From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aurelien Jarno Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM Call agenda for July 13th Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:51:55 +0200 Message-ID: <20100715185155.GU18814@hall.aurel32.net> References: <4C3C9AF9.30405@codemonkey.ws> <4C3C9BE2.5010200@redhat.com> <201007131219.21649.iggy@theiggy.com> <20100715184328.GA16484@linuxtx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Cc: Brian Jackson , kvm-devel , Juan Quintela , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity To: "Justin M. Forbes" Return-path: Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([88.191.82.174]:33611 "EHLO hall.aurel32.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934210Ab0GOSv7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:51:59 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100715184328.GA16484@linuxtx.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net