On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 03:14:29PM +0200, Claudio Fontana wrote: > On 9/13/23 15:00, Claudio Fontana wrote: > > On 8/30/23 15:09, Claudio Fontana wrote: > >> On 8/22/23 15:25, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > >>> Hi Claudio, > >>> > >>> On 22/8/23 14:00, Claudio Fontana wrote: > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> this series is all reviewed, > >>>> > >>>> and is needed as a precondition for further work to improve dramatically > >>>> the performance of virsh save, virsh restore > >>>> when migrating to disk, can it be merged? > >>> > >>> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f migration/meson.build > >>> Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com> (maintainer:Migration) > >>> Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com> (reviewer:Migration) > >>> Leonardo Bras <leob...@redhat.com> (reviewer:Migration) > >>> qemu-devel@nongnu.org (open list:All patches CC here) > >>> > >>> One maintainer, one single point of failure. When the > >>> maintainer is busy or offline (vacations?) then everybody > >>> is stuck. > >>> > >>> This is usually solved by adding co-maintainers. > >>> > >>> Juan, would you accept having co-maintainers helping you > >>> dealing with the merge process? I'm not volunteering, but > >>> this can be a good opportunity to make a formal request to > >>> the community. > >> > >> I would like to highlight to the QEMU community here how important this is > >> for SUSE, > >> > >> to see progress for all the series in the migration area that are > >> currently still waiting and competing for attention. > >> > >> The specific features and improvements we are developing or helping to > >> review are a priority for us, > >> and we are concerned about the rate of progress with the existing > >> governance processes. > >> > >> Fabiano is investing a lot of his attention to this area, with features, > >> bugfixes and reviews, > >> but of course it is up to the community as a whole to address the issue so > >> that reviewed work is merged. > >> > >> My attempt here is to make sure that it is recognized as a problem, so it > >> can be hopefully be addressed by the community in a timely fashion, > >> and we can all benefit from the already developed and reviewed work that > >> is pending. > >> > > > > Hi Juan, any comments? Would additional help for co-maintenance of live > > migration help? > > How can we make things proceed? > > > > From our (SUSE) side we are willing to help as much as we can, and all > > options are open, > > whatever it takes to get the multiple series currently waiting to flow > > again. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Claudio > > Hi any news here? > > We continue to see the migration area of QEMU as basically blocked; > > there are a number of reviewed series out and little progress in merging them, > as well as a number of improvements not posted to the list at all due to the > situation being completely bottlenecked. > > Would a co-maintenance of migration/ from Fabiano be an option? > > Should we organize a call to discuss this if the mailing list does not > suffice to discuss this topic?
FWIW, in response to your previous mail, I had suggested to Peter Xu in private that he would make a good candidate of co-maintainer for migration, given he is already a nominated reviewer and has been actively reviewing migration patches for a long while. Migration did have 2 maintainers until earlier in this year when David Gilbert moved on to other things, and I think we can all see that this has had an unfortunate impact on productivity in the migration subsystem that needs to be solved. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
