Re: Announcement of aborting HAXM maintenance

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 03:56:04AM +0000, Wang, Wenchao wrote:
> Hi, Philippe,
> 
> Intel decided to abort the development of HAXM and the maintenance
> of its QEMU part. Should we submit a patch to mark the Guest CPU
> Cores (HAXM) status as Orphan and remove the maintainers from the
> corresponding list? Meanwhile, should the code enabling HAX in QEMU
> once committed by the community be retained?

If you no longer intend to work on QEMU bits related to HAXM, then
yes, you should send a patch for the MAINTAINERS file to remove you
name and mark it as "Orphan" status.

We would not normally delete code from QEMU, merely because it has
been orphaned. If it is still known to work then we would retain
it indefinitely, unless some compelling reason arises to drop it.
This gives time for any potential users to adjust their plans,
and/or opportunity for other interested people to take over the
maintenance role.

With regards,
Daniel
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