On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 06:01:23PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > Informally we have approximately three groups of platforms > > * Tier 1: fully built and fully tested by CI. Must always be > kept working & regressions fixed immediately > > * Tier 2: fully built and partially tested by CI. Should > always be kept working & regressions fixed quickly > > * Tier 3: code exists but is not built or tested by CI. > Should not be intentionally broken but not > guaranteed to work at any time. Downstream must > manually test, report & fix bugs. > > Anything else is "unclassified" and any historical code > remnants may be removed. > > It is somewhat tricky to define unambiguous rules for each tier, > but this doc takes a stab at it. We don't need to cover every > eventuality. If we get the core points of view across, then it > at least sets the direction for maintainers/contributors/users. > Other aspects can be inferred with greater accuracy than today. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> > --- > > This came out of the discussion about recent unnoticed breakage > in NetBSD builds and what maintainers are expected todo about > it (if anything) > > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2026-01/msg02543.html > > docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 152 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
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