From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MloZ4-0007SB-Md for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:40:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MloYz-0007NV-PK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:40:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39241 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MloYz-0007NH-0O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:40:09 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:41932) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MloYy-0003ru-Ez for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:40:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4AA9481D.1090508@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:40:29 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RESEND2] Qemu unmaintained? References: <20090902074905.GB25711@chrom.inf.tu-dresden.de> <20090909121817.GA21997@chrom.inf.tu-dresden.de> <4AA7A6EC.10907@codemonkey.ws> <20090910070336.GD3351@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4AA90592.7080100@codemonkey.ws> <4AA90F7F.2030709@redhat.com> <4AA92122.3050103@codemonkey.ws> <4AA924AE.8060807@redhat.com> <4AA927D8.7000900@codemonkey.ws> <4AA92ADF.80003@redhat.com> <1252607396.3403.57.camel@blaa> In-Reply-To: <1252607396.3403.57.camel@blaa> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mark McLoughlin Cc: Amit Shah , Bernhard Kauer , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 09/10/2009 09:29 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 19:35 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > >> Unfairly picking on Mark (who usually writes truly excellent changelogs, >> but this one is such a gem): >> >> >>> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/19] Suppress more more kraxelism >>> >>> Let's kick off this series with some of the more critical fixes. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin >>> >>> >> What would you be thinking hunting the commit log for some change and >> coming up with this? >> >> (Mark, apologies for picking on you, it's truly unfair of me, but I >> can't help it) >> > As you say, I normally try very hard with my changelogs, but I don't > think the odd joke hurts much. > Jokes are fine, but the commit log is sacred. > - This "apply everything, test at length, reject problematic patches" > appears to lead to a very batchy patch flow; there's a trade off to > be made between trying to catch every regression before it hits the > tree and the delay that effort introduces before the tree gets more > widely tested by others > For qemu.git I'd agree since it's undergoing a lot of churn. Unfortunately it also feeds qemu-kvm.git which I try very hard to keep regression-free (and finding and fixing regressions during a merge is quite horrible), so I'd really appreciate it if qemu.git quality didn't deteriorate. (and we're quite far from catching every regression btw). Anthony, how long are your test cycles? -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.