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

[Claudio Fontana]

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