Re: [virtio-comment] Current status and timeline?

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 03:31:10PM +0000, Wenguang Wang (VSAN) wrote:
> Virtio TC,
> 
> May I know the timeline of the spec development?

We completed PR and expect to release cs04 in a couple of month.
It will probably be mostly identical to latest csprd as all
comments were minor.

>  When do we expect to get a
> final version of 1.0 spec?

I'm not sure I get the question.  It is already final:

[VIRTIO-v1.0] Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Version 1.0. Edited by Rusty
Russell, Michael S. Tsirkin, Cornelia Huck, and Pawel Moll. 02 August
2015. OASIS Committee Specification 03.
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/cs03/virtio-v1.0-cs03.html.
Latest version:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/virtio-v1.0.html.

And:
	"OASIS Standards Final Deliverable" means any of the following:
	Committee Specifications, Candidate OASIS Standards, OASIS Standards and
	Approved Errata.

Naturally, we keep releasing new versions with bugfixes and new features.
There's no plan to stop that AFAIK.

>  Between now and then what parts of the spec are
> likely to change, and will those changes be compatible with the current draft?
> 
> Thanks and best regards,
> -Wenguang Wang

I think that it's unlikely that we'll make incompatible changes in
future versions.

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MST