* Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/21/2010 04:54 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >* Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>On 03/21/2010 10:55 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >>>Of course you could say the following: > >>> > >>> ' Thanks, I'll mark this for v2.6.36 integration. Note that we are not > >>> able to add this to the v2.6.35 kernel queue anymore as the ongoing > >>> usability work already takes up all of the project's maintainer and > >>> testing bandwidth. If you want the feature to be merged sooner than that > >>> then please help us cut down on the TODO and BUGS list that can be found > >>> at XYZ. There's quite a few low hanging fruits there. ' > >>That would be shooting at my own foot as well as the contributor's since I > >>badly want that RCU stuff, and while a GUI would be nice, that itch isn't on > >>my back. > >I think this sums up the root cause of all the problems i see with KVM pretty > >well. > > A good maintainer has to strike a balance between asking more of people than > what they initially volunteer and getting people to implement the less fun > things that are nonetheless required. [...] Sorry to be blunt, but i dont think there's a different way to say it: i am a user of the software you are maintaining (Qemu) and i dont think you have the basis to educate people about what a good maintainer should do to achieve a quality end result. I think you could/should learn much from Linus and others who very much require quality to permeate the full dimension of a contribution (including usability), beyond the narrow, local scope of the contribution. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
