Re: Cleaning up contrib/ and tools/

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 at 16:49, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 at 11:44, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps contrib/ is not a good home for example code.  It seems to
> > bother people whose judgement I respect.  Can we find a better home?
>
> I'm not sure to what extent we should be in the business of
> providing example code. If we are doing that we should label
> it all a bit better...

One thought that came to mind: for example code, perhaps we
should think of it in terms of it being part of our
documentation, so for instance:
 * shipping it (under /usr/share/qemu/code-examples/ ??
   as a subdir of the docs ???)
 * making sure the docs can hyperlink to the example code
 * making sure we have docs explaining the example code and
   what we intend to demonstrate by it (the plugins docs
   are very good here)

-- PMM