Re: [Qemu-devel] qapi/misc.json is too big, let's bite off a few chunks

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> writes:

> On 6/7/19 8:59 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> [...]
>> QOM is not a particularly active subsystem now: 51 commits in two years.
>> 
>> We obviously need maintainers to review and merge patches.  The nominal
>> maintainer hasn't been doing that since 2015.  Git shows the following
>> top committers taking on / getting sucked into QOM:
>> 
>>     Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>>     Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
>>     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>>     Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
>>     Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
>> 
>> We really need nominal maintainer(s) again.
>> 
>> Of course, *active* maintainers would be even better: I consider QOM
>> stuck in an unhappy place where much of its potential is still
>> potential.
>> 
>> But let's start small.  Volunteers for the reviewer role, please step
>> forward :)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The details I promised:
>> 
>> Output of "scripts/get_maintainer.pl --git --git-since='2-years-ago' |
>> grep commit_signer" sorted by file size:
>> 
> [...]
>> = include/qom/object_interfaces.h =
>> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> (commit_signer:8/5=100%)
>> Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> (commit_signer:3/5=60%)
>> "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> (commit_signer:2/5=40%)
>> "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org> (commit_signer:2/5=40%)
>> Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
>
> get_maintainer's commit_signer is lying...

Any of Signed-off-by:, Reviewed-by:, Acked-by: counts as
"commit_signer".

[...]
>> = qom/trace-events =
>> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> (commit_signer:2/2=100%)
>> "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com> (commit_signer:2/2=100%)
>> Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> (commit_signer:1/2=50%)
>> Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> (commit_signer:1/2=50%)
>
> This 'git log -p' history of this file is very interesting...

Papershuffling...