From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46996) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIFc4-0003EA-GZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:33:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIFbx-0003O0-TY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:33:07 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54157) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIFbx-0003Nc-O3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:33:01 -0400 References: <1465975543-14874-1-git-send-email-mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> <1466432365-11908-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <714a39c6-5fe1-f23c-bca3-f5deb3a6f098@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 15:32:57 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/2] MAINTAINERS: Remove Blue Swirl leftovers List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Ed Maste , Markus Armbruster Cc: qemu-devel , Peter Maydell , mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk On 29/06/2016 15:24, Ed Maste wrote: > On 20 June 2016 at 10:19, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> >> As per Paolo's recommendation, downgrade status of "BSD user" from >> Maintained to Orphan since the FreeBSD guys effectively forked it, and >> "SPARC target" from Maintained to Odd Fixes, since we still have the >> overall TCG maintainer looking after it. > > Note that we are still very interested in having the BSD user > refactoring and improvements upstream, and are not interested in > indefinitely carrying around a fork. We do need to figure out how to > effectively restart the effort to upstream the work. > > The bsd-user work is stable and usable. We use it to cross-build more > than 20,000 packages of third-party software in the FreeBSD ports > collection. Honestly I'm wondering if a huge code drop could be the right solution here. It's not how we usually do things, but rules exist to be broken... Paolo