From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM Call agenda for July 13th Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:54:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4C3F596B.4070604@codemonkey.ws> References: <4C3C9AF9.30405@codemonkey.ws> <4C3C9BE2.5010200@redhat.com> <201007131219.21649.iggy@theiggy.com> <20100715184328.GA16484@linuxtx.org> <20100715185155.GU18814@hall.aurel32.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Justin M. Forbes" , Brian Jackson , kvm-devel , Juan Quintela , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity To: Aurelien Jarno Return-path: Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:33849 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934137Ab0GOSy2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:54:28 -0400 Received: by qwh6 with SMTP id 6so313932qwh.19 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:54:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100715185155.GU18814@hall.aurel32.net> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/15/2010 01:51 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > 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. > Precisely. In the case of stable, that means watching the mailing list and backporting patches as appropriate and periodically doing pull requests. Regards, Anthony Liguori