Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU 0.14.0 release plan

[Anthony Liguori]

On 11/29/2010 01:58 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 29.11.2010, at 20:29, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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> > Is 2 just right?
> >      
> I was thinking of a more sophisticated model. Maybe 1 maintainer + 1 user? Or 1 
> person who knows his way around the area + 1 more?
>    

+ 1 user?  cute :-)

2 Acks seems like a good place to start.

> >      
> > > > Thoughts?
> > > >
> > > >          
> > > Please set up a mailing list we can just CC for stable candidates, so they 
> > > don't get lost. Motivation for keeping track of stable stuff differs between 
> > > developers and it's essential to make the kick-off easily accessible. It's 
> > > worked out very well for Linux, so why not for us?
> > >
> > >        
> > Is the desire to filter mail or have private discussions that are not on 
> > qemu-devel?
> >
> > If it's the former, a [STABLE] tag in the subject would work just as well.  If 
> > it's the later, I think it runs contrary to the goal of getting more people 
> > involved in stable.
> >      
> The desire is to have an easy to set tag. [STABLE] to me indicates that the 
> patch is specifically made for stable. CC to stable@ tells me that the patch 
> should go into stable as soon as it's submitted upstream and if it doesn't 
> apply cleanly, the stable maintainer nags the author about a backport.
>    

Okay, as long as stable is just there for CC and qemu-devel stays in the 
loop.  Can't do it right now but remind me again when Savannah is back up.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Alex
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