Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesda, August 28th

[Anthony Liguori]

Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 02:15:30PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 07:59:47PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> >> Am 28.08.2012 16:27, schrieb Eduardo Habkost:
>> >> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 02:55:56PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> >> >> On 28 August 2012 14:30, Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> >>> - 1.2 branching, or creation of a "cpu-next" tree where "good to be
>> >> >>>   merged" patches can live until 1.2 is done;
>> >> >>
>> >> >> With 1.3 due for release in just over a week, it seems unlikely
>> >> >> that it's worth branching at this point...
>> >> > 
>> >> > Well, the closer to the release, the smaller the cost of branching as we
>> >> > won't have many patches entering the 1.2 branch, anyway.
>> >> 
>> >> The idea behind the new release model is to never branch for releases,
>> >> so that we can easily bisect between v1.2 and v1.3, both tags being on
>> >> the same branch. So I don't think a 1.2 branch is likely.
>> >
>> > That means that every branch to be merged after 1.2 has to be rebased on
>> > top of 1.2 before being merged?
>> 
>> I'd prefer not to do next trees unless it's for a clear subsystem that
>> already exists and will continue to exist.
>> 
>> If someone wants to be a CPU subsystem maintainer, that's great, and we
>> can keep the tree open regardless of the release.  But just having a
>> temporary tree for 3 weeks is more pain than it's worth.
>
> How exactly this would cause pain? I am already maintaining a branch for
> myself with a huge list of patches, to be able to continue working on
> things I want to send to 1.3.
>
> The difference is that in addition to that, I am willing to gather the
> patches that seem to be "ready to go" on a more stable branch, and send
> them as a single pull request (or even a plain patch series by mail) to
> the list once 1.2 is out.

Patches sent during the release window usually don't have enough so just
pulling them sort of defeats the purpose.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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> Eduardo