Re: [PATCH V4 0/2] migration file URI

[Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>]

On 8/30/23 15:09, Claudio Fontana wrote:
> On 8/22/23 15:25, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Hi Claudio,
>>
>> On 22/8/23 14:00, Claudio Fontana wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> this series is all reviewed,
>>>
>>> and is needed as a precondition for further work to improve dramatically the performance of virsh save, virsh restore
>>> when migrating to disk, can it be merged?
>>
>> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f migration/meson.build
>> Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> (maintainer:Migration)
>> Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> (reviewer:Migration)
>> Leonardo Bras <leobras@redhat.com> (reviewer:Migration)
>> qemu-devel@nongnu.org (open list:All patches CC here)
>>
>> One maintainer, one single point of failure. When the
>> maintainer is busy or offline (vacations?) then everybody
>> is stuck.
>>
>> This is usually solved by adding co-maintainers.
>>
>> Juan, would you accept having co-maintainers helping you
>> dealing with the merge process? I'm not volunteering, but
>> this can be a good opportunity to make a formal request to
>> the community.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phil.
>>
> 
> Thanks Philippe,
> 
> I would like to highlight to the QEMU community here how important this is for SUSE,
> 
> to see progress for all the series in the migration area that are currently still waiting and competing for attention.
> 
> The specific features and improvements we are developing or helping to review are a priority for us,
> and we are concerned about the rate of progress with the existing governance processes.
> 
> Fabiano is investing a lot of his attention to this area, with features, bugfixes and reviews,
> but of course it is up to the community as a whole to address the issue so that reviewed work is merged.
> 
> My attempt here is to make sure that it is recognized as a problem, so it can be hopefully be addressed by the community in a timely fashion,
> and we can all benefit from the already developed and reviewed work that is pending.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> CLaudio
> 
> 

Hi Juan, any comments? Would additional help for co-maintenance of live migration help?
How can we make things proceed?

From our (SUSE) side we are willing to help as much as we can, and all options are open,
whatever it takes to get the multiple series currently waiting to flow again.

Thanks,

Claudio