Re: [PATCH v4 00/43] qapi: convert (very) trivial intro sections

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 2, 2026 at 6:58 AM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 7:05 AM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Series
>> >> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>> >>
>> >
>> > Thank you for your suffering :)
>>
>> You're welcome; it's my job[*]!
>>
>> > So, I think there's actually no real problem in checking in a partial
>> > conversion as the infrastructure was coded specifically to allow it,
>> > however you're the maintainer so I will follow your lead. I'm more
>> > interested in moving forward than telling you how to do your job ;)
>> >
>> > The series will eventually enforce strict ordering, so there is no
>> > chance we will miss anything. If we send a PR now, we also don't have
>> > to keep rebasing the partial series against master. If you don't want
>> > to submit a PR, please create a branch I can track and submit patches
>> > against, and please periodically rebase it against origin/master.
>>
>> I worry a bit that having intros split about half between two styles
>> would cause confusion and friction.  I'd much prefer to get to >90%
>> fairly quickly.  If we think that's possible, I'm happy to queue up
>> things in my tree, and take care of the rebasing.
>
> Everything up until the "convert multi-paragraph intros" patch (#44 in
> my pending work) is approximately 87% of the total volume of
> conversions. In the most recent off-list mail I sent you, that's
> Sections 1-7 -- which is essentially all of the stuff that was
> factored out as "semi-trivial"/"simple", plus the "TODO" conversions.
> I believe these are pretty trivial to burn through, but would require
> a bit of dedicated time. We could probably do it in a week if we
> really pushed ...

Let's try!

> Existing volume of what you have reviewed and accepted is 55%.
>
> Well, either way, I just don't want to have to juggle so many patches
> in the interim, so I am pushing a bit to just merge it to make
> subsequent series easier to rebase and juggle so that e.g. I don't
> have to have increasingly long "based-on" tags.
>
> (Makes sad, pouting noises.)

I'm queuing up this series.

If the Based-on become too unwieldy for anyone involved, let me know.

>> [*] Some days my compensation is compensation for suffering ;)