On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 03:57:42PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 at 06:41, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Could we use a contrib/README with an explanation what "contrib" means, > > and how to build and use the stuff there? > > I would rather we got rid of contrib/ entirely. Our git repo > should contain things we care about enough to really support > and believe in, in which case they should be in top level > directories matching what they are (eg tools/). If we don't > believe in these things enough to really support them, then > we should drop them, and let those who do care maintain them > as out-of-tree tools if they like. >
I can't speak for a lot of stuff in contrib/ but I find the vhost-user backends like vhost-user-blk and vhost-user-scsi helpful for testing and development. I would like to keep maintaining those two at least. > subprojects/ is similarly vague. > Again, I can't say much for other stuff in subprojects/ but libvhost-user is clearly important. Maybe we move libvhost-user to another directroy and the libvhost-user based backends there too? > thanks > -- PMM
