[Qemu-devel] RFC RFC

[Qemu-devel] RFC RFC

[Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy]

Hi

Can anybody explain what the reasons, politics and consequences of 
adding RFC into patch header in this mailing list? I think, it is not 
worth to add this information to 
http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch

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Best regards,
Vladimir

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC RFC

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 February 2015 at 17:10, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
<vsementsov@parallels.com> wrote:
> Can anybody explain what the reasons, politics and consequences of adding
> RFC into patch header in this mailing list? I think, it is not worth to add
> this information to http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch

"RFC" means "Request For Comments" and is a statement that you don't
intend for your patchset to be applied to master, but would like some
review on it anyway. Reasons for doing this include:
 * the patch depends on some pending kernel changes which haven't
   yet been accepted, so the QEMU patch series is blocked until that
   dependency has been dealt with, but is worth reviewing anyway
 * the patch set is not finished yet (perhaps it doesn't cover all
   use cases or work with all targets) but you want early review of
   a major API change or design structure before continuing

In general, since it's asking other people to do review work
on a patchset that the submitter themselves is saying shouldn't
be applied, it's best to:
 * use it sparingly
 * in the cover letter, be clear about why a patch is an RFC,
   what areas of the patchset you're looking for review on,
   and why reviewers should care

-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC RFC

[Eric Blake]

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On 02/18/2015 01:10 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Can anybody explain what the reasons, politics and consequences of
> adding RFC into patch header in this mailing list? I think, it is not
> worth to add this information to
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch

Peter's response was great, but this page is a wiki.  Would you like to
add the information yourself, now that you have it?

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC RFC

[Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy]

On 18.02.2015 17:01, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/18/2015 01:10 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Can anybody explain what the reasons, politics and consequences of
>> adding RFC into patch header in this mailing list? I think, it is not
>> worth to add this information to
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
> Peter's response was great, but this page is a wiki.  Would you like to
> add the information yourself, now that you have it?
>
Hm.. I have no account on the wiki and registration is disabled.

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Best regards,
Vladimir

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC RFC

[Max Filippov]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
<vsementsov@parallels.com> wrote:
> On 18.02.2015 17:01, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 02/18/2015 01:10 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>>> Can anybody explain what the reasons, politics and consequences of
>>> adding RFC into patch header in this mailing list? I think, it is not
>>> worth to add this information to
>>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
>>
>> Peter's response was great, but this page is a wiki.  Would you like to
>> add the information yourself, now that you have it?
>>
> Hm.. I have no account on the wiki and registration is disabled.

I've created an account for you. Details in private message.

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Thanks.
-- Max

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC RFC

[Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy]

On 18.02.2015 17:01, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/18/2015 01:10 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Can anybody explain what the reasons, politics and consequences of
>> adding RFC into patch header in this mailing list? I think, it is not
>> worth to add this information to
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
> Peter's response was great, but this page is a wiki.  Would you like to
> add the information yourself, now that you have it?
>
done.

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Best regards,
Vladimir