On 06/15/2017 06:15 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 14 June 2017 at 11:55, Antonio Huete Jiménez > <tuxi...@quantumachine.net> wrote: >> According to 2.9 changelog page, DragonFly BSD will be listed as unsupported >> with the possibility of dropping support completely in the future: >> >> http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.9 >> >> I'd like to volunteer so that qemu can keep DragonFly BSD as a supported >> platform. >> Could you please let me know the requirements needed to do so? > > Thanks for volunteering! > > So, what we need comes in two parts: > (1) a machine we can use for our build tests (ie which I can have > an ssh account on; we may set up more formal continuous-integration > later). Since I don't know the BSDs somebody else needs to be > handling sysadmin work for it. > At a pinch, detailed instructions on how to set up a VM on > Linux running DragonFly BSD would do; we have those for some > of the BSDs here: http://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/BSD > > (2) somebody who's prepared to list themselves as the maintainer > for the host OS, and respond to problems/patches relating to it. > In particular the first thing will be to ensure that QEMU actually > builds and passes 'make check' on this OS and submit any patches > needed to fix problems. If there are any non-upstream patches > lurking around in a ports system, then you'll also want to start > cleaning those up and getting them upstream. > > When we get to the point where we have a machine in our > standard build-and-test setup which passes 'make && make check' > then we can drop the "this is unsupported" note from configure. > > thanks > -- PMM >
Peter, do we have a wiki page detailing what it takes to get an operating system considered "supported" with hints and tips for prospective maintainers? Perhaps we could and include a link to the deprecation warnings. (Then again, how many times will this be useful again in the future? How many operating systems could there be that care about QEMU? ...) --js
