On 22/07/2019 20:20, Andrew Cooper wrote: > a.k.a. (at least in this form) Andrew's "work which might be offloadable to > someone else" list. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> > --- > CC: George Dunlap <george.dun...@eu.citrix.com> > CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@citrix.com> > CC: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org> > CC: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org> > CC: Wei Liu <w...@xen.org> > CC: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com> > CC: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> > CC: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com> > CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com> > > RFC for obvious reasons. > > A rendered version of this can be found at: > https://andrewcoop-xen.readthedocs.io/en/docs-wishlist/misc/wishlist.html > > During XenSummit in Chicago, it was expressed several times that having some > todo lists would be a benefit, to help coordinate work in related areas. > > Here is an attempt to start one. For now, it covers one single > item (xenstored's use of non-stable APIs) to get some feedback about the > general approach. I have plenty to get stuck into in Xen itself if this way > of expressing them isn't deemed unacceptable. > > As for the wishlist itself, I think it is important that it be restricted to > concrete actions (i.e. already partially groomed, if you speak agile), which > are identified problems, and suggested fixes. > > In particular, I don't think it is appropriate to devolve into a bullet point > list of new features, or tasks like "document $whotsit". It should be > restricted to things which are real problems, on existing systems, which have > some forward plan of action. That way, any developer should be able to > cross-reference at least at a high level, and see if there are areas of > overlapping work, or whether a slightly tweaked approach might be suitable for > multiple areas. > > Anyway - thoughts from the peanut gallery? > --- > docs/conf.py | 10 +++++++++- > docs/index.rst | 9 +++++++++ > docs/misc/wishlist.rst | 53 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
It has been pointed out that calling this the wishlist is a poor name. A better name would be the technical debt list. I won't resend for just this, but please bear it in mind when considering the suggestion. ~Andrew _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
