[libvirt] [PATCH 06/11] util: use glib base64 encoding/decoding APIs

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Mon, 2019-09-30 at 16:34 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 05:24:00PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 16:10:11 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> > > It don't be in a half-done state forever. We can let things be converted
> > > incrementally over the next 3-6 months. At the end of say 6 months if
> > > anything is left we bulk convert it them. That gets the benefits opf
> > > incremental work without downside of stuff remaining unconverted forever.
> > 
> > How is this not a big-bang conversion?
> 
> Most of the conversion patches will be small & targetted. Obviously it
> assumes that 95% of the stuff gets converted this way during the first
> period. So the final conversion  at the end is quite small.

But there's no GSoC planned for the next six months!

On a more serious note, I don't think this expectation is realistic,
and at the end of it all the we'll just end up doing pretty much the
same big-bang conversion, only with a few months of neither here nor
there in between.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization