On 11/15/2011 03:36 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 14.11.2011 22:08, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
On 11/14/2011 11:40 AM, Juan Quintela wrote:
Anthony Liguori<aligu...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
I think this is an accurate reflection of the state of migration today. This
is the second release in a row where we're scrambling to fix a critical issue
in migration.
We need to make our mind about it.
Ultimately, we need to make migration a priority. That's what I'm trying to do
here.
When you make everything a priority, being a priority doesn't have much
of a meaning any more. Our current priorities are changing the entire
device model, the monitor, migration, turning the block layer upside
down - what's left? Okay, maybe vvfat and slirp.
Well, think of it as employment insurance :-)
The first step is to be open about the state of migration today. I personally
don't have the bandwidth to invest a lot of effort in migration, but I can
invest time in trying to find more people to work on migration, and help put
together a proper roadmap.
We need to outline and document what we support and what we don't support. We
need to invest in a test infrastructure. We need a roadmap that we can
reasonably execute on. In short, we need to turn migration into a first class
subsystem.
It's not about any single person or any single patch series. It's about
deciding that migration is an important feature and deserves more focus and
attention.
I don't doubt that everyone will agree with this. The harder question is
who should concentrate less on which other feature to have time to spend
for migration.
I don't think it's a question of trading patches in one subsystem for patches in
another subsystem.
I think it's more about having a planned, concerted effort, that systematically
tackles the problems we're facing in migration.
By spending more time planning, it makes it much easier for people to
contribute. There's a lot of interest in migration. If we made it easier to
participate in improving it, I'm sure we would attract at least a few more
people to working on it.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
Kevin
