Re: QEMU Summit Minutes 2023

["Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>]

On 11/21/23 18:11, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> 
>> QEMU Summit Minutes 2023
>> ========================
>>
>> As usual, we held a QEMU Summit meeting at KVM Forum.  This is an
>> invite-only meeting for the most active maintainers and submaintainers
>> in the project, and we discuss various project-wide issues, usually
>> process stuff. We then post the minutes of the meeting to the list as
>> a jumping off point for wider discussion and for those who weren't
>> able to attend.
>>
> <snip>
>>
>> Topic 2: Are we happy with the email workflow?
>> ==============================================
>>
>> This was a topic to see if there was any consensus among maintainers
>> about the long-term acceptability of sticking with email for patch
>> submission and review -- in five years' time, if we're still doing it
>> the same way, how would we feel about it?
>>
>> One area where we did get consensus was that now that we're doing CI
>> on gitlab we can change pull requests from maintainers from via-email
>> to gitlab merge requests. This would hopefully mean that instead of
>> the release-manager having to tell gitlab to do a merge and then
>> reporting back the results of any CI failures, the maintainer
>> could directly see the CI results and deal with fixing up failures
>> and resubmitting without involving the release manager. (This
>> may have the disbenefit that there isn't a single person any
>> more who looks at all the CI results and gets a sense of whether
>> particular test cases have pre-existing intermittent failures.)
> 
> If we are keen to start processing merge requests for the 9.0 release we
> really should consider how it is going to work before we open up the
> taps post 8.2-final going out.
>
> Does anyone want to have a go at writing an updated process for
> docs/devel/submitting-a-pull-request.rst (or I guess merge-request) so
> we can discuss it and be ready early in the cycle? Ideally someone who
> already has experience with the workflow with other gitlab hosted
> projects.


Reading the Topic 2 paragraph above, I understand that a maintainer
of a subsystem would be able to merge its '-next' branch in the main
repository when CI is all green. Correct ?

It seems to me that we should also have a group of people approving
the MR.

Thanks,

C.