On 20 May 2011 15:38, Guilherme Salgado guilherme.salgado@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