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

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 5/20/21 2:52 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> 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
>>
>> diff --git a/.gitlab/issue_templates/feature_request.md 
>> b/.gitlab/issue_templates/feature_request.md
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 00000000000..26901ff00c4
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/.gitlab/issue_templates/feature_request.md
>> @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
>> +## 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!
> 
> ?
> 

OK, I may edit it just a little bit to appear a touch softer. A concern 
I have is that users may not really know the difference between a 
'small' and a 'big' feature, necessarily.

Still, setting an expectation might help...

--js