Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RESEND2] Qemu unmaintained?

[Bernhard Kauer]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:53:49PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Wed) Sep 09 2009 [14:18:17], Bernhard Kauer wrote:
> > Its wednesday again, time to resend a patch to the list.
> > Until today the following happened in this endless story:
> > 
> >     1. I wrote an RTC driver according to the manual which works on real 
> > hardware but not on Qemu.
> >     2. I traced the bug back to the first public version of Bochs. Its 
> > seems to be also
> >        present in all derived version: Qemu, KVM, Xen, VBox...
> >     3. I send a patch to the Qemu list at least 4 times.
> >     4. I never got a single response to my patch.
> 
> It's included in Anthony's staging tree:
> 
> http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/aliguori-queue.git
> 
> which means it can be flushed to the main git tree in the near future.

Ah i missed this.


> The current process of picking up patches is not verbose at all;
> developers either have to wait till the patch magically appears in the
> git tree or keep resending it.

Yes, it would be nice to get a mail when somebody picked up the patch.


Thanks,

        Bernhard