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0 pointsemmelaich2y ago0 comments

WONTFIX sounds so final.

Though, reading the closing comment, this is really CLOSED-WONTFIXYET, as in no plans.

Maybe it'd be nice to introduce a WONTFIXYET. Might be useful to fossick among features abandoned that someday become feasible.

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adastra222y ago

Yeah WONTFIX implies will not accept patches in every project I've worked on.

broodbucket2y ago

Lucky they're not the ones accepting patches. If upstream adopts it they'd have to disable support in their build, which seems unlikely.

I wouldn't read WONTFIX like that for anything downstream (i.e. a distribution bug tracker for projects they package). It's we won't do it, not noone else can. WONTFIX only means WONTFIX if that's in the one true source of the project, i.e. upstream.

RH usually have a lot of not-upstream patches though (at least they do for the kernel, grub, and qemu, so I assume the same for libvirt) which complicates things a bit.

bonzini2y ago

> Lucky they're not the ones accepting patches. If upstream adopts it they'd have to disable support in their build, which seems unlikely.

Upstream libvirt would probably be Red Hat employees. :) It would not be disabled in the RHEL build, but note that Red Hat does disable a lot of features of QEMU in RHEL. About this:

> RH usually have a lot of not-upstream patches though (at least they do for the kernel, grub, and qemu, so I assume the same for libvirt) which complicates things a bit.

Most of the patches in kernel and QEMU are backports from upstream.

For QEMU there are 20-30 patches not-upstream patches and they're mostly configuration. For the kernel it's a bit more but not many, and Libvirt probably has even fewer.

Tyr422y ago

We usually use "Open, P4" (0 is highest. 2 is standard) for unscheduled work.

emmelaichOP2y ago

Some people strongly dislike "open" for anything not being worked on or having plans to work on. And I've come to agree to that. You just do not want it showing up in backlogs at all.

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