On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 07:53:31AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 30/07/2020 13.32, Andrew Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 07:50:39AM +0000, Nadav Amit wrote: > >>> On Jul 30, 2020, at 12:35 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 30/07/20 09:13, Wanpeng Li wrote: > >>>>>> I personally dislike renames as you will have old references lurking in > >>>>>> the internet for decades. A rename will result in people continue to using > >>>>>> the old code because the old name is the only thing that they know. > >>>>> > >>>>> +1 for keeping the old name. > >>>>> > >>>>> cpu-unit-tests might also not be completely fitting (I remember we > >>>>> already do test, or will test in the future I/O stuff like PCI, CCW, ...). > >>>>> > >>>>> IMHO, It's much more a collection of tests to verify > >>>>> architecture/standard/whatever compliance (including paravirtualized > >>>>> interfaces if available). > >>> > >>> Good point. > >>> > >>>> Vote for keeping the old name. > >>> > >>> Ok, so either old name or alternatively arch-unit-tests? But the > >>> majority seems to be for kvm-unit-tests, and if Nadav has no trouble > >>> contributing to them I suppose everyone else can too. > >> > >> Indeed. My employer (VMware) did not give me hard time (so far) in > >> contributing to the project just because it has KVM in its name. We (VMware) > >> also benefit from kvm-unit-tests, and Paolo and others were receptive to > >> changes that I made to make it more kvm/qemu -independent. This is what > >> matters. > >> > >> So I am ok with the name being kvm-unit-tests. But I would ask/recommend > >> that the project description [1] be updated to reflect the fact that the > >> project is hypervisor-agnostic. > > > > Good idea. Although while I authored what you see there, I don't really > > want to sign up to do all the writing. How about when we create the gitlab > > project we also create a .md file that we redirect [1] to? Then anybody > > can submit patches for it going forward. > > The README.md can now be viewed here: > > https://gitlab.com/kvm-unit-tests/kvm-unit-tests/-/blob/master/README.md > Yup, and now I'll try to find time to reformat and import the content at [1] to another .md file, which we'll keep in the git repo too. I'll then change the link at the top of the README to point to that and change [1] to point to it as well. Thanks, drew [1] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM-unit-tests
