Re: [Qemu-devel] pending target-mips patches

[Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com>]

Hi Peter,

On 01/10/2014 17:32, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 1 October 2014 16:35, Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com> wrote:
>> I noticed that it's quite difficult to get target-mips changes
>> reviewed/accepted. There is already a queue of relatively big features
>> and bug fixes which are stuck for months. Does anyone have an idea how
>> to improve this situation? Wouldn't it help to have a target-mips
>> co-maintainer assisting Aurelien?
> 
> I agree that an active co-maintainer for target-mips would
> be a good idea. Is anybody volunteering? (Are you? :-))

I would be happy to help maintaining target-mips, but I'm wondering if
there are any more experienced (especially in legacy MIPS) volunteers.

> If somebody wants to take on this job, a good first start
> would be to assemble a git tree of patches which have got
> code review (ie which have accumulated at least one
> reviewed-by tag and aren't the subject of on-list
> disagreement about whether they're correct), test it, and
> submit it as a pull request (in the right format, and with
> your signed-off-by lines on the patches and any reviewed-by
> or acked-by lines from the list)... If somebody does that
> I will take a look at the result and if I'm happy with it
> I'll apply them.

Sounds straightforward, thanks.

Regards,
Leon