+1 aditi
> On Feb 25, 2016, at 12:34 PM, Christopher Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Justin, > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:31:19AM +1100, Justin Mclean wrote: >> One thing people are going to have trouble with: The instruction need >> improving the README points to [1] which has: "You do not need to >> download source code and build the newt tool for this project. You >> will simply use the available executable instead.” >> >> Which is not much help if you only have the source release :-) IMO >> should point to instructions on how the build from the source release >> or better still have the instructions in the README as they can change >> from release to release. > > That is a good point. I agree that the readme files definitely do need > some work. > >> One very minor thing usually each RC is named slightly differently >> -rc1, -rc2 etc etc (or in this case -b1, -b2, etc etc) so it easy to >> distinguish between them, there’s no caching issues or the like. >> Basically one less thing that could go wrong :-) > > You are saying the "-b1" should go at the end of the filename? I.e., > > apache-larva-0.8.0-incubating-b1.tgz > > (in the release candidate, the "-b1" is before "-incubating"). > > That sounds like a good idea. This is a change we should incorporate > into the next release. Too bad there will be a naming inconsistency > among the first two releases (assuming the vote for this one passes), > but that is certainly not a major issue. > >> BTW Did anyone test the release build on a real board? > > Marko already answered this question directly, but I want to add that we > do have plans to run automated tests on a variety of hardware, rather > than just the x86 simulator. The Mynewt testutil library that we use > for the simulated tests was written with this use case in mind. Of > course, it will take quite a bit of work to get this fully up and > running :). > > Thanks, > Chris
