M: Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > > > L: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org > > > > S: Supported > > > > > > > > Is the stable git tree used in practice, except in the days right before > > > > a release? > > > > > > Generally not on my end, but it's possible downstreams make use of them > > > as a means to just grab the latest stable release (though I don't know if > > > this is actually the case or not). I agree that having it in MAINTAINERS > > > isprobably of limited usefulness though. > > > > > > I *would* like to have a fairly consistent tree that's updated more > > > regularly > > > that people could target for backports and such, but that would probably > > > be via my stable-N.M-staging tree on github. Perhaps I should point > > > people there instead? Unfortunately that still requires some amount of > > > variable substitution. > > > > Do you need multiple trees? Why not have branches? > > Sorry, by "tree" I meant branch, e.g.: > > https://github.com/mdroth/qemu/tree/stable-2.7-staging > https://github.com/mdroth/qemu/tree/stable-2.6-staging
I would say T: git git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git stable-M.(N-1) conveys that clearly. > etc. Or were you suggesting something else? > > I don't think I can do something like a single stable-current-staging > branch since there's often some overlap between stable releases for N > and N-1 cycles, and the N branches aren't direct descendants of N-1 > (not sure if that's what you were suggesting). > > > > > > > > > > > Paolo > > > > > > > > >> > > > > >> Thomas > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >>>> --- > > > > >>>> MAINTAINERS | 22 ---------------------- > > > > >>>> 1 file changed, 22 deletions(-) > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > > > >>>> index d8575ab..4a60579 100644 > > > > >>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS > > > > >>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > > > >>>> @@ -1574,28 +1574,6 @@ F: tcg/tci/ > > > > >>>> F: tci.c > > > > >>>> F: disas/tci.c > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> -Stable branches > > > > >>>> ---------------- > > > > >>>> -Stable 1.0 > > > > >>>> -L: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org > > > > >>>> -T: git git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu-stable-1.0.git > > > > >>>> -S: Orphan > > > > >>>> - > > > > >>>> -Stable 0.15 > > > > >>>> -L: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org > > > > >>>> -T: git git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu-stable-0.15.git > > > > >>>> -S: Orphan > > > > >>>> - > > > > >>>> -Stable 0.14 > > > > >>>> -L: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org > > > > >>>> -T: git git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu-stable-0.14.git > > > > >>>> -S: Orphan > > > > >>>> - > > > > >>>> -Stable 0.10 > > > > >>>> -L: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org > > > > >>>> -T: git git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu-stable-0.10.git > > > > >>>> -S: Orphan > > > > >>>> - > > > > >>>> Block drivers > > > > >>>> ------------- > > > > >>>> VMDK > > > > >>>> -- > > > > >>>> 1.8.3.1 > > > > >>>> > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
