Re: STAO spec in xen.git

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017, Al Stone wrote:
> On 01/13/2017 12:52 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Jan 2017, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >> Stefano Stabellini writes ("STAO spec in xen.git"):
> >>> I suggest we commit the STAO spec in the form of the attached ODT
> >>> document to xen.git under docs/misc, for easier editing and consumption
> >>> by the Xen community, and to be able to generate a stable URL for it. In
> >>> fact at the moment the link to the STAO spec from http://uefi.org/acpi
> >>> is broken. Once we have a stable URL, we'll fix the link.
> >>>
> >>> Let me know if you are OK with this.
> >>
> >> I think this is a fine place to keep them.
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> >> (for both this and the XENV one)
> >>
> >> What stable URL do you propose to use ?
> > 
> > I don't have a preference, as long as it is truly stable :-)
> > 
> > This is a question for people more familiar with ASWG than me. Is it OK
> > to publish it in ODT? I have just noticed that this would be the first
> > spec in that format among the ones linked from http://uefi.org/acpi.
> > 
> 
> I would recommend exporting it as PDF and submitting those to UEFI.  For
> good or bad, the convention has been to use Word format within the ASWG,
> and PDF to publish public documents (though there are exceptions...).

In that case, I think we should still commit it as ODT, but convert it
automatically to PDF when we publish it (we do something similar with
the markdown docs, converting them from markdown to html).


> Let me know off line if you need assistance making sure the uefi.org links
> get updated properly.

We'll most certainly need your help, thanks.

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