Re: [Qemu-devel] An organizational suggestion

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Perhaps it's simply not enough people are paid to do this and
> > volunteers have other interests.  From what I've seen elsewhere, patch
> > tracking doesn't help much if there's nobody actively working on
> > integration and setting overall vision/direction.
> 
> Well, I'm certainly willing.  Perhaps I haven't made my availability
> clear enough.

A private mail to Fabrice may be in order, if you're interested in
core maintenance.  Try to involve KVM folks too, that way lies sanity.

Given the commercial tension at present between Citrix (Xen) and
Qumranet (KVM) perhaps neither of you should be the sole primary
maintainer of core systems :-)

> Xen (the whole ecosystem) is indeed very dependent on Qemu and the
> divergence between our tree and the upstream one is far too great.
> Many of our changes are entirely applicable to upstream.

I agree, and the same applies to KVM's QEMU branch, but perhaps that
diverges less than Xen's.

> I was hired by Xensource (now Citrix) specifically to work on the open
> source Xen project.  I think one of the biggest tasks for that project
> is trying to make some kind of sanity in our relationship (both code
> and people) with Qemu upstream.  So we (specifically, I) have effort
> available to help Qemu in general if this means that I can spend less
> time trying to reconcile incompatible changes to our different
> codebases.

Good plan.  I suggest not just reducing code divergence, but
clarifying QEMU's future vision with Fabrice would help too.

-- Jamie