qemu 7.2 stable release, 2nd try

qemu 7.2 stable release, 2nd try

[Michael Tokarev]

Hi!

After posting an RFC (due to me doing a stable release for the first time) and
getting exactly 0 replies/comments, I'm a bit worried, - does this mean there's
no interest in getting 7.2-stable out of the doors at all? :)

With 8.0 approaching rapidly, and with no other comments or new patches for
-stable, let's make this official within a week from now, on Mar-29.

It *feels* like quite some more changes should be picked too, but let's do
*something* after all :)

I still need some minor help with the final step, - pushing to main qemu git
repo and running the whole testsuite before the actual release.  Asking for
push/commit access for that.

Thanks,

/mjt

Re: qemu 7.2 stable release, 2nd try

[Thomas Huth]

On 22/03/2023 09.16, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> After posting an RFC (due to me doing a stable release for the first time) and
> getting exactly 0 replies/comments, I'm a bit worried, - does this mean there's
> no interest in getting 7.2-stable out of the doors at all? :)

First, thank you very much for tackling this!

... but yes, IIRC there was always not that much response to the stable 
patch series that Michael Roth posted to the list in the past, so it seems 
most developers do not really look at this :-(

> With 8.0 approaching rapidly, and with no other comments or new patches for
> -stable, let's make this official within a week from now, on Mar-29.
> 
> It *feels* like quite some more changes should be picked too, but let's do
> *something* after all :)

I agree, picking at least some patches is better than nothing!

> I still need some minor help with the final step, - pushing to main qemu git
> repo and running the whole testsuite before the actual release.  Asking for
> push/commit access for that.

I suggest asking the Owners/Maintainers of the project directly is maybe the 
best idea (see https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/project_members).

  Thomas

Re: qemu 7.2 stable release, 2nd try

[Alex Bennée]

Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> writes:

> Hi!
>
> After posting an RFC (due to me doing a stable release for the first time) and
> getting exactly 0 replies/comments, I'm a bit worried, - does this mean there's
> no interest in getting 7.2-stable out of the doors at all? :)

I'm interested - although Debian already has the "latest" stuff we need.
What do you need though, re-reviews or just simple Acked-by's for the
included patches?

>
> With 8.0 approaching rapidly, and with no other comments or new patches for
> -stable, let's make this official within a week from now, on Mar-29.
>
> It *feels* like quite some more changes should be picked too, but let's do
> *something* after all :)
>
> I still need some minor help with the final step, - pushing to main qemu git
> repo and running the whole testsuite before the actual release.  Asking for
> push/commit access for that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> /mjt


-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro

Re: qemu 7.2 stable release, 2nd try

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 28/3/23 17:28, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> writes:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> After posting an RFC (due to me doing a stable release for the first time) and
>> getting exactly 0 replies/comments, I'm a bit worried, - does this mean there's
>> no interest in getting 7.2-stable out of the doors at all? :)
> 
> I'm interested - although Debian already has the "latest" stuff we need.
> What do you need though, re-reviews or just simple Acked-by's for the
> included patches?

Michael Roth was also sending a patch series before tagging
(although not RFC). My understanding is to check if anything
is missing from the picked patches.

Re: qemu 7.2 stable release, 2nd try

[Michael Tokarev]

28.03.2023 18:28, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> writes:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> After posting an RFC (due to me doing a stable release for the first time) and
>> getting exactly 0 replies/comments, I'm a bit worried, - does this mean there's
>> no interest in getting 7.2-stable out of the doors at all? :)
> 
> I'm interested - although Debian already has the "latest" stuff we need.
> What do you need though, re-reviews or just simple Acked-by's for the
> included patches?

Well, nothing really. Since this is my first attempt ever, I hoped someone pointed
out some of mistakes which I did ;) It's definitely not that I need a personal ACK
for every change I picked up, that'd be silly.


I was AFK for a few days here, but before the trip I picked up another bunch,
mentioned by Thomas in his reply. The trip was somewhat unexpected, - I wanted
to send another "Patch round-up" email with the newly picked up stuff, but
haven't done so due to the trip.

Now looking at this I think it's better to roll the changes back to commit
688714bf7eca805f98e9601b686e48a2269fc169 (
https://gitlab.com/mjt0k/qemu/-/commits/stable-7.2-staging ), and release
7.2.1 tomorrow without those changes.

Thanks,

/mjt