[Qemu-devel] ipxe for qemu maintainance

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

  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?

cheers,
  Gerd

PS: v2, this time with the correct qemu-devel address ...