Re: [PATCH 2/2] Gitlab: Add "Feature Request" issue template.

[Thomas Huth]

On 19/05/2021 23.32, John Snow wrote:
> Copied from Peter Krempa's libvirt template, feature.md.
>
> CC: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> ---
>   .gitlab/issue_templates/feature_request.md | 13 +++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 .gitlab/issue_templates/feature_request.md
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> diff --git a/.gitlab/issue_templates/feature_request.md 
> b/.gitlab/issue_templates/feature_request.md
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000000..26901ff00c4
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> +++ b/.gitlab/issue_templates/feature_request.md
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> +## Goal
> +<!-- Describe the final result you want to achieve. Avoid design specifics. -->

Since some people apparently had wrong expectations when filing a feature 
request in the past, it might be good to add some words about what to 
expect. Maybe something like this (re-using some wording that Daniel already 
added to some tickets in the past IIRC):

 Please note that the QEMU, like most open source projects, relies on 
contributors who have motivation, skills and available time to work on 
implementing particular features. Contributors naturally tend to focus on 
features that result in the greatest benefit to their own use cases. Thus 
the QEMU project doesn't implement new big features (like target 
architectures or board models) on demand based on feature requests here; 
they're a lot of work to do. Instead we simply code-review and incorporate 
new big features as and when people decide to write them and submit the 
patches. So please only submit small requests here. Thanks!

?

 Thomas