I think what is going on is just fine. I'm delighted to see the haswell stuff coming out so early. It's quite amazing to see such a short time between chipsets being announced and code appearing in coreboot.
If we go back to the origin, that's how it always was with boards. Bringup happened in a very exposed way, with partial commits.
This Is Not A Kernel. By doing release the way we do, you get visibility very early in the process.
Let's not get too tied up in process details. Let's get on with the work.
ron