[Qemu-devel] An organizational suggestion

[Balazs Attila-Mihaly \(Cd-MaN\)]

Hello all,

Since I've been subscribed to the list (a year or so), people have complained 
several times that patches did not get committed and they didn't know why. 
PostgreSQL (an open source database) currently uses a development process which 
I think the Qemu community could adopt and which could resolve these issues: 
every month they hold a so-called "commit-fest" when they, for a week, only 
work on committing patches. Now the exact time intervals are not important (it 
can be every three months a two week period for example), however in my 
opininion this would give a clear time-frame regarding the patches.

Of course if there is interest in adopting this kind of approach, some 
mechanism would be needed to manage the patch-queue (the patches which have not 
been committed yet) and I think that a closed Wiki (ie only members of the 
mailing list could edit it) would be a good tool. I would suggest Dokuwiki 
(http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki) because it is written in PHP (which 
is available at almost all webhosts) and requires no database backend. If you 
(and specifically Farbric) are interested I would be happy to assist in 
installing (and maintaining) it, since I already manage a Dokuwiki installation 
at work.

Best regards



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