On 20 May 2011 15:38, Guilherme Salgado <guilherme.salg...@linaro.org> wrote: > During LDS we agreed to provide prebuilt Linaro images at our > milestones[1], for users who can't/won't run linaro-media-create. One > thing we forgot to discuss, though, is if it's worth doing so for all > image types or just for the LEB(s). > > Our downloads page (http://www.linaro.org/downloads/) has 4 different > image types, but the email for weekly testing, for example, lists only > UbuntuDesktop as official and the others as community images. More > importantly, though, I'm not sure the people who just want to try Linaro > quickly will be interested in anything other than UbuntuDesktop at this > point, so we might as well avoid the extra work to provide images that > are unlikely to be of any use. > > Can anybody think of other reasons why we should provide images of all > types?
The short answer is "if we care enough to release it we should care enough to release it in a format that people can easily use". If there are too many image types then we should cut down on the number so we're producing fewer artefacts of all types. At a bare minimum, prebuilt SD card images should come in a "general desktop" and the "nano" small size version. But those are just my two use cases (one for functionality and one for small download and disk size); it seems likely that some of the people who would be interested in the other image types will have all the constraints we discussed at UDS that make linaro-media-create not a usable solution for them. We're only doing this once a month, we should just produce images for everything rather than trying to second guess which we can get away with not generating. -- PMM _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
