From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFnQM-0003bc-A4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:31:10 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFnQK-0003al-BH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:31:09 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35525 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFnQK-0003ae-5h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:31:08 -0500 Received: from afflict.kos.to ([92.243.29.197]:52974) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NFnQJ-0001gG-Oc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:31:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:31:04 +0200 From: Riku Voipio Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation Message-ID: <20091202113104.GA30508@kos.to> References: <4B1565AD.10503@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B1565AD.10503@codemonkey.ws> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Blue Swirl , juha.riihimaki@nokia.com, Alexander Graf , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:51:25PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> There are some subsystems where nobody feels responsible though, >> apparently hoping 'someone else' will tske on it. Well, turns out it >> doesn't work that way. > The general problem is that someone has to step up to maintain these > subsystems. For some of them, there just isn't really a lot of interest. I and Juha can take maintainence of the omap2 (and future omap3) stuff, which obviously isn't mainted by anyone at the moment: http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg17487.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-06/msg00326.html 6 months for no action on a patch that fixes a "fails to boot" bug? No wonder the android people have forked qemu so far... > git pulls have been working really well for linux-user. I'd like to > continue that for new architectures. I can provide the patches in the same way as git pull requests.