Re: planning virtio 1.1: should latest version be updated?

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

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:46:09AM -0400, Chet Ensign wrote:
> Hi Michael, 
> 
> No, the way we have set up our naming structure doesn't allow for that. We set
> up the Latest version links to take readers to the current version of the
> specific work product. Virtio v1.1 will be a new work product as will v2.0,
> etc. 
> 
> We added a sentence in the Status section of the cover pages pointing readers
> to the Technical Work section of the TC's web page for any subsequent work
> products.

We don't have that ATM. Is there an example showing how that
can look?

> I realize that's not perfect but we don't put pointers in that jump
> across the trees. 
> 
> /chet
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>     Chet, all,
> 
>     We started getting patches destined for virtio 1.1.
> 
>     I noticed that virtio spec versions include the following links:
> 
>             Latest version:
>             http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/virtio-v1.0.pdf
>             http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/virtio-v1.0.html
> 
>     However, eventually (after we release virtio 1.1), we will probably
>     want to stop maintaining virtio 1.0 branch.
> 
>     Would it be possible to place the latest version here instead:
>             http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1/virtio-v1.pdf
>             http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1/virtio-v1.html
> 
>     and additionally have the v1.0 versions redirect there
>     (for people that click links in the old released spec versions)?
> 
>     Thanks!
>    
>     --
>     MST
> 
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> /chet 
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