Re: Adopting abandoned patch?

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 04:34:12PM -0500, Dinah B wrote:
> It looks like the author didn't include a "Signed off" in their patch draft
> and it doesn't look like Debian qemu-kvm maintainers ever merged it.
> Does this change the patch adoption process?
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 4:23 PM Dinah B <dinahbaum123@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, here's the original patch:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=2;bug=621529;filename=multiboot2.patch;msg=15

That is unfortunate. That patch is very large and complex, so I don't
think we'd be willing to take it without a Signed-off-by from the
original author.

It is quite old, but try emailing the original author, you might
get lucky and find their email addr still works

With regards,
Daniel
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