Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/10] qemu.py: Pylint/style fixes

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:

> On 08/18/2017 10:26 AM, Lukáš Doktor wrote:
>> Hello guys,
>> 
>> I'm reading the available python modules to exercise qemu and while reading them
>> I fixed some issues that caught my attention. It usually starts with a simple
>> pylint/docstring fixes and slowly graduates to more controversial ones so I'm
>> open to suggestion to remove some of them.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Lukáš
>> 
>> Changes in v2
>> - Squashed 2nd and 10th patches into 2nd one
>> - Use repr() in MonitorResponseError's description
>> - Improved commit message of the 6th patch
>> - Two tweaks to docstrings changed in the 6th patch
>> - Also updated qmp-shell to use new-style super calls (7th patch)
>> - Fixed the accidental rename of qmp `cmd_id` (kept the id->cmd_id patch)
>> - Changed the style of the style-fix in the 10th commit
>> 
>> Changes in v3
>> - Don't use repr in the 5th patch in MonitorResponseError
>> 
>> Changes in v4
>> - Use correct git base (remove unwanted commits)
>> 
>> Changes in v5
>> - Avoid bool comparison
>> - Change report to return in one docstring
>> - Removed the unnecessary spaces around single-line docstring
>> 
>> Changes in v6
>> - Bunch of docstring tweaks by Markus Armbruster
>> - Line break in <80 chars
>> - result dict => response dict
>> - Removed the "event_match" rename
>> 
>
> Looks like all ten patches have an R-B despite changes; but it looks
> like nothing particularly major was changed anyway.
>
> Does this fall under Markus's jurisdiction?
>
> (Well, except for qtest.py which seemingly has double-extra-no
> maintainer...!)

qemu.py is about starting and controlling QEMU, commonly for testing
purposes.  It's related to QMP only by virtue of using QMP for control
(well, what else could it use?); if that makes me maintainer, I'll soon
maintain basically all tests :)

As far as I can tell, qemu.py's main user is still qemu-iotests, via
qtest.py.  Dan factored it out to make it available for
tests/migration/guestperf/.

Options for maintaining qemu.py and qtest.py:

* Maintain them with qemu-iotest

  Currently mainained with the block layer core, by Kevin and Max.

  - Keep it that way

  - Appoint qemu-iotest maintainer(s).

* Maintain them separately, say as "Python qtest support", appoint
  maintainer(s)

  Dan appears to be a hot contender:

    $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --git-blame scripts/qtest.py 
    Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> (authored lines:71/110=65%,commits:1/3=33%)
    "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> (authored lines:39/110=35%,commits:2/3=67%)
    Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> (commits:2/3=67%)
    Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> (commits:1/3=33%)
    Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> (commits:1/3=33%)
    qemu-devel@nongnu.org (open list:All patches CC here)
    $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --git-blame scripts/qemu.py 
    "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> (authored lines:217/229=95%,commits:2/4=50%)
    Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> (authored lines:12/229=5%,commits:4/4=100%)
    Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> (commits:1/4=25%)
    Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> (commits:1/4=25%)
    Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> (commits:1/4=25%)
    qemu-devel@nongnu.org (open list:All patches CC here)

  Eduardo made the mistake^W^W^Wgraciously volunteered to maintain
  scripts/qmp/qmp-shell, which is also used for testing.  Perhaps he'd
  be willing to maintain these guys as well.

* Do nothing

  Hope "somebody" will take pity and merge patches.  A common value of
  "somebody" would be Paolo.