Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/5] Misc RISC-V patches

[Peter Maydell]

On 15 October 2018 at 21:28, Palmer Dabbelt <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 02:34:12 PDT (-0700), address@hidden wrote:
>> The expected patch flow for QEMU is:
>>  * original patch author posts patch to qemu-devel
>>    (this applies also if the author happens to be the
>>    submaintainer)
>>  * patch gets reviewed on this mailing list, by you or
>>    anybody else
>>  * patches relevant to risc-v get collected up by the
>>    submaintainer
>>  * submaintainer submits those patches via pull request
>>    (with a frequency usually about every two weeks, more
>>    often if volume of patches merits it)
>
>
> This makes sense.  It's almost exactly the Linux flow, which I'm used to and
> I have down to a fairly mechanical process.  I think the real issue here is
> that we don't have anyone who has officially committed to doing this, so I'm
> just going to pull the trigger and say I'm doing so.

Thanks for picking this up.

> My Linux PR flow is to tag a PR on Mondays, send it out to the list for
> comments, and then if it passes muster to submit an official PR on
> Wednesdays.  It's been working smoothly (we've yet to have to kill a PR), so
> I think I'll do the same thing for QEMU except I'll do Tuesday/Thursday.

For QEMU we do patches first, pull requests for reviewed stuff.
If you send a pull request out to the list the assumption is
that it's a request to apply it to master immediately.

thanks
-- PMM