Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering

[Peter Maydell]

On 4 May 2018 at 09:16, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 07:29:20AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> writes:
>> > So to clarify, three separate steps:
>> >
>> > 1. Get rid of target-specific #ifdefs
>>
>> 1. can be incremental.  Something for
>> <https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/BiteSizedTasks>?
>
> Some conversions are trivial, others are not.  I think asking newcomers
> to figure out how to untangle the #ifdefs without a plan would not
> produce good results.

Yes; we have a bad track record of putting "general unfinished
conversions" into the bite-sized-tasks list and then finding
that new contributors try to tackle things that are more
subtle than the brief description makes them seem (especially
since often the unfinished parts of a conversion are the hard
parts!)

thanks
-- PMM