>>> On 30.11.18 at 19:01, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:09:42PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH v2 0/3] Remove tmem"): >> > It is agreed that tmem can be removed from xen.git. See the thread >> > starting > > >> > from <[email protected]>. >> >> Those are notes from some phone call amongst industry stakeholders. >> None of the messages have a Subject line mentioning tmem. There is no >> explanation of the basis for the decision; just a confirmation from >> the current maintainers that they will ack the removal. >> >> I think this is not really an appropriate way to carry on! What if >> there is someone else who wants to step up to maintain this ? What >> about user communication ? Going straight from `Supported' to >> `Deleted' seems rather vigorous. > > Step up to maintain> I would rather say step up to develop. > > The status in MAINTAINERS is wrong. According to SUPPORT.md, it is only > experimental. Our definition of "experimental" is: > > Functional completeness: No > Functional stability: Here be dragons > Interface stability: Not stable > Security supported: No
Exactly. Plus my proposal to remove it was posted to xen-devel on Aug 30th. I don't think removal of an experimental feature requires posting to xen-announce. Ian - please reconsider your nack. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
