Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/12/2012 09:04 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
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> Am 13.03.2012 um 02:39 schrieb Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>:
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>> On 03/12/2012 08:23 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
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>>> Let's take a real world example from Linux here. 3.3-rc5 had a pretty nasty compile bug that made the build break on any 32 bit target when autofs was activated. I posted the bug plus a small bugfix upstream.
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>> We have a different model than Linux.  The development tree is only open for a short period of time followed by RCs.
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>> Our development tree is open for a long time.  There isn't as great a sense of urgency to fix things out-of-band when you're talking about an active development cycle.  If we were in -rc, it'd be a completely different discussion.
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>> Really, the issue here is communication.  The default assumption is that a subsystem is owned by the subsystem maintainer.  If you want a patch to go through another channel, just say so.  It happens constantly.  It's very normal for people to ask me to apply a patch directly instead of doing a PULL request.
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>> But honestly, if we made a habit of cherry picking patches in areas with an active maintainer, we would now be talking about how we don't respect subsystems.
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> Yeah, we probably will never get the perfect model that fits everyone. Let's just try, give our best and move on ;).

Agreed!

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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