Adding a 'qemu.qmp' repository to gitlab.com/qemu-project/

Adding a 'qemu.qmp' repository to gitlab.com/qemu-project/

[John Snow]

Hi Peter:

I am working my way towards splitting the QMP library out of the
qemu.git source tree. I'd like to ask for permission to:

(1) Create a "qemu.qmp" repository under the qemu-project umbrella on GitLab
(2) Add Cleber Rosa and myself as maintainers of this repository. (In
discussion, Dan Berrange suggested a third maintainer for redundancy,
but nobody from outside of RH has yet volunteered. The offer stands,
but I have to press on in the meantime.)

The initial patches that set up the new repository are not yet
finalized and are still under review/development (on the qemu-devel
list, as normal), but I wanted to reach out and directly ask if you
have any objections to this plan so I can adjust the trajectory of my
work if necessary.

In short, the plan is to publish the QMP library as its own
mini-project published to the Python package repository, and take
patches via GitLab merge requests.

Thanks,
--js

Re: Adding a 'qemu.qmp' repository to gitlab.com/qemu-project/

[Alex Bennée]

John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:

> Hi Peter:
>
> I am working my way towards splitting the QMP library out of the
> qemu.git source tree. I'd like to ask for permission to:
>
> (1) Create a "qemu.qmp" repository under the qemu-project umbrella on
> GitLab

No objection for my part except maybe a better name? QemuPythonQmp? I
guess the header text can make it clear.

> (2) Add Cleber Rosa and myself as maintainers of this repository. (In
> discussion, Dan Berrange suggested a third maintainer for redundancy,
> but nobody from outside of RH has yet volunteered. The offer stands,
> but I have to press on in the meantime.)
>
> The initial patches that set up the new repository are not yet
> finalized and are still under review/development (on the qemu-devel
> list, as normal), but I wanted to reach out and directly ask if you
> have any objections to this plan so I can adjust the trajectory of my
> work if necessary.
>
> In short, the plan is to publish the QMP library as its own
> mini-project published to the Python package repository, and take
> patches via GitLab merge requests.
>
> Thanks,
> --js


-- 
Alex Bennée

Re: Adding a 'qemu.qmp' repository to gitlab.com/qemu-project/

[John Snow]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 11:56 AM Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>
> John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Peter:
> >
> > I am working my way towards splitting the QMP library out of the
> > qemu.git source tree. I'd like to ask for permission to:
> >
> > (1) Create a "qemu.qmp" repository under the qemu-project umbrella on
> > GitLab
>
> No objection for my part except maybe a better name? QemuPythonQmp? I
> guess the header text can make it clear.
>

At present, the package is named "qemu.qmp", which is the import name in Python.
("qemu" is the namespace, "qmp" is the package, "import qemu.qmp" is
how you import it.)

I figured I'd just name the repository the exact same thing, but I
realize that may introduce some ambiguity at the QEMU project gitlab
namespace level. "py-qemu.qmp" or similar would also probably be fine.
I think I want to avoid straying too far away from the import and
package names, if I can.

--js

Re: Adding a 'qemu.qmp' repository to gitlab.com/qemu-project/

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 04:54:25PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi Peter:
> >
> > I am working my way towards splitting the QMP library out of the
> > qemu.git source tree. I'd like to ask for permission to:
> >
> > (1) Create a "qemu.qmp" repository under the qemu-project umbrella on
> > GitLab
> 
> No objection for my part except maybe a better name? QemuPythonQmp? I
> guess the header text can make it clear.

I think it definitely ought to have the word 'python' in the
repo name, because there's talk of having bindings for other
languages and we want a reliable way to distinguish what repo
and project we're dealing with, if the remaining part of the
name is not very distinctive.  'python-qemu.qmp.git' seems
reasonable enough.

Regards,
Daniel
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Re: Adding a 'qemu.qmp' repository to gitlab.com/qemu-project/

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 19:47, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter:
>
> I am working my way towards splitting the QMP library out of the
> qemu.git source tree. I'd like to ask for permission to:
>
> (1) Create a "qemu.qmp" repository under the qemu-project umbrella on GitLab
> (2) Add Cleber Rosa and myself as maintainers of this repository. (In
> discussion, Dan Berrange suggested a third maintainer for redundancy,
> but nobody from outside of RH has yet volunteered. The offer stands,
> but I have to press on in the meantime.)

Since you asked me specifically, no objection, but agreed with
the other remarks in the thread about picking a more
obviously this-is-python-qmp-bindings indicating name.

-- PMM

Re: Adding a 'qemu.qmp' repository to gitlab.com/qemu-project/

[John Snow]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:54 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 19:47, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter:
> >
> > I am working my way towards splitting the QMP library out of the
> > qemu.git source tree. I'd like to ask for permission to:
> >
> > (1) Create a "qemu.qmp" repository under the qemu-project umbrella on GitLab
> > (2) Add Cleber Rosa and myself as maintainers of this repository. (In
> > discussion, Dan Berrange suggested a third maintainer for redundancy,
> > but nobody from outside of RH has yet volunteered. The offer stands,
> > but I have to press on in the meantime.)
>
> Since you asked me specifically, no objection, but agreed with
> the other remarks in the thread about picking a more
> obviously this-is-python-qmp-bindings indicating name.
>

OK, great! Thanks a million :)