Re: [RFC + PATCHES] Work to get KVM autotest upstream

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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Ryan Harper <ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'd definitely like to see patches to the list before committing; we do
>>> the same for kvm, qemu etc, not sure why kvm-autotest should be any
>>> different.  On the other hand, it's not currently being done that way
>>> and I'm not losing any sleep over it; it's easy enough to git log and
>>> and email the list if you break something or think something should be
>>> done differently.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If you have, or can have, a publicly visible git tree with your changes,
>> you
>> can generate pull requests from time to time. Then the job of the
>> maintainer
>> will be only to sanitize your tree, make sure it is in overall good shape,
>> and
>> merge it to the main stream.
>>
>
> The advantage to posting non-trivial patches (beyond review) is that it
> helps people learn about how things are being developed and makes it easier
> to for others to get involved.  It forces a lot of the design discussions to
> happen on the mailing list.
>

+5
Note that I'm not against it in any means. I'm all for post for mailing lists.
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