On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 10:16 PM Matthew Grooms <mgro...@shrew.net> wrote:
> Yup. See above. I appreciate your input, but the goal of live migration > was set in 2016 with a prototype first demonstrated in 2018. How long do > you suggest a developer wait without review feedback before moving forward > out of tree? > Yea..I'd say a submitter should receive feedback within a week (or so) and when that passes, try rattling the cage of relevant developers to ack a timeline. My comments for the live/warm migration review is to rebase it after the snapshot feature is compiled in by default. > Yup. That approach was attempted with the Warm Migration patches. From > slide 17 in Elena's presentation: > > First review opened in 2021: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28270 > 5 reviews from 2022 starting with https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34717 > (same feature split in multiple parts) > I understand that, as a submitter, this is frustrating - to spend a non-trivial amount of time preparing/submitting a review and then receive no feedback, not even a "changes too big" or "nope". For future reference, if UPB does another project - might be worth trying to seek out a FreeBSD mentor that could guide the students and be willing to usher the changes in, not unlike a GSOC project.
