From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Dinah B <dinahbaum123@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Adopting abandoned patch?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:57:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jr7juo5.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH50XRfsWih++5yoZSx-3L9mzf+vGPRz2Che=_6TAuATphvXbQ@mail.gmail.com>
Dinah B <dinahbaum123@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to get more involved in contributing to QEMU. I noticed that there are some issues in the tracker
> where a sample patch has been contributed but never got merged, like a proposal to add multiboot2 support:
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/389
I couldn't see a patch attached to the bug report. Is it elsewhere?
>
> Is another dev allowed to "adopt" the patch as-is, with proper attribution to the original dev and drive it to
> completion/merging (there are some features missing)? Or is "starting from scratch" required for legal
> reasons?
It's certainly possible to pick up a patch from someone else and take it
forward. Aside from addressing any review comments I think the minimum
requirement is the authors original Signed-off-by is intact which
asserts they could contribute code to the project.
--
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-27 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-27 3:29 Adopting abandoned patch? Dinah B
2023-02-27 9:57 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2023-02-27 21:23 ` Dinah B
2023-02-27 21:34 ` Dinah B
2023-02-28 8:16 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-02-28 15:12 ` David Woodhouse
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