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

[Michael Roth]

Quoting Paolo Bonzini (2017-01-10 10:45:02)
> 
> 
> 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?

Generally not on my end, but it's possible downstreams make use of them
as a means to just grab the latest stable release (though I don't know if
this is actually the case or not). I agree that having it in MAINTAINERS
isprobably of limited usefulness though.

I *would* like to have a fairly consistent tree that's updated more regularly
that people could target for backports and such, but that would probably
be via my stable-N.M-staging tree on github. Perhaps I should point
people there instead? Unfortunately that still requires some amount of
variable substitution.

> 
> 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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