Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/10] qemu.py: Pylint/style fixes

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 09:24:16AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On 08/18/2017 10:26 AM, Lukáš Doktor wrote:
> >> Hello guys,
> >> 
> >> I'm reading the available python modules to exercise qemu and while reading them
> >> I fixed some issues that caught my attention. It usually starts with a simple
> >> pylint/docstring fixes and slowly graduates to more controversial ones so I'm
> >> open to suggestion to remove some of them.
> >> 
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Lukáš
> >> 
> >> Changes in v2
> >> - Squashed 2nd and 10th patches into 2nd one
> >> - Use repr() in MonitorResponseError's description
> >> - Improved commit message of the 6th patch
> >> - Two tweaks to docstrings changed in the 6th patch
> >> - Also updated qmp-shell to use new-style super calls (7th patch)
> >> - Fixed the accidental rename of qmp `cmd_id` (kept the id->cmd_id patch)
> >> - Changed the style of the style-fix in the 10th commit
> >> 
> >> Changes in v3
> >> - Don't use repr in the 5th patch in MonitorResponseError
> >> 
> >> Changes in v4
> >> - Use correct git base (remove unwanted commits)
> >> 
> >> Changes in v5
> >> - Avoid bool comparison
> >> - Change report to return in one docstring
> >> - Removed the unnecessary spaces around single-line docstring
> >> 
> >> Changes in v6
> >> - Bunch of docstring tweaks by Markus Armbruster
> >> - Line break in <80 chars
> >> - result dict => response dict
> >> - Removed the "event_match" rename
> >> 
> >
> > Looks like all ten patches have an R-B despite changes; but it looks
> > like nothing particularly major was changed anyway.
> >
> > Does this fall under Markus's jurisdiction?
> >
> > (Well, except for qtest.py which seemingly has double-extra-no
> > maintainer...!)
> 
> qemu.py is about starting and controlling QEMU, commonly for testing
> purposes.  It's related to QMP only by virtue of using QMP for control
> (well, what else could it use?); if that makes me maintainer, I'll soon
> maintain basically all tests :)
> 
> As far as I can tell, qemu.py's main user is still qemu-iotests, via
> qtest.py.  Dan factored it out to make it available for
> tests/migration/guestperf/.
> 
> Options for maintaining qemu.py and qtest.py:
> 
> * Maintain them with qemu-iotest
> 
>   Currently mainained with the block layer core, by Kevin and Max.
> 
>   - Keep it that way
> 
>   - Appoint qemu-iotest maintainer(s).
> 
> * Maintain them separately, say as "Python qtest support", appoint
>   maintainer(s)
> 
>   Dan appears to be a hot contender:
> 
>     $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --git-blame scripts/qtest.py 
>     Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> (authored lines:71/110=65%,commits:1/3=33%)
>     "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> (authored lines:39/110=35%,commits:2/3=67%)
>     Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> (commits:2/3=67%)
>     Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> (commits:1/3=33%)
>     Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> (commits:1/3=33%)
>     qemu-devel@nongnu.org (open list:All patches CC here)
>     $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --git-blame scripts/qemu.py 
>     "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> (authored lines:217/229=95%,commits:2/4=50%)
>     Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> (authored lines:12/229=5%,commits:4/4=100%)
>     Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> (commits:1/4=25%)
>     Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> (commits:1/4=25%)
>     Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> (commits:1/4=25%)
>     qemu-devel@nongnu.org (open list:All patches CC here)
> 
>   Eduardo made the mistake^W^W^Wgraciously volunteered to maintain
>   scripts/qmp/qmp-shell, which is also used for testing.  Perhaps he'd
>   be willing to maintain these guys as well.

I could take care of queueing patches for the Python modules on
the same tree where qmp-shell patches would be queued.  However,
I would be happier if somebody else agreed to be listed as
co-maintainer to at least help on review and decision-making.

-- 
Eduardo