Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Summit 2018 minutes

[Eric Blake]

On 11/16/18 11:23 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> As usual, during this year's KVM Forum we also held the
> QEMU Summit, which is where the more active subsystem
> maintainers meet up for a discussion of various maintenance
> and other project issues. As always, none of this is set-in-stone
> decisions; further input and discussion on-list is welcome.

>   * QEMU Leadership Committee: Are changes to committee membership
>     necessary (it's been 3 years)?
>
>     The Leadership Committee represents QEMU in the Software Freedom
>     Conservancy (the legal home for our project).  At the moment no
>     urgent changes are necessary, but we're open to suggestions for new
>     members.

No urgent changes were necessary at the time of the KVM Forum, but 
subsequent announcements about the IBM and Red Hat relationship may 
require a change in the next year, to avoid having too many members from 
the same company.

>   * MAINTAINERS "R:" (designated reviewer): should this be open to
>     anyone?
>
>     The maintainer still merges patches, but R: people have expressed an
>     interest in reviewing patches and should be CCed.  There is debate as
>     to what exactly R: means.  R: doesn't imply that the person is a
>     maintainer although it is sometimes considered as having authority
>     over the code.
>
>     Cornelia Huck will send patch to clarify the exact meaning of R:.  It
>     will be up to the maintainer to decide who can be added to R:.

Patch available here, if you want to add discussion:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg02996.html

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