Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-stable] [PATCH 0/3] ARM: three easy patches for coverity-reported issues

[Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Quoting Paolo Bonzini (2014-02-18 07:53:33)
> Il 18/02/2014 13:44, Andreas Färber ha scritto:
> >> > There isn't really a standard criterion.  It's up to each maintainer to
> >> > be stricter or looser on what goes to stable.
> > The criteria is pretty simple: Was the breakage in the last release
> > already or was it introduced only intermittently.
> 
> You haven't defined breakage; what breakage deserves a change in a 
> stable release.  Some interpret it as regression, some as "any bug", 
> some as "any crash bug", and so on.

Personally I think it's fair to punt that determination to the stable
maintainers: if it's a bug that existed in a previous release, however minor,
and you or someone else cares enough to cc: qemu-stable about, it's a
reasonable *candidate* for consideration.

Factors like whether it breaks guest ABI, migration compatibility, is too risky
a backport, etc, should be considered, but if unsure it's fine to punt to stable
and let the filtering happen there. If it's rejected/problematic stable should
provide a response/reason and the discussion can go from there.

Perhaps this may need to be revisited in the future if traffic to qemu-stable
becomes unwieldly but I don't think we're there yet.

> 
> Paolo