Re: [Xen-devel] Xen document day (Oct 12 or 26)

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Xen document day (Oct 12 or 26)"):
> Since the guest APIs are stable there should be relatively little churn
> so perhaps a wiki page (or even series of pages) would be appropriate
> for this sort of thing?

I want this to be in-tree.  If it's in-tree, we can refuse patches
which do not update the documentation.

> I think this would be good too and in fact even more important than the
> interface documentation. Everyone needs to be able to build Xen to hack
> on it but only a subset need to know any particular API.
> 
> Also although we recommend that users consume Xen via their distro where
> possible such a guide would also help any who would rather build from
> scratch (e.g. because we've asked them to "try the latest version" or to
> bisect a bug etc).

This would be a good candidate for a wiki page, backed up by revisions
of the in-tree README.

Ian.

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