From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46153) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZc28-0007kV-UR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:46:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZc23-0003R0-2m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:46:44 -0400 Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:64112) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZc22-0003Qw-T8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:46:39 -0400 Message-ID: <542D10E7.9090300@imgtec.com> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 09:46:31 +0100 From: Leon Alrae MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <542C1F52.6070901@imgtec.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] pending target-mips patches List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Anthony Liguori , Aurelien Jarno , "afaerber@suse.de" Hi Peter, On 01/10/2014 17:32, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 1 October 2014 16:35, Leon Alrae 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