<p>Hi <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=1240066" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/NiKiZe">@NiKiZe</a></p>
<p>thank you for getting back to us! I've squashed the two commits as you recommended. We cannot simply build our own version of IPXE as we are working with IaaS providers to run our clusters in public cloud offerings. Those providers use, and rely on, <em>upstream</em> IPXE, and they would feel hard-pressed to install a custom binary from a 3rd party (in this case, us) in their datacenters. While we nevertheless explore that path forward, too, it doesn't feel like the ideal way out for anyone involved.</p>
<p>While working with IaaS providers we learned that this issue affects not just us, but other IaaS customers, too - hence our repeated mentioning of ongoing pain. Also, this issue is being referenced by 2 other FOSS projects, netboot and Fedora CoreOS, who also suffer from fall-out.</p>
<p>We understand when devs are busy with other things - we're devs ourselves. All we're asking for is a path forward with our patch. Let <em>us</em> do the work. Tell us <em>what</em> needs improvement.</p>
<p style="font-size:small;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;color:#666;">—<br />You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.<br />Reply to this email directly, <a href="https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/90#issuecomment-466643975">view it on GitHub</a>, or <a href="https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AArTVDpRqp6z10ELGbG9ZqPPuUKU3Y7Jks5vQTJAgaJpZM4a-EdD">mute the thread</a>.<img src="https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AArTVG5BqFzyEV2P5Te8cTG9WboDSRc5ks5vQTJAgaJpZM4a-EdD.gif" height="1" width="1" alt="" /></p>
<script type="application/json" data-scope="inboxmarkup">{"api_version":"1.0","publisher":{"api_key":"05dde50f1d1a384dd78767c55493e4bb","name":"GitHub"},"entity":{"external_key":"github/ipxe/ipxe","title":"ipxe/ipxe","subtitle":"GitHub repository","main_image_url":"https://github.githubassets.com/images/email/message_cards/header.png","avatar_image_url":"https://github.githubassets.com/images/email/message_cards/avatar.png","action":{"name":"Open in GitHub","url":"https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe"}},"updates":{"snippets":[{"icon":"PERSON","message":"@t-lo in #90: Hi @NiKiZe \r\n\r\nthank you for getting back to us! I've squashed the two commits as you recommended. We cannot simply build our own version of IPXE as we are working with IaaS providers to run our clusters in public cloud offerings. Those providers use, and rely on, *upstream* IPXE, and they would feel hard-pressed to install a custom binary from a 3rd party (in this case, us) in their datacenters. While we nevertheless explore that path forward, too, it doesn't feel like the ideal way out for anyone involved.\r\n\r\nWhile working with IaaS providers we learned that this issue affects not just us, but other IaaS customers, too - hence our repeated mentioning of ongoing pain. Also, this issue is being referenced by 2 other FOSS projects, netboot and Fedora CoreOS, who also suffer from fall-out.\r\n\r\nWe understand when devs are busy with other things - we're devs ourselves. All we're asking for is a path forward with our patch. Let *us* do the work. Tell us *what* needs improvement."}],"action":{"name":"View Pull Request","url":"https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/90#issuecomment-466643975"}}}</script>
<script type="application/ld+json">[
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "EmailMessage",
"potentialAction": {
"@type": "ViewAction",
"target": "https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/90#issuecomment-466643975",
"url": "https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/90#issuecomment-466643975",
"name": "View Pull Request"
},
"description": "View this Pull Request on GitHub",
"publisher": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "GitHub",
"url": "https://github.com"
}
}
]</script>