Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.7] configure: Explicitly set ARFLAGS so we can build with GNU Make 4.0

[Peter Maydell]

On 5 November 2013 19:31, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 05.11.2013 20:09, schrieb Peter Maydell:
>> I don't think there's any need to respin a patch
>> just because somebody thinks it might be worth
>> applying to stable.
>
> Point is, if you are ping'ing Anthony to apply this with his
> fully-automated patches tool, then he won't add the Cc and in turn it
> will unlikely be backported to 1.6.2.
>
> The response I got at QEMU Summit was that it is both the contributor's
> and the submaintainer's responsibility to add the Cc to the commit
> message. But maybe you're going to tell me that I misunderstood that as
> well...

I don't remember what people said particularly, but I don't
think our process for stable should rely on patch submitters
having to add cc tags and resend stuff because that's a
lot of faff for something most people don't care about.
Whoever is maintaining stable ought IMHO to be making their
own judgements about whether a fix is worth backporting
based on their criteria for what kind of fix to put in
that branch.

-- PMM