[Qemu-devel] Qemu development schedule?

["Jeebs" <Jeebs@yango.us>]

[I am *not* a developer, but since the user's list doesn't work, I lurk 
here.]

What is the development schedule for Qemu?

In other words, what priority is there for various things?

Fabrice's recent comment about vastly speeding up Qemu got me thinking that 
perhaps it might be better to work on other things first.

Don't misunderstand me... The recent discussion about performance 
improvements, and Fabrice's comments were *very* exciting.

But I was just thinking that before you do the exciting and the 'sexy' 
things, that perhaps you should work on the more mundane things needed to 
make Qemu into a highly usable product.

Like vastly improving the user interface.  Especially for Window's users 
(such as myself.)

Improving the basic virtual system to add things like full Pentium-3 
support.  MMX, SSE, cpuid, etc. etc.

Making sure the FPU behaves like it's supposed to.

Improving data transfers to/from the guest / host.

And a bunch of other 'minor' details.


As I said above, I'm not a developer.  So maybe I'm out of place even making 
these questions and comments.  If so, I apologize.  I do indeed think Qemu 
is an excellent project.  It's very exciting and that's why I'm here 
lurking.

I'm just a little concerned that maybe qemu might always be an incomplete, 
un-stable, un-usable beta program.  An interesting program without the 
refinements and the polishing.

If all you ever do is work on the exciting stuff, and fix the occasional 
problem, then the project may have trouble reaching the level of quality it 
should.

That's why I was wondering what the project schedule actually was.  At what 
points are things going to be added or fixed or improved.

Or is Qemu still in the "free for all" early development stage where people 
work on whatever exciting or sexy thing they feel like, with no actual plan 
or organization?