Re: [RFC + PATCHES] Work to get KVM autotest upstream

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>   
>> I'd definitely like to see patches to the list before committing; we do
>> the same for kvm, qemu etc, not sure why kvm-autotest should be any
>> different.  On the other hand, it's not currently being done that way
>> and I'm not losing any sleep over it; it's easy enough to git log and
>> and email the list if you break something or think something should be
>> done differently.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> If you have, or can have, a publicly visible git tree with your changes, you
> can generate pull requests from time to time. Then the job of the maintainer
> will be only to sanitize your tree, make sure it is in overall good shape, and
> merge it to the main stream.
>   

The advantage to posting non-trivial patches (beyond review) is that it 
helps people learn about how things are being developed and makes it 
easier to for others to get involved.  It forces a lot of the design 
discussions to happen on the mailing list.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori