From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhbDk-0003ri-NZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 06:36:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhbDg-0003rw-Nh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 06:36:16 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-x22e.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22e]:34779) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhbDg-0003rb-HP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 06:36:12 -0400 Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so26270662wic.1 for ; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 03:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini References: <87E5D202-0E71-426D-807A-A0737EF07158@gmail.com> <20150928023046.4417.51660@loki> <371B9FFB-14FD-4707-9094-29EC9F6B508F@gmail.com> <87vbavm27u.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <20150929131109.GI3810@work-vm> <20150929133124.GK3810@work-vm> <8737xw9wl2.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <20150930081441.GB2627@work-vm> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <560D0C9A.1020300@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:36:10 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Programmingkid , Peter Maydell Cc: Markus Armbruster , Peter Crosthwaite , Michael Roth , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , qemu-devel qemu-devel On 30/09/2015 16:23, Programmingkid wrote: >> We clearly don't have the >> active maintainer and review capacity to do anything serious with >> "ui/" (MAINTAINERS lists everything except SPICE as Odd Fixes). > > This could be changed. Sure it could. Who's going to do the work? >> This is why I tend to agree with Markus' opinion here: we should >> provide enough graphical UI to make raw QEMU minimally usable, >> and leave further user-friendliness to other projects which have >> more direct interest in that. >> >> If we had more regular contributors who were actively interested >> in improving our UI layer my opinion might be different. > > It is really hard for more contributors to come when the maintainers > keep discouraging them. Submitting patches is never discouraged. Endless email threads are. Paolo