Re: [virtio] [PATCH 04/17] charter: mention 1.x series in the background section

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

On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 11:30:20AM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 17:45:42 -0500
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  charter.html | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/charter.html b/charter.html
> > index cec72d9..a8b2356 100644
> > --- a/charter.html
> > +++ b/charter.html
> > @@ -37,6 +37,12 @@
> >        <p>
> >          With the 1.0 Specification, the goal of the OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Technical Committee was to keep the good, discard the bad, and make the ugly optional. In particular, the Committee tried not to break too much, and (with the exception of the mmio transport) the specification is designed to make it possible for devices to support both 1.0 compliant and legacy guest drivers.
> >        </p>
> > +      <p>
> > +        1.X Specifications
> > +      </p>
> > +      <p>
> > +        With the 1.1, 1.2 and future revisions of the Specification, we aim to evolve this standard further, while both continuing to honor the goals of the 1.0 Specification and to include new objectives.
> > +      </p>
> >      </li>
> >      <li>
> >        Scope
> 
> I'm wondering what our criteria would be to jump from 1.x to 2.x (I
> think 1.x looks fine for the foreseeable future; for 2.0, I'd expect
> some really major redesign that would make it impossible to continue to
> support legacy, or something like that.)

Or we will do like many projects have been doing recently and just
jump to 2.0 at a random time ;)

> Nevertheless,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>