Re: [Qemu-devel] qapi/misc.json is too big, let's bite off a few chunks

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 08:59:31AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On 27/05/19 10:00, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >> As long as we don't have an active QOM maintainer[*], the benefit is
> >> low.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> [*] We need one.  I'm not volunteering.
> >
> > I think Daniel, Eduardo and I could count as de facto maintainer.  I
> > guess I could maintain it if I get two partners in crime as reviewers.
> 
> Alright, we need two volunteers for the reviewer role, and one patch to
> MAINTAINERS.
> 
> A mention in MAINTAINERS is the traditional punishment for good work, so
> let's see who's been doing the work.  Aha:
> 
>     Eduardo Habkost
>     Marc-André Lureau
>     Markus Armbruster
>     Eric Blake
>     Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
> 
> Details appended.
> 
> QOM is not a particularly active subsystem now: 51 commits in two years.
> 
> We obviously need maintainers to review and merge patches.  The nominal
> maintainer hasn't been doing that since 2015.  Git shows the following
> top committers taking on / getting sucked into QOM:
> 
>     Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>     Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
>     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>     Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
>     Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> 
> We really need nominal maintainer(s) again.
> 
> Of course, *active* maintainers would be even better: I consider QOM
> stuck in an unhappy place where much of its potential is still
> potential.
> 
> But let's start small.  Volunteers for the reviewer role, please step
> forward :)

I'm happy to be a reviewer since I understand the code fairly well.
I don't want to volunteer to be maintainer as I can't promise to
be timely at dealing with yet another patch queue.

Regards,
Daniel
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