Re: [PULL v2 00/73] tcg plugins and testing updates

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 21:24, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> Alex Bennée <address@hidden> writes:
> > I'd rather not unless we can make an exception for late merging of the
> > PR. I've worked quite hard to make sure everything is ready for the 4.2
> > window and I'd rather not miss a whole release cycle on a
> > misunderstanding of what these plugins allow.
>
> I think there are multiple ways to avoid the nuclear outcome.
>
> Coming to a conclusion before the soft freeze is the nicest one.
>
> Making an exception for late merging is another one, but Peter may
> prefer not to.
>
> Yet another one is merging the pull request before the soft freeze with
> the understanding that it'll be reverted unless we come to a positive
> conclusion before say -rc0 (Nov 5).  I'm confident we can work it out in
> Lyon.

I'm happy with any of these (and we have a longstanding rule
that as long as a version of the pullreq was on list before soft
freeze it's ok to apply before hardfreeze, even if it needed to
go through a few versions or was otherwise a bit delayed).

In practice, since I'm on holiday Mon/Tues and this hotel wifi is
awful it's quite likely that I wouldn't get round to actually processing
a pullreq with the TCG plugins in it before we all get a chance
to talk face-to-face on Wednesday anyhow :-)

Alex: I suggest you send out a pullreq with the plugins stuff
(I've just applied your testing pullreq), and then we can
make sure it gets over the "passes merge build/tests" hurdle.

thanks
-- PMM