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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