Re: [PATCH v12 00/19] Initial support for multi-process Qemu

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 11:14, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:40:11PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > I would prefer to see this going through the tree of an
> > established QEMU developer who's already sending pullrequests,
> > at least initially.
>
> Once the discussion has completed I can send the patches in a pull
> request.
>
> I don't want to be the bottleneck for all multi-process QEMU patches in
> the future though. That's why I think the authors should be able to send
> pull requests on their own after the initial code is merged. Much of
> this work is isolated an only affects multi-process QEMU and the feature
> is marked experimental. There is little risk of introducing instability
> for non-multi-process QEMU users/developers. Hence why this is a new
> subsystem and has MAINTAINERS files entries.

My reasoning is basically that new pull-request senders are more
work for me, because I have to make sure they have a GPG key set
up, and then examine pull requests pretty carefully to check they're
well-formed, all the sign-offs are correct, the changes aren't
touching areas of the codebase that they shouldn't, and so on.
That's particularly painful if the first pull request that comes
through is a massive one rather than "here's a small number of
patches with some bug fixes".

thanks
-- PMM