On 15 October 2018 at 21:28, Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 02:34:12 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote: >> The expected patch flow for QEMU is: >> * original patch author posts patch to qemu-devel >> (this applies also if the author happens to be the >> submaintainer) >> * patch gets reviewed on this mailing list, by you or >> anybody else >> * patches relevant to risc-v get collected up by the >> submaintainer >> * submaintainer submits those patches via pull request >> (with a frequency usually about every two weeks, more >> often if volume of patches merits it) > > > This makes sense. It's almost exactly the Linux flow, which I'm used to and > I have down to a fairly mechanical process. I think the real issue here is > that we don't have anyone who has officially committed to doing this, so I'm > just going to pull the trigger and say I'm doing so.
Thanks for picking this up. > My Linux PR flow is to tag a PR on Mondays, send it out to the list for > comments, and then if it passes muster to submit an official PR on > Wednesdays. It's been working smoothly (we've yet to have to kill a PR), so > I think I'll do the same thing for QEMU except I'll do Tuesday/Thursday. For QEMU we do patches first, pull requests for reviewed stuff. If you send a pull request out to the list the assumption is that it's a request to apply it to master immediately. thanks -- PMM
