Re: [virtio] how should people comment on spec (was Re: [virtio-comment] VIRTIO Spec feedback)

[Rusty Russell <rusty@au1.ibm.com>]

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> By the way, guys - how are people supposed to comment on spec?
>
> Several people failed to figure it out and just
> sent me bits of text copy-pasted from pdf,
> really hard to read.
>
> Transcribe "on page X line Y ..."?
> Could be possible if we at least numbered lines.
>
> Chet - is this allowed in specs?
>
> It's still pretty painful.
> Use some tool to add notes to PDF?
> I don't know of one, and then it's still hard to find
> and read the notes.
>
> I think for next draft revision we should
> make more public our svn tree location and location
> of source in zip file, and tell people how to comment
> on tex and how to subscribe to the mailing list
> if they want to.
>
> Chet - any objections?

Agreed.  While we've nominated the PDF as canonical, there's no reason
they can't comment against the other variants.

For WD02 I'd like to add line numbers if we can, and definitely point
people to the tex source for in-depth commenting (even patches!).

Thanks,
Rusty.