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[80.230.85.71]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-4601f2f2710sm51175338f8f.14.2026.06.09.13.36.21 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:36:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 16:36:19 -0400 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Peter Maydell , Dorinda Bassey , Albert Esteve , Alex =?iso-8859-1?Q?Benn=E9e?= , qemu-devel , virtio-comment@lists.linux.dev, dev@lists.cloudhypervisor.org, rust-vmm@lists.opendev.org, Stefano Garzarella , Manos Pitsidianakis , Demi Marie Obenour , Alyssa Ross , Mark Burton , Matti Moell , Viresh Kumar , Sergio Lopez , Vishwanath Seshagiri , Rob Bradford , Zhengyu Zhao , "Jorge E. Moreira" , Stefan Hajnoczi Subject: Re: Where should the vhost-user specification live? Message-ID: <20260609163536-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20260601090953-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20260601151815.GC411459@fedora> <20260601160352-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20260604162853.GC115597@fedora> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: virtio-comment@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: kYxUPK27TdROP_kK8eKWz39JAWC3W263YLCR0LDx7E4_1781037385 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 03:44:49PM -0400, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 2:51 PM Peter Maydell wrote: > > > > On Tue, 9 Jun 2026 at 19:00, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > > I'm not sure if anyone brought up this topic on qemu-devel and with > > > Michael before. As I mentioned in my reply, there are ways to avoid > > > blocking vhost-user spec changes when qemu.git is frozen: > > > > > > The simplest approach is to keep merging vhost-user.rst changes during > > > freeze since it does not jeopardize the release or introduce > > > instability. > > > > I'm not enthusiastic about having "this one document is an > > exception to our freeze and release process". Because it is > > only documentation, it is in the same "we can be relatively > > relaxed about allowing in documentation changes" boat as > > most of the rest of the docs. But docs changes can break the > > build (e.g. if you mess up a rST syntax thing), so as we > > CI prevents broken rST from being merged (there are multiple jobs with > `--enable-docs`), so I'm not sure this can happen? > > > get closer to the final release we are going to get more > > strict about "is this change really necessary or can it > > wait a few weeks?", and they must at a minimum continue to obey > > the "no changes of any kind between the last RC and the final > > release" rule. > > Why is the final release candidate special? > > > And definitely if a patchseries has both > > QEMU code changes and documentation updates then that is > > going to not get applied during freeze if the code changes > > don't follow the freeze rules. > > I agree that code changes cannot be merged. > > As long as the vhost-user maintainer is confident that the spec change > is implementable and stable, they can merge the spec change on its own > without code changes. If they are not confident, then the spec change > isn't ready to be merged yet. > > Stefan I personally have been confidently wrong enough times. Maybe others know how to do better. -- MST