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From: | Alexander Graf |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] CFP: 1st International QEMU Users Forum |
Date: | Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:03:20 +0100 |
Wolfgang, On 25.11.2010, at 11:30, wolfgang mueller wrote:
The complaint is mostly that you have not approached the community, yes :).
I guess we should really remove most traces of Fabrice if he isn't even helpful enough to direct you to the mailing list. The maintainer situation should be explained in the MAINTAINERS file in the qemu source tree. Apparently the last attempt to redo that file and make it contain actual current information failed. Sigh. There is a group of people with commit rights to the source tree. Each of them have special and in general different fields of interest. There are also several submaintainers who keep track of subsystems, but don't have commit rights and route everything through the few people with commit rights. In general, it's similar to the Linux kernel, but with a schizophrenic Linus. So the "right thing" to do would have been to send a mail to the qemu-devel mailing list, asking for feedback. The right people definitely do read the list.
Don't worry about me. I feel myself in general rather representing minorities in qemu. The closest to a "leader" position in qemu these days is probably Anthony Liguori. CC'ing him.
This is exactly the reason I approached you sceptic on the whole thing. Qemu is _very_ diverse. It ranges from prototyping non-existing hardware over user-space only emulation to virtualization. Each of the different aspects have their very own issues and traction. The group that's the most active currently is the virtualization crowd. Which target audience are you going for?
After checking on the pricing for previous years I agree with you :).
As stated above, things are more difficult than that, but I agree. We do have annual KVM Forum meetings where we gather all the virtualization people from Qemu as well and talk about things there. The slides and recordings are publicly available, if you're interested: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2010. In general, people surrounding KVM meet quite a bit. For the emulation side, things look different. I'm not aware of any traction on the emulation side of Qemu. Getting people together for that one is certainly lacking. I'm not sure I'm the right person to talk to there. If nobody else steps up, I could barely play the role of someone who knows what he's talking about, but I'm myself more of a virtualization person too. So it all boils down to the audience you're expecting. From the announcement and colocation with DATE, I assume you're looking mostly for SystemC integration? That probably plays well into the emulation piece. I don't think that doing yet another 'normal' virtualization focused event would be beneficial - we get plenty of gatherings around that already. Alex |
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