Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v3 2/2] docs/interop/bitmaps: rewrite and modernize doc

[John Snow]

On 4/29/19 9:44 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 06:15:28PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
>> This just about rewrites the entirety of the bitmaps.rst document to
>> make it consistent with the 4.0 release. I have added new features seen
>> in the 4.0 release, as well as tried to clarify some points that keep
>> coming up when discussing this feature both in-house and upstream.
>>
>> Yes, it's a lot longer, mostly due to examples. I get a bit chatty.
>> I could use a good editor to help reign in my chattiness.
>>
>> It does not yet cover pull backups or migration details, but I intend to
>> keep extending this document to cover those cases.
>>
>> Please try compiling it with sphinx and look at the rendered output, I
>> don't have hosting to share my copy at present. 
> 
> FWIW, here's a public rendering (with the "Alabaster" Sphinx theme) with
> your v3 applied:
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> https://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/QEMU-Docs-v4.0.0-143-g1cb2ca0415/_build/html/docs/interop/bitmaps.html
> 

Thank you!! We really need to figure out hosting for these.

> Thanks for the overhaul.  Afraid, I've been just too swamped to be able
> to look at this in detail, much as I'd love to.  I will slowly catch up.
> 
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> 
> (Note to self: send to the list the text-to-rST converted QEMU docs
> sitting locally on a Git branch.)
> 

PLEASE do! Please CC me on them. I realize it's not a priority for you
at the moment but I will happily take any existing work you've done.

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>> I think this new layout reads nicer in the HTML format than the old
>> one did, at the expense of looking less readable in the source tree
>> itself (though not completely unmanagable. We did decide to convert it
>> from Markdown to ReST, after all, so I am going all-in on ReST.)
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