Re: [PATCH v12 00/19] Initial support for multi-process Qemu

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

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On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:24:46AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 11:14, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:40:11PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > I would prefer to see this going through the tree of an
> > > established QEMU developer who's already sending pullrequests,
> > > at least initially.
> >
> > Once the discussion has completed I can send the patches in a pull
> > request.
> >
> > I don't want to be the bottleneck for all multi-process QEMU patches in
> > the future though. That's why I think the authors should be able to send
> > pull requests on their own after the initial code is merged. Much of
> > this work is isolated an only affects multi-process QEMU and the feature
> > is marked experimental. There is little risk of introducing instability
> > for non-multi-process QEMU users/developers. Hence why this is a new
> > subsystem and has MAINTAINERS files entries.
> 
> My reasoning is basically that new pull-request senders are more
> work for me, because I have to make sure they have a GPG key set
> up, and then examine pull requests pretty carefully to check they're
> well-formed, all the sign-offs are correct, the changes aren't
> touching areas of the codebase that they shouldn't, and so on.
> That's particularly painful if the first pull request that comes
> through is a massive one rather than "here's a small number of
> patches with some bug fixes".

Thanks for explaining. I will merge this series when review has
finished and send you a pull request.

Stefan

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