migration maintenance, governance [Was: Re: [PATCH V4 0/2] migration file URI]

[Claudio Fontana]

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 <quintela@redhat.com> (maintainer:Migration)
>>> Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> (reviewer:Migration)
>>> Leonardo Bras <leobras@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.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Phil.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Philippe,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> CLaudio
>>
>>
> 
> 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?

Thank you,

Claudio