Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/10] qemu.py: Pylint/style fixes

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 22/08/2017 09:24, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> On 08/18/2017 10:26 AM, Lukáš Doktor wrote:
>>> Hello guys,
>>>
>>> I'm reading the available python modules to exercise qemu and while reading them
>>> I fixed some issues that caught my attention. It usually starts with a simple
>>> pylint/docstring fixes and slowly graduates to more controversial ones so I'm
>>> open to suggestion to remove some of them.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Lukáš
>>>
>>> Changes in v2
>>> - Squashed 2nd and 10th patches into 2nd one
>>> - Use repr() in MonitorResponseError's description
>>> - Improved commit message of the 6th patch
>>> - Two tweaks to docstrings changed in the 6th patch
>>> - Also updated qmp-shell to use new-style super calls (7th patch)
>>> - Fixed the accidental rename of qmp `cmd_id` (kept the id->cmd_id patch)
>>> - Changed the style of the style-fix in the 10th commit
>>>
>>> Changes in v3
>>> - Don't use repr in the 5th patch in MonitorResponseError
>>>
>>> Changes in v4
>>> - Use correct git base (remove unwanted commits)
>>>
>>> Changes in v5
>>> - Avoid bool comparison
>>> - Change report to return in one docstring
>>> - Removed the unnecessary spaces around single-line docstring
>>>
>>> Changes in v6
>>> - Bunch of docstring tweaks by Markus Armbruster
>>> - Line break in <80 chars
>>> - result dict => response dict
>>> - Removed the "event_match" rename
>>>
>>
>> Looks like all ten patches have an R-B despite changes; but it looks
>> like nothing particularly major was changed anyway.
>>
>> Does this fall under Markus's jurisdiction?
>>
>> (Well, except for qtest.py which seemingly has double-extra-no
>> maintainer...!)
> 
> qemu.py is about starting and controlling QEMU, commonly for testing
> purposes.  It's related to QMP only by virtue of using QMP for control
> (well, what else could it use?); if that makes me maintainer, I'll soon
> maintain basically all tests :)
> 
> As far as I can tell, qemu.py's main user is still qemu-iotests, via
> qtest.py.  Dan factored it out to make it available for
> tests/migration/guestperf/.
> 
> Options for maintaining qemu.py and qtest.py:
> 
> * Maintain them with qemu-iotest
> 
>   Currently mainained with the block layer core, by Kevin and Max.
> 
>   - Keep it that way
> 
>   - Appoint qemu-iotest maintainer(s).
> 
> * Maintain them separately, say as "Python qtest support", appoint
>   maintainer(s)
> 
>   Dan appears to be a hot contender:
> 
>     $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --git-blame scripts/qtest.py 
>     Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> (authored lines:71/110=65%,commits:1/3=33%)
>     "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> (authored lines:39/110=35%,commits:2/3=67%)
>     Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> (commits:2/3=67%)
>     Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> (commits:1/3=33%)
>     Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> (commits:1/3=33%)
>     qemu-devel@nongnu.org (open list:All patches CC here)
>     $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --git-blame scripts/qemu.py 
>     "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> (authored lines:217/229=95%,commits:2/4=50%)
>     Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> (authored lines:12/229=5%,commits:4/4=100%)
>     Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> (commits:1/4=25%)
>     Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> (commits:1/4=25%)
>     Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> (commits:1/4=25%)
>     qemu-devel@nongnu.org (open list:All patches CC here)
> 
>   Eduardo made the mistake^W^W^Wgraciously volunteered to maintain
>   scripts/qmp/qmp-shell, which is also used for testing.  Perhaps he'd
>   be willing to maintain these guys as well.
> 
> * Do nothing
> 
>   Hope "somebody" will take pity and merge patches.  A common value of
>   "somebody" would be Paolo.

Paolo is disappearing for two weeks starting Saturday, so you have
plenty of time to find another solution. :)

Paolo