Dinah B <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi, > > I'm looking to get more involved in contributing to QEMU. I noticed that > there are some issues in the tracker > where a sample patch has been contributed but never got merged, like a > proposal to add multiboot2 support: > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/389 I couldn't see a patch attached to the bug report. Is it elsewhere? > > Is another dev allowed to "adopt" the patch as-is, with proper attribution to > the original dev and drive it to > completion/merging (there are some features missing)? Or is "starting from > scratch" required for legal > reasons? It's certainly possible to pick up a patch from someone else and take it forward. Aside from addressing any review comments I think the minimum requirement is the authors original Signed-off-by is intact which asserts they could contribute code to the project. -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
