Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: add a MAINTAINERS entry for migration

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

On 11/15/2011 03:36 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 14.11.2011 22:08, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>> On 11/14/2011 11:40 AM, Juan Quintela wrote:
>>> Anthony Liguori<aliguori@us.ibm.com>   wrote:
>>>> I think this is an accurate reflection of the state of migration today.  This
>>>> is the second release in a row where we're scrambling to fix a critical issue
>>>> in migration.
>>>
>>> We need to make our mind about it.
>>
>> Ultimately, we need to make migration a priority.  That's what I'm trying to do
>> here.
>
> When you make everything a priority, being a priority doesn't have much
> of a meaning any more. Our current priorities are changing the entire
> device model, the monitor, migration, turning the block layer upside
> down - what's left? Okay, maybe vvfat and slirp.

Well, think of it as employment insurance :-)

>
>> The first step is to be open about the state of migration today.  I personally
>> don't have the bandwidth to invest a lot of effort in migration, but I can
>> invest time in trying to find more people to work on migration, and help put
>> together a proper roadmap.
>>
>> We need to outline and document what we support and what we don't support.  We
>> need to invest in a test infrastructure.  We need a roadmap that we can
>> reasonably execute on.  In short, we need to turn migration into a first class
>> subsystem.
>>
>> It's not about any single person or any single patch series.  It's about
>> deciding that migration is an important feature and deserves more focus and
>> attention.
>
> I don't doubt that everyone will agree with this. The harder question is
> who should concentrate less on which other feature to have time to spend
> for migration.

I don't think it's a question of trading patches in one subsystem for patches in 
another subsystem.

I think it's more about having a planned, concerted effort, that systematically 
tackles the problems we're facing in migration.

By spending more time planning, it makes it much easier for people to 
contribute.  There's a lot of interest in migration.  If we made it easier to 
participate in improving it, I'm sure we would attract at least a few more 
people to working on it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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> Kevin
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