RE: Announcement of aborting HAXM maintenance

[Wang, Wenchao]

Hi, Daniel,

Thanks for your reply. Could you please help to merge below attached patch to 
update the status of HAXM in QEMU? Thanks a lot.


Best Regards,
Wenchao

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From d88ba9ab3e32c991566443f3b52c45de67bf10c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wenchao Wang <wenchao.wang@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:08:37 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Abort HAXM maintenance

Abort the maintenance of Guest CPU Cores (HAXM).

* Clean up the maintainer list of X86 HAXM CPUs
* Remove the web page URL and the mailing list
* Change the status to Orphan

Reviewed-by: Hang Yuan <hang.yuan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wenchao Wang <wenchao.wang@intel.com>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 0fe50d01e3..0950061dc4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -500,10 +500,7 @@ F: stubs/xen-hw-stub.c
 Guest CPU Cores (HAXM)
 ---------------------
 X86 HAXM CPUs
-M: Wenchao Wang <wenchao.wang@intel.com>
-L: haxm-team@intel.com
-W: https://github.com/intel/haxm/issues
-S: Maintained
+S: Orphan
 F: accel/stubs/hax-stub.c
 F: include/sysemu/hax.h
 F: target/i386/hax/
-- 
2.17.1


-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> 
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2023 18:12
To: Wang, Wenchao <wenchao.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>; Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>; 
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>; qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: Announcement of aborting HAXM maintenance

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 03:56:04AM +0000, Wang, Wenchao wrote:
> Hi, Philippe,
> 
> Intel decided to abort the development of HAXM and the maintenance of 
> its QEMU part. Should we submit a patch to mark the Guest CPU Cores 
> (HAXM) status as Orphan and remove the maintainers from the 
> corresponding list? Meanwhile, should the code enabling HAX in QEMU 
> once committed by the community be retained?

If you no longer intend to work on QEMU bits related to HAXM, then yes, you 
should send a patch for the MAINTAINERS file to remove you name and mark it as 
"Orphan" status.

We would not normally delete code from QEMU, merely because it has been 
orphaned. If it is still known to work then we would retain it indefinitely, 
unless some compelling reason arises to drop it.
This gives time for any potential users to adjust their plans, and/or 
opportunity for other interested people to take over the maintenance role.

With regards,
Daniel
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