Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM Call agenda for July 13th

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:43:28PM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:19:21PM -0500, Brian Jackson wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:01:22 pm Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > On 07/13/2010 07:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > >> I'd like to see more frequent stable releases, at least if the stable
> > > >> branch contains fixes to user-reported bugs (or of course security or
> > > >> data integrity fixes).
> > > > 
> > > > Would you like to see more frequent stable releases or more frequent
> > > > master releases?
> > > 
> > > Yes.  But in this context I'm interested in stable releases.  We have
> > > bugs reported, fixed, and the fix applied, yet the fixes are unreachable
> > > to users.
> > 
> > Especially so since qemu-kvm 0.12-stable hasn't been merged with qemu 
> > basically since 0.12.4 came out. I was trying to help one of the Gentoo 
> > maintainers find post 0.12.4 patches the other day and had to point them to 
> > the upstream qemu stable tree.
> 
> I have offered to take care of this, but so far I do not have commit
> access.
> 

You don't necessarily need commit access for that. Just create your own
tree with backported patches, and then send a stable pull request to 
the mailing list.

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