[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken
From: |
Markus Armbruster |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken |
Date: |
Sat, 10 May 2014 08:25:52 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) |
Brad Smith <address@hidden> writes:
> On 09/05/14 7:35 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 10 May 2014 00:02, Brad Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 08/05/14 10:54 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>> Ah, bsd-user. Do you actually use it, or is it just
>>>> in the default compile that you're running?
>>
>>> I do not use it personally but it is common sense that commits
>>> must not be breaking the build.
>>
>> I generally agree, but the minor ports (roughly, anything
>> not x86 Linux) are inevitably going to get broken from time
>> to time, because not everybody has access to all those
>> systems to test on. bsd-user is particularly bad because
>> it is a large chunk of code only built for BSD and it's
>> not really maintained right now. (Hence my interest in
>> whether it actually has users or if we're just carrying
>> around a big lump of dead weight code.)
>
> This is just excuses and points out poor project process.
> There could easily be a staging branch to deal with this.
Having your feature in-tree is a privilege, not a right. You earn it by
helping to maintain it. "it's not really maintained right now" means it
has not been earning its keep. You're encouraged to remedy that.
- [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken, Brad Smith, 2014/05/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken, Peter Maydell, 2014/05/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken, Brad Smith, 2014/05/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken, Peter Maydell, 2014/05/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken, Brad Smith, 2014/05/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken, Peter Maydell, 2014/05/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken,
Markus Armbruster <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken, Brad Smith, 2014/05/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken, Paolo Bonzini, 2014/05/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken, Peter Maydell, 2014/05/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken, Brad Smith, 2014/05/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken, Markus Armbruster, 2014/05/12