Re: Adopting abandoned patch?

[Alex Bennée]

Dinah B <dinahbaum123@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to get more involved in contributing to QEMU. I noticed that 
> there are some issues in the tracker
> where a sample patch has been contributed but never got merged, like a 
> proposal to add multiboot2 support:
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/389

I couldn't see a patch attached to the bug report. Is it elsewhere?

>
> Is another dev allowed to "adopt" the patch as-is, with proper attribution to 
> the original dev and drive it to
> completion/merging (there are some features missing)? Or is "starting from 
> scratch" required for legal
> reasons?

It's certainly possible to pick up a patch from someone else and take it
forward. Aside from addressing any review comments I think the minimum
requirement is the authors original Signed-off-by is intact which
asserts they could contribute code to the project.

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro