Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: add a MAINTAINERS entry for migration

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 14.11.2011 22:08, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 11/14/2011 11:40 AM, Juan Quintela wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori<aliguori@us.ibm.com>  wrote:
>>> I think this is an accurate reflection of the state of migration today.  This
>>> is the second release in a row where we're scrambling to fix a critical issue
>>> in migration.
>>
>> We need to make our mind about it.
> 
> Ultimately, we need to make migration a priority.  That's what I'm trying to do 
> here.

When you make everything a priority, being a priority doesn't have much
of a meaning any more. Our current priorities are changing the entire
device model, the monitor, migration, turning the block layer upside
down - what's left? Okay, maybe vvfat and slirp.

> The first step is to be open about the state of migration today.  I personally 
> don't have the bandwidth to invest a lot of effort in migration, but I can 
> invest time in trying to find more people to work on migration, and help put 
> together a proper roadmap.
> 
> We need to outline and document what we support and what we don't support.  We 
> need to invest in a test infrastructure.  We need a roadmap that we can 
> reasonably execute on.  In short, we need to turn migration into a first class 
> subsystem.
> 
> It's not about any single person or any single patch series.  It's about 
> deciding that migration is an important feature and deserves more focus and 
> attention.

I don't doubt that everyone will agree with this. The harder question is
who should concentrate less on which other feature to have time to spend
for migration.

Kevin