On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Krau, Michael P <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Our development around MinnowBoard MAX are now centered on the Open
> Source community site. The BSD content for MinnowBoard MAX is being
> developed from the open source repository (including the platform specific
> packages – Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg and Vlv2TbltDevicePkg ). So the
> development team is working directly to the sources on the open site. This
> was established at the insistence of keeping the development open to the
> community.
>
I *do* like this, because with other open source projects which are
maintained by a company I've seen the public code sometimes being several
weeks behind what the developers are working with on the company's servers,
and so you don't know if a bug has already been fixed or not.
> To make matters more difficult, that site (firmware.intel.com) has rules
> that files are not posted until they have been through a complete
> validation cycle. So, while we are moving at one speed on the Open Source
> site, the binary files are held to a different speed/cadence. In the case
> of this time period, there have been changes in the binaries, which come
> back to the problems when using the tip of the Open sources and the old
> files.
>
I presume this couldn't be sidestepped by someone at Intel (or otherwise)
setting up a server on (e.g.) Amazon AWS, even if there was a requirement
for users to register on that site to get access to unvalidated binaries?
> As an aside, there is an effort underway to improve this binary
> distribution de-synch problem and make other requested improvements. As
> part of this effort we would be grateful to hear of where the process is
> failing, and how we can make improvements.
>
>
As I've mentioned elsewhere, personally I think the edk2 project (and, in
turn MNW2) is a bit too big now for a single mailing list to handle
discussions, bug reports and review requests/feedback - and would like to
see the addition of at least a public replacement for the old bug tracker
that was lost with the sourceforge changes last year. I'd be happy to host
it, but so far haven't seen much interest.
--
Bruce Cran
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