Re: [Qemu-devel] Patch Round-up for stable 1.5.1, freeze on 2013-06-19

[mdroth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 03:29:46PM +0200, Frederic Konrad wrote:
> On 13/06/2013 15:21, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >Am 13.06.2013 14:44, schrieb Frederic Konrad:
> >>On 12/06/2013 23:41, Michael Roth wrote:
> >>>Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>>The following new patches are queued for QEMU stable v1.5.1:
> >>>
> >>>https://github.com/mdroth/qemu/commits/stable-1.5-staging
> >>>
> >>>The release is planned for 2013-06-26:
> >>>
> >>>http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.5
> >>>
> >>>Please respond here or CC qemu-stable@nongnu.org on any patches you
> >>>think should be included in the release. The cut-off date is
> >>>2013-06-19 for new patches.
> >>>
> >>>Testing/feedback is greatly appreciated.
> >>And it seems you forget "virtio-rng: Fix crash with non-default backend".
> >>You said you'll pick it up for 1.5.1 ;)
> >It's not yet committed to master, so cannot be cherry-picked into the
> >queue yet. Waiting for it myself. ;)
> >
> >Andreas
> >
> Oh ok, so it need to be in master for being merged in stable?

Yes. There are exceptions in rare cases (such as preventing WW3), but
for the most part we need patches to get the full scrutiny of going
through upstream review process before we pull them into a stable
branch.

Same reason why:

"virtio-scsi: forward scsibus for virtio-scsi-pci"

isn't in yet. If you're targeting a patch for a stable release and think
it may not make it upstream in time consider pinging the respective
maintainers if it's had enough time for review.

> 
> I didn't know that ;)
> 
> Fred
>