Re: [Qemu-devel] Modular qemu?

[Glauber Costa]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Laurent Desnogues
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
>> With respect to the various forks of QEMU, I believe the real problem is
>> that historically, people have had a tough time getting changes into QEMU.
>>  This is not just a matter of getting patches accepted, but also getting the
>> appropriate guidance about how to refactor things to take into account all
>> of the various architecture combinations that QEMU supports and some of the
>> longer term efforts.
>>
>> I hope this situation is improving.  If people have feedback in how things
>> could be improved, I think everyone is eager to here it.  Plugins are not
>> the solution though.
>
> Sorry to say, but many forks are linux-user ones and qemu has no
> maintainer for that.  This might become even worse in the future
> with, for instance, Nokia using qemu linux-user for the SDK of their
> upcoming OMAP3 based tablet.

We have no maintainer here, and there's a lot of people maintaining the forks
all over. What's stoping those people from becoming maintainers of the
linux-user architectures
in upstream qemu?

I believe this is part of what anthony is saying. The situation about
how do we welcome
new people improved by a large leap.