Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 6/6] MAINTAINERS: Remove obsolete stable branches

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/01/2017 17:34, Michael Roth wrote:
> Quoting Thomas Huth (2017-01-10 01:54:40)
>> On 10.01.2017 04:32, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:11:43AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>> There are only very old and orphaned stable branches listed
>>>> in the MAINTAINERS file - so this section is pretty useless
>>>> nowadays. Let's remove it.
>>>>
>>>> Reviewed-by: John Snow <address@hidden>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could you add some kind of entry for stable though?
>>> Otherwise people won't know which address to CC.
>>
>> I think that's a question to Michael Roth - whether such an entry should
>> be added and how it should look like.
> 
> Hmm, not sure how to make this very readable. Something like this
> perhaps?
> 
> Stable branches
> ---------------
> Current M.(N-1) Stable Branch (e.g. v2.8 if latest M.N.0 release was v2.9.0)
> M: Michael Roth <address@hidden>
> L: address@hidden
> T: git git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git stable-M.(N-1)
> S: Supported

I would just say

Stable branches
---------------
Current Stable Branch (e.g. v2.8 if latest M.N.0 release was v2.9.0)
M: Michael Roth <address@hidden>
L: address@hidden
S: Supported

Is the stable git tree used in practice, except in the days right before
a release?

Paolo

>>
>>  Thomas
>>
>>
>>>> ---
>>>>  MAINTAINERS | 22 ----------------------
>>>>  1 file changed, 22 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> index d8575ab..4a60579 100644
>>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> @@ -1574,28 +1574,6 @@ F: tcg/tci/
>>>>  F: tci.c
>>>>  F: disas/tci.c
>>>>  
>>>> -Stable branches
>>>> ----------------
>>>> -Stable 1.0
>>>> -L: address@hidden
>>>> -T: git git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu-stable-1.0.git
>>>> -S: Orphan
>>>> -
>>>> -Stable 0.15
>>>> -L: address@hidden
>>>> -T: git git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu-stable-0.15.git
>>>> -S: Orphan
>>>> -
>>>> -Stable 0.14
>>>> -L: address@hidden
>>>> -T: git git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu-stable-0.14.git
>>>> -S: Orphan
>>>> -
>>>> -Stable 0.10
>>>> -L: address@hidden
>>>> -T: git git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu-stable-0.10.git
>>>> -S: Orphan
>>>> -
>>>>  Block drivers
>>>>  -------------
>>>>  VMDK
>>>> -- 
>>>> 1.8.3.1
>>>>
>>
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