On 10/13/2026 2:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2026 at 04:24:07PM -0700, Pierrick Bouvier wrote:
>> On 10/7/2026 3:54 PM, Yonggang Luo wrote:
>>> My work is here.
>>> https://gitlab.com/lygstate-qemu/qemu/-/tree/combined-binary-multi-targets?ref_type=heads
>>> I am afraid of posting 300 pathces into threads to flood it(and
>>> disturbing yours). So I'll wait for your work first. and resolving
>>> conflicts later, that's really time-consuming.
>>>
>>
>> It's indeed not possible to send 300 patches and expect this to work,
>> whether it's on this mailing list, or any software forge also.
>> It's also not possible to send a link, and expect anyone to take a look
>> at the 373 commits sitting it on top of master. My name is not Claude.
>> Instead, humans have to progress step by step, based on feedback. Yes it
>> takes time and it can be frustrating. And yes, I've been there (and
>> frustrated) also, I feel sorry for you.
>>
>> At the moment, if we want to make it move on, we need to focus on one
>> single thing:
>> "How to document/specify which targets a machine support".
>>
>>> I did many explanations before. seems my explanation is too bad and
>>> not to give a clean picture for you, let's delay these first.
>>>
>>
>> If I can suggest something politely here, IMHO, alternating between
>> genuinely human written messages, and AI content sent as it is on email
>> or commit messages is not helping on the receiver side.
>>
>> I would prefer anytime to deal with imperfect english (mine is imperfect
>> too, I'm not a native speaker neither), compared to read what
>> Claude/GPT/Deepseek generated that was pasted as it is.
>> I understand it's a good tool for helping on the language side, and
>> that's ok to fix grammar and sentence structure.
>> But asking "Please generate a summary from those email threads and
>> explain what the current series is doing", and paste this is doomed to fail.
>>
>> It also has a very detrimental side effect: it makes me start to wonder
>> where the code is coming from also. Especially when seeing boilerplates
>> with lengthy comments written in perfect english. My 2 cents is, use AI
>> if you want/need, but make sure the result has this *human* touch.
> 
> Although these are not yet final/commited, please bear in mind the
> proposed updated AI guidelines which broadly intend to forbid use
> of AI for authoring commit messages & cover letters:
> 
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2026-09/msg00260.html
>

While the AI discussion is on going, maybe it would be nice to forbid
that on the mailing list also.

> 
> With regards,
> Daniel


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