Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

[Paolo Bonzini]

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