Re: [PATCH 0/7] docs: State QEMU version and license in all HTML footers

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 at 10:55, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> This patchset is an effort to fix something up which I promised
> Markus I would do after we got the initial conversion to Sphinx
> done. The old QAPI reference documentation noted the documentation
> license in the texinfo source (but not in the generated HTML or
> in the generated manpages); Sphinx generated docs currently don't.

> I'm open to suggestions on:
>  * name of the new top-level section
>  * text wording
>  * whether we need to have the version number in the footer
>    (it's already in the sidebar under the QEMU logo, but this
>    seemed a bit too inconspicious, so I added it to the footer
>    since I was messing with it anyway)
>
> You can find a built version of the docs at:
> https://pm215.gitlab.io/-/qemu/-/jobs/1399259647/artifacts/public/index.html
>
> I had a look at getting our manpages to also state the license,
> but this is tricky due to various deficiencies in Sphinx.
> (We never have stated the license in our manpages, so this isn't
> a regression compared to the old texinfo setup.)
>
> Markus: do you feel this series is sufficient that we can remove
> the TODO lines in docs/interop/qemu-ga-ref.rst,
> docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.rst and docs/interop/qemu-storage-daemon-qmp-ref.rst
> as now being done?

Ping for any further review/opinions, in particular from Markus.
I'm intending to put this in for 6.1.

thanks
-- PMM