Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU patch management

From: "Reimar Döffinger" <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de>
To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU patch management
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:24:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090910172458.GB16143@1und1.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090910101148.1af158bc@doriath>

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:11:48AM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:51:09 +0200
> Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de> wrote:
> > For me that is simply too much effort (I am after all a FFmpeg/MPlayer developer
> > in the first place) and I'll probably just drop all the non-trivial
> > changes I made because they have a too high merging effort.
> 
>  Not sure if this is what you meant but, having different trees for
> different subsystems is one of the best ways to get large scale
> development and that's how git was designed to work.

My point was: If you tell people to just use their own repository to
"maintain" some part without actually having some appropriate "power" to
get things accepted and directing patches to that part "through" them,
then I think that instead of managing things by subsystems (good) you
end up with a "wilderness" of forks (very, very bad IMO).