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 This does mean that you should only create a Pull Request if you're willing to work on incrementally improving it before it gets merged! "Hit-and-run" PRs will very likely be closed.
 
+If you're planning on submitting a large or architecturally-significant PR, please open an issue first to ask whether there's interest in the change - otherwise, you might end up doing a lot of work for nothing.
+
 ## Code of Conduct
 
 Quite simple, really:
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+Research questions:
+- GraphQL schema composability
+- GraphQL DB integration
+- Ergonomic reusable filters for GraphQL nodes, potentially using custom directives
+- How to define non-global custom types in GraphQL
+- How to combine literal text-based schema definitions with programmatic schema construction, and whether this is necessary
+- How to represent progress for long-running tasks in a GraphQL mutation, eg. for an "add ISO from HTTP URL" operation
+
+Todo list:
+- GraphQL API: Separate stuff out into multiple modules
+- UI: GraphQL templating implementation via React+JSX
+- UI: Convert hardware -> disks page to GraphQL template
+- GraphQL API: Memory resources (usage, available, etc.)
+- Wrappers: Add error handling to smartctl wrapper
+- Wrappers: Complete LVM wrapper
+- Internals: Storage pool implementations
+- GraphQL API: Storage pool support
+- Internals: ISO/template pool implementation
+- GraphQL API: ISO/template pool support
+
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+
 qemu-img create -f qcow2 test.qcow 5G
 qemu-kvm -cdrom ~/Downloads/debian-8.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso -hda test.qcow -boot d -netdev user,id=user.0 -device e1000,netdev=user.0 -m 196 -localtime