On Jul 10, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Kinney, Michael D <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am looking for comments on a proposal on how EDK II BaseTools is 
> maintained.  The goal is to move all tool related development activities to 
> the EDK II BaseTools.  This is to address community feedback that there are 
> long delays between changes made to the edk2-buildtools sub-project and the 
> changes being propagated to EDK II BaseTools.  There has also been feedback 
> that some developers do not want the overhead of pulling Win32 binaries when 
> they are not required.  I am interested in your feedback (positive or 
> negative) on this proposal and if you think steps should be added or removed 
> or modified.
> 
> I would appreciate feedback by 7/18/2014.  Please let us know if you need 
> more time to evaluate this proposal.
> 
> Proposed steps:
> ===============
> 1) Create new sub-project for BaseTools binaries 
>       a. SVN Link: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2-toolbinaries/code/trunk/
>       b. Status: Done.
> 2) Intel to provide build server for BaseTools Win32 binaries
>       a. SVN Link: 
> https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2-toolbinaries/code/trunk/Win32/
>       b. Build Frequency: Once per day, but only if there are source changes 
> since last build.
>       c. Build Time: 3 AM PDT
>       d. Build server to send email with build log when build is performed.
>       e. Build server send email that no build was required if no source 
> changes since last build.
>       f. Status: In progress.  Need a few more validation steps.
> 3) Delete Win32 binaries from EDK II BaseTools and replace with an SVN extern.
>       a. Default will continue to pull Win32 binaries
>       b. Developers that do not want Win32 binaries can opt-out by ignoring 
> externs.

How does this work with a git mirror? Is it possible to setup an officially 
supported git mirror for the svn?

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

>       c. Date: TBD.  Goal is immediately after build server is stable.
> 4) Merge sources from Edk2-buildtools to EDK II BaseTools
>       a. Date: TBD.  Goal is immediately after build server is stable.
> 5) Change permissions on Edk2-buildtools sub-project to read-only and mark 
> sub-project as inactive.
>       a. Date: TBD.  Goal is immediately after EDK II BaseTools is synced 
> with EDK2-buildtools.
> 6) Retire [email protected] mailing list.  All 
> commits to BaseTools sources will show up on 
> [email protected].
> 7) Retire [email protected] and move all BaseTools 
> related discussions to [email protected] 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike

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