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Re: [Qemu-devel] qapi/misc.json is too big, let's bite off a few chunks
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Daniel P . Berrangé |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] qapi/misc.json is too big, let's bite off a few chunks |
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Fri, 7 Jun 2019 10:59:30 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.11.4 (2019-03-13) |
On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 08:59:31AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 27/05/19 10:00, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >> As long as we don't have an active QOM maintainer[*], the benefit is
> >> low.
> >>
> >>
> >> [*] We need one. I'm not volunteering.
> >
> > I think Daniel, Eduardo and I could count as de facto maintainer. I
> > guess I could maintain it if I get two partners in crime as reviewers.
>
> Alright, we need two volunteers for the reviewer role, and one patch to
> MAINTAINERS.
>
> A mention in MAINTAINERS is the traditional punishment for good work, so
> let's see who's been doing the work. Aha:
>
> Eduardo Habkost
> Marc-André Lureau
> Markus Armbruster
> Eric Blake
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
>
> Details appended.
>
> QOM is not a particularly active subsystem now: 51 commits in two years.
>
> We obviously need maintainers to review and merge patches. The nominal
> maintainer hasn't been doing that since 2015. Git shows the following
> top committers taking on / getting sucked into QOM:
>
> Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
> Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
> Eric Blake <address@hidden>
>
> We really need nominal maintainer(s) again.
>
> Of course, *active* maintainers would be even better: I consider QOM
> stuck in an unhappy place where much of its potential is still
> potential.
>
> But let's start small. Volunteers for the reviewer role, please step
> forward :)
I'm happy to be a reviewer since I understand the code fairly well.
I don't want to volunteer to be maintainer as I can't promise to
be timely at dealing with yet another patch queue.
Regards,
Daniel
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