On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 07:57:23PM +0100, Patrick Georgi wrote: [...] > With that in mind, I want to throw out some ideas: > > * Let's have regular release cycles. maybe quarterly, eg in the > middle of each quarter (that is, feb 15, may 15, aug 15, nov 15) to > avoid certain vacation-heavy periods.
Just my $.02, but I think having regular coreboot releases would be a very good thing. [...] > IMHO this gives us a couple of advantages over the current non-process: > It gives us the opportunity for exposure to the world since releases tend to > draw some media attention. > And it may encourage some more focussed testing (on board-status) than the > current approach, which may increase participation - having your port listed > as working on the 2015.08 release notes is a bigger incentive than some green > box on some obscure wiki-page. > We can point people to certain revisions with more confidence (and with a > nicer name than a SHA1 of a random tree), which will make vendors' lives > easier (and in combination with that media exposure, also community support > on #coreboot and the list when people ask what revision to use). > Very well said. -Kevin -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
