Re: [Qemu-devel] Reminder: we're now in softfreeze

[Peter Crosthwaite]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 26 October 2015 at 06:25, Peter Crosthwaite
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> For this release I'd like to try tracking known-issues on
>>> the wiki page: http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.5
>>> with a list of patch series or bugs which need to be fixed
>>> into the release. This will hopefully avoid the problem we
>>> had last time around where I missed patches that should have
>>> gone into an rc.
>>
>> Can patches fix this with the right form of query? Maybe another piece
>> of metadata for patches that are promoted for rc merge.
>
> ...only if the submitter remembers to tag it when they send
> it,

If it is done as an annotation (e.g. like an RB) then it can be done
by reviewers after the fact.

 and it doesn't help for issues that don't have a patch yet,
> or for tracking whether a submaintainer has taken the patch.
>

Don't those issue exist regardless of freeze state? We should come up
with a more universal state tracking solution. FWIW, In my own local
system I use Applied-by: tags so I know something is sitting in
someones queue waiting for a flush.

Regards,
Peter

> Tagging your patch as "[PATCH for-2.5]" is a good idea anyway
> once we're in freeze, though.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM