Re: [PATCH] docs/about: propose OS platform/arch support tiers

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 06:01:23PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Informally we have approximately three groups of platforms
> 
>  * Tier 1: fully built and fully tested by CI. Must always be
>            kept working & regressions fixed immediately
> 
>  * Tier 2: fully built and partially tested by CI. Should
>            always be kept working & regressions fixed quickly
> 
>  * Tier 3: code exists but is not built or tested by CI.
>            Should not be intentionally broken but not
> 	   guaranteed to work at any time. Downstream must
> 	   manually test, report & fix bugs.
> 
> Anything else is "unclassified" and any historical code
> remnants may be removed.
> 
> It is somewhat tricky to define unambiguous rules for each tier,
> but this doc takes a stab at it. We don't need to cover every
> eventuality. If we get the core points of view across, then it
> at least sets the direction for maintainers/contributors/users.
> Other aspects can be inferred with greater accuracy than today.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> This came out of the discussion about recent unnoticed breakage
> in NetBSD builds and what maintainers are expected todo about
> it (if anything)
> 
>   https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2026-01/msg02543.html
> 
>  docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 152 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

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