Hi folks,
I'd like to start maintaining qemu-specific branches in our ipxe.git
repo. The reason for this are some problems with the upstream ipxe
maintainance:
* The ipxe maintainer apparently is pretty busy. Often (but not
always) it takes weeks or even months to get patches merged upstream,
which is bad in case we need a fix included quickly due to freeze
deadline approaching ...
* There is no release management whatsoever. No stable branches,
no release tags. Picking up a fix upstream means rebasing to
a snapshot which includes the fix.
So I'd like to improve that downstream with qemu branches, where we can
commit not-yet merged patches, revert broken patches and cherry-pick
bugfixes.
This is *NOT* meant to be a replacement for working with upstream to get
patches merged and bugs fixed. But it will allow us to handle things in
a timely manner without having to depend on the upstream maintainer.
And we can be more selective about the ipxe patches we accept during
freeze.
I plan to also add qemu release tags to the repo, so you can easily
figure what is included in each qemu release.
Laszlo created a wiki page for this, naming conventions for branches and
tags are listed there too:
http://wiki.qemu-project.org/IpxeDownstreamForQemu
Comments?
cheers,
Gerd
PS: v2, this time with the correct qemu-devel address ...
