Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM Call agenda for July 13th

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 07/15/2010 01:51 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:43:28PM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
>    
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:19:21PM -0500, Brian Jackson wrote:
>>      
>>> On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:01:22 pm Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On 07/13/2010 07:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>>> I'd like to see more frequent stable releases, at least if the stable
>>>>>> branch contains fixes to user-reported bugs (or of course security or
>>>>>> data integrity fixes).
>>>>>>              
>>>>> Would you like to see more frequent stable releases or more frequent
>>>>> master releases?
>>>>>            
>>>> Yes.  But in this context I'm interested in stable releases.  We have
>>>> bugs reported, fixed, and the fix applied, yet the fixes are unreachable
>>>> to users.
>>>>          
>>> Especially so since qemu-kvm 0.12-stable hasn't been merged with qemu
>>> basically since 0.12.4 came out. I was trying to help one of the Gentoo
>>> maintainers find post 0.12.4 patches the other day and had to point them to
>>> the upstream qemu stable tree.
>>>        
>> I have offered to take care of this, but so far I do not have commit
>> access.
>>
>>      
> You don't necessarily need commit access for that. Just create your own
> tree with backported patches, and then send a stable pull request to
> the mailing list.
>    

Precisely.  In the case of stable, that means watching the mailing list 
and backporting patches as appropriate and periodically doing pull requests.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori