On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 02:42:34PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'd like to start maintaining qemu-specific branches in our ipxe.git > repo. The reason for this are some problems with the upstream ipxe > maintainance: > > * The ipxe maintainer apparently is pretty busy. Often (but not > always) it takes weeks or even months to get patches merged upstream, > which is bad in case we need a fix included quickly due to freeze > deadline approaching ... > * There is no release management whatsoever. No stable branches, > no release tags. Picking up a fix upstream means rebasing to > a snapshot which includes the fix. > > So I'd like to improve that downstream with qemu branches, where we can > commit not-yet merged patches, revert broken patches and cherry-pick > bugfixes. > > This is *NOT* meant to be a replacement for working with upstream to get > patches merged and bugs fixed. But it will allow us to handle things in > a timely manner without having to depend on the upstream maintainer. > And we can be more selective about the ipxe patches we accept during > freeze. > > I plan to also add qemu release tags to the repo, so you can easily > figure what is included in each qemu release. > > Laszlo created a wiki page for this, naming conventions for branches and > tags are listed there too: > http://wiki.qemu-project.org/IpxeDownstreamForQemu > > Comments? >
It looks like there were no objections, so I've gone ahead and put you and Ladi Prosek in the ipxe.git committers. Let me know if you have any issues. Thanks, Jeff
