My vote is to own a fork. I agree with Laszlo that it’s very low maintenance (may even be able to automate it with an existing DevOps pipeline to run every day) and gives us the most control of our destiny.
- Bret
From: Rebecca Cran
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 8:01 AM
To: rfc@edk2.groups.io;
lersek@redhat.com; Kinney, Michael D;
devel@edk2.groups.io;
Bret Barkelew
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [edk2-rfc] [RFC] UnitTestFrameworkPkg cmocka submodule alternatives
On 12/17/20 8:54 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 12/17/20 15:48, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>
>> I don't know who or what the <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fneverware-mirrors&data=04%7C01%7CBret.Barkelew%40microsoft.com%7C4cd7a0f805864468a2cb08d8a2a50fb8%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637438177109105172%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=oOtke9Pjf8TFVV2D0nv1xW%2B2a9sBsXgbFo1A9fodooc%3D&reserved=0>
>> organization is, and I'd prefer not fetching code from them automatically.
>
> I'm sorry, this was silly.
>
> The whole point of git is "addressing by content". Our submodule
> reference in edk2 makes us check out the cmocka tree at a known hash, so
> where that comes from is totally irrelevant.
>
> I'm OK with the proposal as posted.
Also, apparently Neverware is part of Google:
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Rebecca Cran