From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d89QV-0006QZ-SB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2017 14:00:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d89QR-0007hC-56 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2017 13:59:59 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:43960) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d89QQ-0007gr-V8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2017 13:59:55 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A984F85376 for ; Tue, 9 May 2017 17:59:52 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 13:59:49 -0400 From: Jeff Cody Message-ID: <20170509175949.GG16494@localhost.localdomain> References: <1487770954.4687.2.camel@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1487770954.4687.2.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ipxe for qemu maintainance List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-devel , Ladi Prosek , Laszlo Ersek On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 02:42:34PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'd like to start maintaining qemu-specific branches in our ipxe.git > repo. The reason for this are some problems with the upstream ipxe > maintainance: > > * The ipxe maintainer apparently is pretty busy. Often (but not > always) it takes weeks or even months to get patches merged upstream, > which is bad in case we need a fix included quickly due to freeze > deadline approaching ... > * There is no release management whatsoever. No stable branches, > no release tags. Picking up a fix upstream means rebasing to > a snapshot which includes the fix. > > So I'd like to improve that downstream with qemu branches, where we can > commit not-yet merged patches, revert broken patches and cherry-pick > bugfixes. > > This is *NOT* meant to be a replacement for working with upstream to get > patches merged and bugs fixed. But it will allow us to handle things in > a timely manner without having to depend on the upstream maintainer. > And we can be more selective about the ipxe patches we accept during > freeze. > > I plan to also add qemu release tags to the repo, so you can easily > figure what is included in each qemu release. > > Laszlo created a wiki page for this, naming conventions for branches and > tags are listed there too: > http://wiki.qemu-project.org/IpxeDownstreamForQemu > > Comments? > It looks like there were no objections, so I've gone ahead and put you and Ladi Prosek in the ipxe.git committers. Let me know if you have any issues. Thanks, Jeff