[Spice-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 00/20] Monitor ID rework

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > Is there a high-level overview of the changes planned?  For starters I'm
> > mostly interested in spice-protocol and qxl guest interface changes.  We
> > need to get the concepts right before implementing the stuff.  And I
> > think its easier if we bundle the changes into one protocol update
> > instead of doing many small protocol changes.
> 
> My experience with a "all or nothing" approach is that is never ending,
> I think we want to release RHEL8 before 2021.

But without a good plan (and ideally a proof-of-concept implementation
too, proving the protocol/interface design can actually handle the stuff
we want it handle) we risk inconsistencies, multiple protocol changes
and the backward compatibility becoming even more messy than it already
is ...

cheers,
  Gerd