[edk2-devel] TianoCore Meeting Minutes - August 2021

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting

August 12, 2021



EVENTS:

Google Summer of Code:

  *   7 projects were selected, one of the projects got dropped before 
mid-term. All projects are listed here: 
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6376892141142016/
  *   All 6 are doing well.  Code review in progress. Projects are targeted to 
be complete by Aug 23.
  *   Students should have the patches submitted by Aug 16, so we can get them 
reviewed and merge by Aug 23.
  *   Community Action: provide feedback to students. Next week, we need 
maintainers to review patches.

No new updates on UEFI plugfest



Stable Tag updates:

  *   EDK2 Stable Tag 202108 soft freeze complete, hard freeze (8/13).
  *   Details here: 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning
  *   We are maintaining 2 weeks between hard freeze and final Release. 
Previously we had 1 wk gap between hard freeze and release. Now with a 2 week 
gap allows us to find issues and fix those before releasing. Moving forward we 
will maintain 2 week gap between hard freeze and Release.
  *   Stable tag improvements: Liming will start adding tags for soft and hard 
freeze. This will help the community as they pull in the tags, when issues are 
reported, test issues/results can be tagged to the soft/hard freeze. This is 
change from what we had earlier.



Community Opens:

  1.  Open from Rebecca - EDK2 Lib C patch. Lib C has not updated for a while. 
Unknown state on support and maintainership.

  *   Update from Mike Kinney: There are no maintainers currently. Its based on 
a very old version of the code, need to bring it up to date. There are a few 
proposals in progress. There is active discussion in the email distribution 
list (dev list). Does community have any concerns around current proposals? 
(staging repository CDE package, Standard lib package (PDC lib) in staging).
  *   Community Action: We would like community involved in this discussion. If 
there are any concerns around downstream use around the licenses, please let us 
know.
Do we want to add full standard C lib support to EDK2 repo? We need drive 
consensus within the next 2-4 weeks.

  1.  Open from Rebecca: Xcode Wiki page needs to be updated. It seems to be 
slow. Andrew has looked into it.

  *   Action: Rebecca send an email on the mailing list. Status: Closed. Liming 
has updated.

  1.  Open from Felix on Coverity & Static analyzer for EDK2 -

  *   Mike Kinney noted: It's not maintained currently. Goal is to have the CI 
process set up by this year.

Review the content with TianoCore Infosec community.

  *   Mike Kinney noted potential approaches: To eliminate false positives or 
mark as not an issue if its a false positive so we are aware. Open Coverity is 
a powerful tool for open source projects. it's a gap currently in EDK2 project 
to not have a static analysis tool. We need resources to work on the CI system.
  *   Felix is looking at Coverity and interested in supporting.
  *   Action: Felix to open a RFC discussion and lead a planning discussion. We 
don't do static analysis today as part of the open source project.


Regards,
Soumya Guptha

TianoCore Community Manager






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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - July

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting



July 8, 2021



EVENTS:

Google Summer of Code:

  *   TianoCore projects are listed here: 
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6376892141142016/
  *   Going well. Midterm reviews are due in a few days.
  *   Students have started submitting patches. Students need to complete 
projects by mid-august.
  *   Community Action: If you see any emails from the students, please provide 
feedback and support them.



Stable Tag updates:

EDK2 Stable Tag 202108 is collecting features. Please send in if you have any 
feature requests.

  *   Details here: 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning


Stewards Meeting Download (update from Mike Kinney)

  *   No download this month.

Opens

  *   Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (Red Hat) plans to cover OVMF activities, 
collaborating with Lazlo (Red Hat).
  *   Mike Kinney updated on - Enabling pull request. Mergify feature is now 
much simpler and a big improvement on configuration file, maintainers workflow. 
Maintainers don't have to manually rebase pull request when change requests 
occur. This feature will be included as part of the upcoming stable tag.



Regards,

Soumya Guptha

TianoCore Community Manager





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[edk2-devel] Reminder: Community meeting this week

[Soumya Guptha]

Hi Team,
I would like to remind you on the community meeting this Thursday, July 8.
Typically, we have the call during the first week of each month. Due to the 
long weekend last week, I have moved the call to this Thursday.
Please attend the call.

Thanks,
Soumya

Soumya Guptha
Firmware Ecosystem Enabling Manager, SFP/IAGS




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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - June

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting

June 10, 2021



EVENTS:

  *   UEFI Plugfest (update from Dick Wilkins)
  *   Plugfest is being planned for early April 2022 in Oregon. Detailed 
planning of the schedule and logistics will kick off in a few weeks.
  *   ICWG is hosting UEFI Virtual Plugfest webinars, if you are interested in 
presenting, please send your proposals to UEFI plugfest.

Google Summer of Code (update from Nate Desimone)

  *   Google has announced this year's Summer of Code students. TianoCore is 
mentoring 7 students this year, which is more than 3 times larger than our 
previous high of 2 students! The list of projects is available here: 
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6376892141142016/
  *   Students have started submitting patches. Students need to complete 
projects by mid-august.
  *   Community Action: Provide feedback to students and support them to be 
successful.


Stable Tag updates:

  *   EDK2 Stable Tag 202105 has been released. EDK2 Stable Tag 202108 is 
collecting features.
  *   Details here: 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning
  *   Action: Bugzilla needs to be updated with the latest Stable tag info - 
Mike Kinney will update.
  *   From Google summer of code projects, if there are any features impacting 
EDK2 core, we need to make sure that those features get into the stable tag. 
Mentors need to work on getting those features in and communicate with Liming 
Gao. Action: Nate Desimone plans to communicate with the mentors and educate 
them on the process.


Stewards Meeting Download (update from Mike Kinney)

  *   Discussed process issue - During beginning soft/hard releases, we need to 
add a RC1 & RC0 tags when soft and hard freeze are announced to support 
validation. Lazlo plans to write an RFC on this topic. Once this approves, 
liming may need to update the documentation.
  *   There is some confusion with Roles and Responsibilities (R) between 
maintainers and reviewers around reviewing packet (push label/merge). Reviewers 
also have push access. But Maintainer is the gate keeper and should approve the 
final changes to the package. Action for Stewards: We need to update the 
documentation (development process, who we are and any other wiki pages that 
are impacted) and clarify the R
  *   Enhance support on previous Stable Tags - we will support critical bug 
fixes and security issues to the most recent Stable Tag.
 *   Release process between stable tags is typically 3 months. Today we 
are operating reactively based on request. We want to have a standard process. 
If there is a critical issue (such as a security issue)/bug fixes in the 
subprojects, we want to be more proactive by having a standard operating 
process to have these propagated into our most recent stable tag.
 *   Action: Liming to update the support of Stable Tags to reflect this 
change.



Opens

  *   (Open from Nate) NVME 2.0 just got formally published. Most interesting 
feature to be evaluated is "Zoned name space" feature. Any UEFI spec changes. 
Action: Evaluate and determine to see if we need to support this feature. What 
will be our plan for doing this? A topic for Ray Ni's design meeting. Soumya to 
communicate with Ray Ni on this topic.
  *   Update from Soumya: Puja Pandya moved on to pursue another opportunity. 
Soumya Guptha will continue to lead TianoCore Community Management.



Acknowledgements
Mike Kinney thanked Kevin Davis for doing analysis for UEFI 2.8 specification 
gaps.


Regards,
Soumya Guptha
TianoCore Community Manager






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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Meeting Minutes - May 2021

[Soumya Guptha]

Revised minutes: 

TianoCore Community Meeting

May 6, 2021

EVENTS:
UEFI Plugfest (update from Dick Wilkins):
We are planning a plug fest during the week of April 4th during 2022 in 
Hillsboro, Oregon.

Google Summer of Code (update from Nate Desimone)
  *   Google has reviewed the project submissions and will communicate the 
decisions to those applicants on the accepted projects on May 17th.
  *   Projects will begin from Jun 7 till Aug 16th.
  *   Community Action: We encourage entire community to be involved, for 
getting your input/comments and supporting our mentors. The community can get 
involved in activities such as code reviews etc.. we need support from 
maintainers, reviewers. Be responsive on the mailing list. you can respond to 
students when they post questions on the mailing list.


Stable Tag updates:

o   Up to date information: 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning

o   Feature planning freeze scheduled for 5/10/2021


Stewards Meeting Download (Mike Kinney)

*   Limited attendance this month.

o   We are seeing an increase in EDK2 CI failure/coverage issues. Azure moved 
to Ubuntu 20 and we are still on Ubuntu 18. There are some gaps (such as 
emulator package) that we are addressing. There is a specific failure on 
emulator package that we need to disable temporarily. Ubuntu GCC IA32 
EmulatorPkg - 32-bit X11 dependency conflicts. May need to consider adding text 
console support.

o   Action: Mike Kinney will submit an RFC

*   Bugzilla 988 (https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988) - 
performance issues in handles database.

o   DXE core implementation and performance issues on large number of handles.

o   Question to the Community: Can we drop EFI 1.02 driver compatibility 
support from DXE core?

Removing the compatibility will help the performance issues, but not fully 
resolve them. Risk is extremely low for support. Simple change in DXE core. 
Base tools still have support for building EDK1 style modules. Action: Mike to 
start an RFC on this topic.



Opens:
Dick Wilkins - MSFT maintains the list of revoked code signatures for UEFI code 
modules and loaders for the UEFI Forum and produces binary files that contain 
revoked signatures for use by secure boot.  MSFT has approved the latest update 
of revoked signatures list for general testing. They are posted at 
https://uefi.org/revocationlistfile. These files should only be used for 
testing at this time. Use of these files my cause systems to not boot and 
should not be used in shipping products without appropriate planning and 
testing.


Regards,
Soumya

Soumya Guptha
Firmware Ecosystem Enabling Manager, Intel Corporation










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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Meeting Minutes - May 2021

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting

May 6, 2021





EVENTS:
UEFI Plugfest (update from Dick Wilkins):
We are planning a plug fest during the week of April 4th during 2022 in 
Hillsboro, Oregon.

Google Summer of Code (update from Nate Desimone)

  *   Google has accepted all of our projects. Google will make that 
announcement.
  *   Google will communicate the decisions to those applicants on the accepted 
projects on May 17th.
  *   Projects will begin from Jun 7 till Aug 16th.
  *   Community Action: We encourage entire community to be involved, for 
getting your input/comments and supporting our mentors. The community can 
involved in activities such as code reviews etc.. we need support from 
maintainers, reviewers. Be responsive on the mailing list. you can respond to 
students when they post questions on the mailing list.


Stable Tag updates:

o   Up to date information: 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning

o   Feature planning freeze scheduled for 5/10/2021


Stewards Meeting Download (Mike Kinney)

*   Limited attendance this month.

o   We are seeing an increase in EDK2 CI failure/coverage issues. Azure moved 
to Ubuntu 20 and we are still on Ubuntu 18. There are some gaps (such as 
emulator package) that we are addressing. There is a specific failure on 
emulator package that we need to disable temporarily. Ubuntu GCC IA32 
EmulatorPkg - 32-bit X11 dependency conflicts. May need to consider adding text 
console support.

o   Action: Mike Kinney will submit an RFC

*   Bugzilla 988 (https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988) - 
performance issues in handles database.

o   DXE core implementation and performance issues on large number of handles.

o   Question to the Community: Can we drop EFI 1.02 driver compatibility 
support from DXE core?

Removing the compatibility will help the performance issues, but not fully 
resolve them. Risk is extremely low for support. Simple change in DXE core. 
Base tools still have support for building EDK1 style modules. Action: Mike to 
start an RFC on this topic.



Opens:
Dick Wilkins - MSFT maintains the list of revoked code signatures for UEFI code 
modules and loaders for the UEFI Forum and produces
binary files that contain revoked signatures for use by secure boot.  MSFT has 
approved the latest update of revoked
signatures list for general testing. They are posted at 
https://uefi.org/revocationlistfile. These files should only be used for
testing at this time. Use of these files my cause systems to not boot and 
should not be used in shipping products without
appropriate planning and testing.


Regards,
Soumya

Soumya Guptha
Firmware Ecosystem Enabling Manager, Intel Corporation





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[edk2-devel] Community Manager - Introducing Puja Pandya

[Soumya Guptha]

Dear Community members,

Thank you for providing me the opportunity to serve as TianoCore Community 
Manager.
Due to other project priorities, I am stepping aside, and my colleague Puja 
Pandya will be taking on the Community management role & responsibilities. I 
will continue to participate as time permits.

A little bit about Puja:
Puja has been working at Intel for 6 years, focusing in firmware tools and 
infrastructure. Her background includes UX, software engineering and project 
management.

Please join me in supporting Puja as she ramps into her new role.

Thanks,
Soumya

Soumya Guptha
Firmware Ecosystem Enabling Manager, SFP/IAGS





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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - April

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes

April 8, 2021



EVENTS:

UEFI Plugfest (Soumya Guptha):

  *   No new update this month.
  *   Currently UEFI is hosting virtual webinars during 2021, listed here 
(https://uefi.org/events/upcoming).
  *   If you have topics to propose, please visit uefi.org/events and submit 
your abstracts.
  *   ICWG team is planning to host a face-to-face UEFI plugfest in Oregon 
during spring 2022.



Google Summer of Code (Nate Desimone):
*   TianoCore was accepted! 12 students have expressed interest, 4 formal 
applications so far.
*   Expecting more applications before application deadline April 13th
*   During the application review process, we will review apps and submit 
our selections to Google. They will let us know how many slots we can have for 
our project.
*   We currently have 6 mentors, we need about 2 per participant/student.
*   We don't have enough mentors, we may need to reject some applications 
if we don't get enough mentors.
*   Community Action: If anyone is interested in mentoring students, please 
contact Nate DeSimone 
o   Mentor Responsibilities listed here: 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/GSoC2021#potential-mentors
o   Time commitment: Requires about 2.5 hours/week over the course of 10 weeks 
this summer
o   Listed on twitter - https://twitter.com/tianocore/status/1379207540005761024



Stable Tag (Soumya Guptha/Liming Gao):

  *   EDK2-stable202105 is in planning stage. May 10th is the feature planning 
freeze. Please send your feature requests soon.
  *   More information here - 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning
  *   Liming: currently monitoring EDKII community mail list to document change 
request. Latest data is available on the wiki page. Update notes are also 
included on the wiki with changes that will impact release planning for the 
next stable tag.
  *   Open: Kevin Davis: Is there a plan for someone going through the UEFI 
specs and verifying requirements/optional features that are not in the code? 
The current code base is a mixture of UEFI 2.7/2.8/2.9/ACPI etc.
o   Response from Mike Kinney: That sounds like a great community activity, 
would you like to lead the evaluation of that? We do not have that in the plans 
yet. Building that feature list and working with Liming to set some feature 
goals would be great. Then we can review the features and figure out a schedule 
for them
o   Response from Kevin Davis: checked with one of his engineers in Insyde, he 
agreed to work on that. He will provide an update next week after he has a 
better idea of schedule. Kevin plans to connect with Mike Kinney on further 
questions/updates.



Stewards Download: (Mike Kinney)
*   There are some inconsistencies in our tool chains for enabling symbolic 
debug
*   General concerns that we don't have very good recipes on how to set up 
source level debug (GDB connection, JTAG connection, UDK debugger etc). There 
are some things we could do to improve that material.
o   Soumya: Q3 effort?
o   Mike: observation, no dates yet. Still investigating.
o   Soumya: Do you expect features or doc reorganization?
o   Mike: combination, requirements will be tracked on Bugzilla for both code 
and documentation as investigation progresses



Opens:

Soumya Past Opens:
*   We have moved to Teams. We will continue to use this for the next 
couple months, let us know if you're having any issues with connecting to calls 
using Teams

Pull-requests:
*   Mike: Priority wise - this is still one of the highest priority. 
Actively working on that. Found landing zone for service, will deploy it there 
for formal evaluation from the community. Will use same server that is hosting 
our Bugzilla service right now

Soumya:
*   Puja Pandya will lead TianoCore community management starting May, 
Soumya will still attend meetings as able but will be focusing on Firmware 
Ecosystem Enabling Management going forward. Please provide your support to Puja



Regards,

Soumya





Soumya Guptha

TianoCore Community Manager, Intel









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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - March

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes
March 4, 2021

EVENTS:
UEFI Plugfest:
Currently virtual webinars are held during 2021 and this will continue to the 
remainder of 2021. Webinars are listed here (https://uefi.org/events/upcoming). 
If you have topics to propose, please visit uefi.org/events and submit your 
abstracts.
ICWG team is planning to host a face-to-face UEFI plugfest in Oregon during 
spring 2022. Virtual webinars during 2021 are listed here 
(https://uefi.org/events/upcoming)

STABLE TAG:
edk2-stable202102 is in planning stage. Please send your feature requests soon.
you can visit here for more information - 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning

STEWARDS DOWNLOAD: (Mike Kinney)
No new topics this month.

Please get new RFCs, tech proposals etc.. and bring those in Design Review 
Meetings run by Ray Ni.

Opens:
1) Community meetings will be moved from Webex to Microsoft Teams starting late 
this month. No objections from the attendees.
2) Status on - Line ending conversations - prioritized after Git hub pull 
request. Targeting during 2H' 2021. We need to do some trial repo before we 
push it. Some files in edk2 repo, we may not be able to convert, need time to 
experiment.
3) update from Nate Desimone - Tigerlake Min platform released last month on 
EDK2. Community has been filing bugs. Whitley and Cedar Island Min platform is 
work in progress.
4) Google summer code (sponsored internship program run by Google) - Nate 
Desimone sent the application for TianoCore open source to Google. Nate singed 
up to be the program coordinator. Lot of interest from the community to be a 
mentor. We will hear by Mar 9th, if we get accepted, we need to get the mentors 
together and work on processing student applications.


Regards,
Soumya


Soumya Guptha
Firmware Ecosystem Enabling Manager, Intel






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[edk2-devel] Community meeting this week - please resync your calendar

[Soumya Guptha]

Hi Folks,

Tianocore community meeting is coming up this week, on 3/4 from 9am-10am (PST) 
and 7.30pm-8.30pm (PST). 

We had some issues with WebEx recently. Please resync and subscribe to the 
calendar (https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/calendar) so you have the latest 
series.


Thanks,
Soumya


Soumya Guptha
Tianocore Community & Firmware Ecosystem Enabling Manager, Intel Corporation




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Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-announce] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - 2/11 & 2/4

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes (EMEA/NMO)
February 11, 2021

EVENTS:
No new updates.

STABLE TAG:
edk2-stable202102 - Feature Planning freeze on 2/15
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning

STEWARDS DOWNLOAD:
*   Design meeting - we discussed on Automation & CI system.
   Community Action: Need help from the community on ECC tool (EFI code 
checker), we have critical issues, need help quickly.
   We don't have a dedicated maintainer for ECC tool. Need volunteers to do 
development work on the ECC. Please let Soumya, Mike Kinney and other Stewards, 
and/or the mailing list.
   There are a few features that need a newer version of NASM. We will be 
updating the version of NASM.

*   Workflow for maintainers: Task is to Evaluate the automation feature 
and get feedback. Workflow of maintainers to submit multiple pull requests. 
Issue - causing extra work, process issue. We are investigating on 
automation.If there is any workflow that is inefficient or anything that we can 
do to increase the efficiency, please give us that feedback.

*   Google summer code (sponsored internship program run by google). Need 
some mentors to mentor the interns. Tianocore open source needs to apply. 
Application deadline Feb 19th. We need to develop interesting ideas for summer 
projects. Nate will start an offline thread to discuss ideas for projects. 
Couple of people have expressed some interest in becoming mentors.
   Community Action: If you are interested in either mentoring or have a 
project idea, please send an email to 
(nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com<mailto:nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com>).
   Deadline is Feb 19th to send the proposal to Google. Send your ideas soon to 
Nate.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Acknowledge Gary Lin from Suse (g...@suse.com<mailto:g...@suse.com>) from Harry 
Hsiung (Intel)
https Boot Ovmfpkg and MdeModulePkg with TLS LSIScsi patches


Regards,
Soumya

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TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes (APAC/NMO)
February 4, 2021



EVENTS:
No new updates.

STABLE TAG:
edk2-stable202102 - Feature Planning freeze on 2/15

https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning

STEWARDS DOWNLOAD (Mike Kinney)
  *   Design meeting - we discussed on Automation & CI system.
  *   Community Action: Need help from the community on ECC tool (EFI code 
checker), we have critical issues, need help quickly.
 *   Kevin - will explore to see if someone has any expertise wrt ECC tool.

  *   Sean plans to send to the info to the community on the tool to help 
format the source code. Sean will send it to the mailing list.
Suggests making ECC smaller.

  *   Addressed all issues related to cmocka.

  *   Workflow for maintainers: some maintainers like to work on multiple pull 
requests, causing extra work, process issue. We are investigating on 
automation. Task is to Evaluate the automation feature and get feedback.

  *   Bugzilla Feature request - update on NASM compiler version will start 
now. This is not required by developers until after the Q1 stable tag.


Opens:

  1.  Nate - Google summer code (sponsored internship program run by google). 
Need some mentors to mentor the interns. Tianocore open source needs to apply. 
Application deadline Feb 19th. We need to develop interesting ideas for summer 
projects. Nate will start an offline thread to discuss ideas for projects. 
Couple of people have expressed some interest in becoming mentors.
Community Action: If you are interested in either mentoring or have a project 
idea, please send an email to 
(nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com<mailto:nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com>).
Deadline is Feb 19th to send the proposal to Google. Send your ideas soon to 
Nate.

  1.  Sean - code contribution, project management - are we doing anything to 
improve.

Acknowledgments:
Community Action: Please send Soumya if you like to acknowledge anyone from the 
community, if anyone helped you close bugs or reviewed code etc..We will post 
those acknowledgements on the community page.



Soumya Guptha
Firmware Ecosystem Enabling Manager, SFP/IAGS













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Re: [edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - 2/4

[Soumya Guptha]

Great to hear Bret. Thanks.
Folks, this is a reminder. The deadline for submitting our project (Tianocore) 
proposal to Google summer code is approaching soon (Feb 19th), please do reach 
out to Nate Desimone if you have any project ideas.

Thanks,
Soumya

From: Bret Barkelew 
Sent: Friday, February 5, 2021 1:26 PM
To: Guptha, Soumya K ; annou...@edk2.groups.io; 
devel@edk2.groups.io; Desimone, Nathaniel L 
Subject: RE: TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - 2/4

@Desimone, Nathaniel L<mailto:nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com>, I'm interested 
in mentorship for the GSC project. Would like to talk offline about potential 
projects and past experience.

RE: ECC, we're internally evaluating 'uncrustify' as an option to 1) check for 
formatting violations and 2) provide a tool to automatically format code prior 
to submission. There are changes that we've made to the tool to support ECC, 
but there are some small places that we're coming up short. What would be the 
appetite to evaluate our progress and discuss possibly adjusting the ECC to be 
more flexible where we've come up short?

- Bret

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Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 8:12 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [edk2-announce] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - 
2/4

TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes (APAC/NMO)

February 4, 2021



EVENTS:

No new updates.



STABLE TAG:



edk2-stable202102 - Feature Planning freeze on 2/15

https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ftianocore%2Ftianocore.github.io%2Fwiki%2FEDK-II-Release-Planningdata=04%7C01%7CBret.Barkelew%40microsoft.com%7Ca97d5c438d514d0859ea08d8c98c43a6%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637480951557144463%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000sdata=UA13OI0UuZ2QSboHsE4dZY5J0Az1uL8Boxldw0jdtmU%3Dreserved=0





STEWARDS DOWNLOAD (Mike Kinney)

  *   Design meeting - we discussed on Automation & CI system.



  *   Community Action: Need help from the community on ECC tool (EFI code 
checker), we have critical issues, need help quickly.
 *   Kevin - will explore to see if someone has any expertise wrt ECC tool.



  *   Sean plans to send to the info to the community on the tool to help 
format the source code. Sean will send it to the mailing list.
Suggests making ECC smaller.



  *   Addressed all issues related to cmocka.



  *   Workflow for maintainers: some maintainers like to work on multiple pull 
requests, causing extra work, process issue. We are investigating on 
automation. Task is to Evaluate the automation feature and get feedback.



  *   Bugzilla Feature request - update on NASM compiler version will start 
now. This is not required by developers until after the Q1 stable tag.





Opens:

  1.  Nate - Google summer code (sponsored internship program run by google). 
Need some mentors to mentor the interns. Tianocore open source needs to apply. 
Application deadline Feb 19th. We need to develop interesting ideas for summer 
projects. Nate will start an offline thread to discuss ideas for projects. 
Couple of people have expressed some interest in becoming mentors.
Community Action: If you are interested in either mentoring or have a project 
idea, please send an email to 
(nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com<mailto:nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com>).



  1.  Sean - code contribution, project management - are we doing anything to 
improve.



Acknowledgments:

Community Action: Please send Soumya if you like to acknowledge anyone from the 
community, if anyone helped you close bugs or reviewed code etc..We will post 
those acknowledgements on the community page.



Soumya Guptha
Firmware Ecosystem Enabling Manager, SFP/IAGS











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Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-announce] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please see updates

[Soumya Guptha]

Hi Folks, 
This is a Reminder for tomorrow's Community meeting in the morning for 
EMEA/NAMO from 9-10am (PST), that was rescheduled from last week. 

Talk to you all tomorrow. 

Thanks,
Soumya
 


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Guptha
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 9:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [edk2-announce] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please see 
updates

Hi Folks,
Since we had Webex issues this morning, I will be rescheduling the community 
meeting morning call (EMEA/NAMO) to next week, Thursday 11th, 9-10am (PST). 
We will continue to keep the evening community call with APAC/NAMO today. I 
will update the WebEx link for the APAC. Please resync your calendar.   

Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Regards,
Soumya

-Original Message-
From: annou...@edk2.groups.io  On Behalf Of Soumya 
Guptha
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 9:06 AM
To: Desimone, Nathaniel L ; 
devel@edk2.groups.io; annou...@edk2.groups.io
Subject: Re: [edk2-announce] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please 
resync your calendar

Bridge for this morning's 9am call - please see below. previous meeting invite 
isn't working.



When it's time, join your Webex meeting here.


Meeting number (access code): 130 576 2005 Meeting password: HntHxcu$733


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-Original Message-
From: Guptha, Soumya K 
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 9:01 AM
To: Guptha, Soumya K ; Desimone, Nathaniel L 
; devel@edk2.groups.io; annou...@edk2.groups.io
Subject: RE: [edk2-announce] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please 
resync your calendar
Importance: High





Folks,

There seems to be an error in the invite. please give me 5 mins, I will send 
you a new invite.



Thanks,

Soumya

On 2/2/21, 4:34 PM, "annou...@edk2.groups.io on behalf of Soumya 
Guptha<mailto:annou...@edk2.groups.io%20on%20behalf%20of%20Soumya%20Guptha>" 
mailto:annou...@edk2.groups.io%20on%20behalf%20of%20soumya.k.gup...@intel.com>>
 wrote:



Dear Community members,



Tianocore community meeting is coming up this week, on 2/4 from 9am-10am 
(PST) and 7.30pm-8.30pm (PST).



Please resync and subscribe to the calendar 
(https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/calendar) so you have the latest series.





Thanks,

Soumya





Soumya Guptha

Tianocore Community & Firmware Ecosystem Enabling Manager,

Intel Corporation


















































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Re: [edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - 2/4

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes (APAC/NMO)

February 4, 2021



EVENTS:

No new updates.



STABLE TAG:



edk2-stable202102 - Feature Planning freeze on 2/15

https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning





STEWARDS DOWNLOAD (Mike Kinney)

  *   Design meeting - we discussed on Automation & CI system.



  *   Community Action: Need help from the community on ECC tool (EFI code 
checker), we have critical issues, need help quickly.
 *   Kevin - will explore to see if someone has any expertise wrt ECC tool.



  *   Sean plans to send to the info to the community on the tool to help 
format the source code. Sean will send it to the mailing list.
Suggests making ECC smaller.



  *   Addressed all issues related to cmocka.



  *   Workflow for maintainers: some maintainers like to work on multiple pull 
requests, causing extra work, process issue. We are investigating on 
automation. Task is to Evaluate the automation feature and get feedback.



  *   Bugzilla Feature request - update on NASM compiler version will start 
now. This is not required by developers until after the Q1 stable tag.





Opens:

  1.  Nate - Google summer code (sponsored internship program run by google). 
Need some mentors to mentor the interns. Tianocore open source needs to apply. 
Application deadline Feb 19th. We need to develop interesting ideas for summer 
projects. Nate will start an offline thread to discuss ideas for projects. 
Couple of people have expressed some interest in becoming mentors.
Community Action: If you are interested in either mentoring or have a project 
idea, please send an email to (nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com).



  1.  Sean - code contribution, project management - are we doing anything to 
improve.



Acknowledgments:

Community Action: Please send Soumya if you like to acknowledge anyone from the 
community, if anyone helped you close bugs or reviewed code etc..We will post 
those acknowledgements on the community page.



Soumya Guptha
Firmware Ecosystem Enabling Manager, SFP/IAGS







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Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-announce] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please see updates

[Soumya Guptha]

Hi Folks,
Since we had Webex issues this morning, I will be rescheduling the community 
meeting morning call (EMEA/NAMO) to next week, Thursday 11th, 9-10am (PST). 
We will continue to keep the evening community call with APAC/NAMO today. I 
will update the WebEx link for the APAC. Please resync your calendar.   

Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Regards,
Soumya

-Original Message-
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Guptha
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 9:06 AM
To: Desimone, Nathaniel L ; 
devel@edk2.groups.io; annou...@edk2.groups.io
Subject: Re: [edk2-announce] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please 
resync your calendar

Bridge for this morning's 9am call - please see below. previous meeting invite 
isn't working.



When it's time, join your Webex meeting here.


Meeting number (access code): 130 576 2005 Meeting password: HntHxcu$733


Join<https://intel.webex.com/intel/j.php?MTID=me3b89db82d76279dc6326afd092fb511>


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-Original Message-
From: Guptha, Soumya K 
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 9:01 AM
To: Guptha, Soumya K ; Desimone, Nathaniel L 
; devel@edk2.groups.io; annou...@edk2.groups.io
Subject: RE: [edk2-announce] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please 
resync your calendar
Importance: High





Folks,

There seems to be an error in the invite. please give me 5 mins, I will send 
you a new invite.



Thanks,

Soumya

On 2/2/21, 4:34 PM, "annou...@edk2.groups.io on behalf of Soumya 
Guptha<mailto:annou...@edk2.groups.io%20on%20behalf%20of%20Soumya%20Guptha>" 
mailto:annou...@edk2.groups.io%20on%20behalf%20of%20soumya.k.gup...@intel.com>>
 wrote:



Dear Community members,



Tianocore community meeting is coming up this week, on 2/4 from 9am-10am 
(PST) and 7.30pm-8.30pm (PST).



Please resync and subscribe to the calendar 
(https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/calendar) so you have the latest series.





Thanks,

Soumya





Soumya Guptha

Tianocore Community & Firmware Ecosystem Enabling Manager,

Intel Corporation













































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Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-announce] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please resync your calendar

[Soumya Guptha]

Bridge for this morning's 9am call - please see below. previous meeting invite 
isn't working.



When it's time, join your Webex meeting here.


Meeting number (access code): 130 576 2005
Meeting password: HntHxcu$733


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Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 9:01 AM
To: Guptha, Soumya K ; Desimone, Nathaniel L 
; devel@edk2.groups.io; annou...@edk2.groups.io
Subject: RE: [edk2-announce] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please 
resync your calendar
Importance: High





Folks,

There seems to be an error in the invite. please give me 5 mins, I will send 
you a new invite.



Thanks,

Soumya

On 2/2/21, 4:34 PM, "annou...@edk2.groups.io on behalf of Soumya 
Guptha<mailto:annou...@edk2.groups.io%20on%20behalf%20of%20Soumya%20Guptha>" 
mailto:annou...@edk2.groups.io%20on%20behalf%20of%20soumya.k.gup...@intel.com>>
 wrote:



Dear Community members,



Tianocore community meeting is coming up this week, on 2/4 from 9am-10am 
(PST) and 7.30pm-8.30pm (PST).



Please resync and subscribe to the calendar 
(https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/calendar) so you have the latest series.





Thanks,

Soumya





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Intel Corporation








































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Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-announce] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please resync your calendar

[Soumya Guptha]

Folks,
There seems to be an error in the invite. please give me 5 mins, I will send 
you a new invite. 

Thanks,
Soumya
On 2/2/21, 4:34 PM, "annou...@edk2.groups.io on behalf of Soumya Guptha" 
 wrote:

Dear Community members,

Tianocore community meeting is coming up this week, on 2/4 from 9am-10am 
(PST) and 7.30pm-8.30pm (PST). 

Please resync and subscribe to the calendar 
(https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/calendar) so you have the latest series.


Thanks,
Soumya


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Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-announce] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please resync your calendar

[Soumya Guptha]

Thanks Nate

-Original Message-
From: Desimone, Nathaniel L  
Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 5:23 PM
To: Guptha, Soumya K ; devel@edk2.groups.io; 
annou...@edk2.groups.io
Subject: Re: [edk2-announce] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please 
resync your calendar

Hi All,

For those on macOS systems, the WebEx client can be downloaded here: 
https://intel.webex.com/client/WBXclient-41.1.4-13/mac/intel/Webex.pkg

Thanks,
Nate

On 2/2/21, 4:34 PM, "annou...@edk2.groups.io on behalf of Soumya Guptha" 
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Dear Community members,

Tianocore community meeting is coming up this week, on 2/4 from 9am-10am 
(PST) and 7.30pm-8.30pm (PST). 

Please resync and subscribe to the calendar 
(https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/calendar) so you have the latest series.


Thanks,
Soumya


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[edk2-devel] Reminder: Community meeting this week - please resync your calendar

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Dear Community members,

Tianocore community meeting is coming up this week, on 2/4 from 9am-10am (PST) 
and 7.30pm-8.30pm (PST). 

Please resync and subscribe to the calendar 
(https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/calendar) so you have the latest series.


Thanks,
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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting this week - using Webex, please resync your calendar

[Soumya Guptha]

Dear Community members,
I have updated our October community meeting with Webex. Please resync your 
calendar so you have the latest meeting invite.
Some of them have experienced issues with blue jeans, hence I am trying Webex 
for our meeting this week.
We have tried Webex for TianoCore Bug triage and Design meetings and it has 
been a better experience.

Please go to: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/calendar and subscribe to 
TianoCore calendar.
If you need to download Webex client or have any questions, please visit: 
http://help.webex.com

Thanks,
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Re: 回复: [edk2-devel] Tianocore community page on who we are - please review

[Soumya Guptha]

Hi Folks,

Thanks for good discussions around this topic.



The purpose of this document "Who we are" is intended to remain high level to 
introduce the community members and their roles. Please note that some of the 
feedback is very detailed that probably fits into the TianoCore development 
process
 document.



Below are my proposed changes to the document based on the emails.

Please review and let me know if you see any issues by Oct 5. Please also 
directly edit the document and let us know what you edited in the document.

Fyi.. my plan is for this page to go live on Oct 9th. This will be a living 
document and we can make changes as we discover more.



I have added a new member "Release Manager", added TianoCore admin role, added 
responsibilities to the Maintainer and Reviewer section.

I agree that Maintainer is the one who approves final patch. I see the argument 
for creating “Approving Reviewer" and "Assistant Reviewer” roles, I am holding 
off this proposal to discuss in the upcoming Stewards meeting and make a call.



Release Manager

Role/Responsibilities:

1)The Release Manager is responsible for driving the quarterly Stable Tags. The 
Release Manager will plan the features, schedule the release date, create the 
Stable Tag with the release notes and announce to the EDK2 community on the 
release milestones: Soft feature freeze, hard feature freeze and the final 
release of the Stable Tag.



Maintainer Responsibility

1)Maintainer or Reviewer is responsible for timely responses on emails 
addressed to them (preferably less than calendar week).



Reviewer Responsibility

1)Reviewer or Maintainer is responsible for timely responses on emails 
addressed to them(preferably less than calendar week).

2) Open – Add Approving Reviewer" and "Assistant Reviewer".



TianoCore Admin:

Role: approve/remove access to TianoCore resources such as GitHub, Bugzilla, 
groupsIO etc..

Responsibilities:

Respond to emails and monitor role changes in the community (adding/removing 
maintainers..)



The request to add the below - Contributor responsibilities. This is too 
detailed. I would add this to the development process document.

CONTRIBUTOR

Responsibilities:

If a contributor proposes an incompatible change, the contributor should 
coordinate with the platform maintainer and make an agreement on who will 
follow up to update the impacted platforms before merging the patch. The 
impacted platforms include everything in Edk2 and Edk2Platforms.



Thanks,

Soumya



-Original Message-
From: Leif Lindholm 
Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2020 3:22 AM
To: Laszlo Ersek 
Cc: gaoliming ; devel@edk2.groups.io; Yao, Jiewen 
; Guptha, Soumya K ; 
annou...@edk2.groups.io; Kinney, Michael D ; 
'Andrew Fish' 
Subject: Re: 回复: [edk2-devel] Tianocore community page on who we are - please 
review



On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 10:44:10 +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:

> On 09/30/20 12:13, Leif Lindholm wrote:

> > Agreed.

> >

> > Reviever or Maintainer can approve a patch. Any Maintainer can push

> > a patch that has been approved.

>

> I disagree.

>

> Assume Ard and myself are away and Jordan fails to report back in a

> week or so, but Rebecca or Peter have reviewed a patch on the list for

> OvmfPkg/Bhyve.

>

> In that case, the patch should *NOT* be merged by (for example) you,

> just because you have push rights. The community will have to wait

> until Ard, Jordan, or myself return and provide an ACK.

>

> If the maintainers are *consistently* irresponsive, then new

> maintainers need to be added, possibly with a larger community

> discussion. But if it's just a week (especially if we discussed our

> absence in advance), then maintainer absence is completely sufficient

> and justified for holding back patches, even if designated reviewers

> are OK with those patches.

>

> I've been *really* disliking that, for example, the chief MdeModulePkg

> reviewers don't regularly ACK patches that have been reviewed by

> designated reviewers. If those reviewers are considered authoritative

> enough to fully approve patches -- and most of them they have push

> access already, anyway --, then we should rework Maintainers.txt so

> that Maintainer roles be handed out with a finer granularity. If you will:

> promote those reviewers to Maintainers, on their respective turfs.

>

> > This can happen either:

> > - when the designated Maintainer for that patch is

> >   unavailable/unresponsive

> > - if the patch submitter is also a Maintainer of some other part of

> >   the repo.

> >

> > No one can approve their own patches.

> >

> > The act of adding a Reviewer means delegating the approval work to

> > them.

>

> I don't see it like that; I think Maintainers should have the last

> word on every patch going in. And yes, this *requires* maintainers to

> be responsive.

>

> ... Hm. Perhaps this is a sign that we really 

[edk2-devel] Please resync your calendar - next community meeting on Oct 8th

[Soumya Guptha]

Dear Community members,
Our next community meeting is on the 8th of October from 9am-10am (PST) and 
7.30pm-8.30pm (PST).
Please resync and subscribe to the calendar so you have the meeting.
https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/calendar


Thanks,
Soumya

Soumya Guptha
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[Soumya Guptha]

; 7.Follow the EDK II development
> <https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Developm
> ent-Pr
> ocess> process.
> 
>  
> 
> IMHO, the 1~4 need technical expertise, while 5~7 need process expertise.
> 
> Logically, the can be two separated roles and be done by two different 
> persons.
> 
> A people who has strong technical expertise might NOT be the best 
> person to do the integration, and vice versa. I hope we can let right 
> person do right thing in right way.
> 
> For example, to avoid mistake during check in, 5~7 can be done by a 
> role named “integrator”.
> 
>  
> 
> My dream is that check-in process is just one click button. But it 
> seems we are still far from it…
> 
>  
> 
> My two cents.
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Yao Jiewen
> 
>  
> 
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io> 
> mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io> > On Behalf Of 
> Yao, Jiewen
> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2020 1:09 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io> ; Guptha, 
> Soumya K mailto:soumya.k.gup...@intel.com> 
> >; annou...@edk2.groups.io <mailto:annou...@edk2.groups.io>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] Tianocore community page on who we are - 
> please review
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks Soumya. I think this is a good start.
> 
>  
> 
> Recently we are discussing the maintainer’s work in EDKII mailing 
> list, with title “more development process failure”.
> 
>  
> 
> I feel the process mentioned in
> https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Developme
> nt-Pro cess is not clear enough to follow, especially for the 
> maintainer who is not full time working on EDKII.
> 
>  
> 
> I wish we can have this opportunity to revisit the “Follow the EDK II 
> development 
> <https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Developm
> ent-Pr
> ocess> process” and make “the process” simpler and clearer.
> 
>  
> 
> Then all maintainers can sign to follow one rule. The rule we define 
> and the rule we agree with.
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Yao Jiewen
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io> 
> mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io> > On Behalf Of 
> Soumya Guptha
> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2020 6:35 AM
> To: annou...@edk2.groups.io <mailto:annou...@edk2.groups.io> ; 
> devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io>
> Subject: [edk2-devel] Tianocore community page on who we are - please 
> review
> 
>  
> 
> Dear Community members,
> 
>  
> 
> I have drafted a document “who we are”, explaining Tianocore community 
> structure, members of the community, their role and the current 
> development process. I have drafted this document with the help of the 
> Tianocore Stewards.
> 
> We view this as a living document, as our development processes 
> evolve, I will keep this document updated.
> 
>  
> 
> Please review the draft version of the document (link below) and 
> provide your feedback. Please send it to me, no need to reply all.
> 
> I appreciate your input by Friday, Oct 2. After this, I plan on make 
> it live on our TianoCore wiki site.
> 
>  
> 
> Link: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Who-we-are
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Soumya
> 
>  
> 
> Soumya Guptha
> TianoCore Community Manager
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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[edk2-devel] Tianocore community page on who we are - please review

[Soumya Guptha]

Dear Community members,



I have drafted a document "who we are", explaining Tianocore community 
structure, members of the community, their role and the current development 
process. I have drafted this document with the help of the Tianocore Stewards.

We view this as a living document, as our development processes evolve, I will 
keep this document updated.



Please review the draft version of the document (link below) and provide your 
feedback. Please send it to me, no need to reply all.

I appreciate your input by Friday, Oct 2. After this, I plan on make it live on 
our TianoCore wiki site.



Link: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Who-we-are

Thanks,
Soumya

Soumya Guptha
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[edk2-devel] Cancelling September Community meeting

[Soumya Guptha]

Dear Community members,
I plan on cancelling the September 3rd community meeting due to the holiday 
week (labor day) in US and no updates from the Stewards call since this week's 
Stewards meeting has also been cancelled.

Let's resume during October. Please send me any topics that you like to discuss 
during next community meeting.

Thanks,
Soumya


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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - August

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes

August 6, 2020



Events

UEFI Plugfest:

Virtual sessions via bright talk are being offered during spring.

Trending towards virtual webinars for October plugfest.

Visit UEFI website, events page<https://uefi.org/node/4051> to learn more.



Stable Tag Updates
edk2-stable202008 tag initial planning is added here - 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning

Soft Feature Freeze on Aug 14; Hard Feature Freeze on Aug 21.

Features:

  1.  BootGuard TOCTOU vulnerability (CVE-2019-11098)
  2.  Ensure NV Variable Confidentiality and Integrity for Platforms Supporting 
RPMC.
 *   Open: Verify with Liming if this feature is still in plan for August 
stable tag
  3.  Provide a pcd to disable SHA1 support
  4.  ShellPkg: add HttpDynamicCommand


Stewards Meeting download (Mike Kinney)

  1.  License usage - few files in the EDK2 repository are not using the 
default license (BSD 2 clause + patent). Stewards are looking into those files 
that are not using the default license and working on explicitly calling them 
out in the readme file so that the downstream consumers are aware of those 
files and helping them to consume those files appropriately.
  2.  Covered community opens on previously discussed topics:

 *   GitHub Pull Request based Code Review Process: Status: Mike plans to 
update RFC with the feedback. Community action: Community feedback is needed 
before the service can go live. Mike will send the revised RFC in the next week 
or two for the vote on these options - 1) Yes, I will use the GitHub pull 
request, 2) No, I won't use it, 3) It doesn't make any difference.
 *   Line ending conversion - Community Request: we don't have much 
resources. We have a set of tasks (including setting up of fork of EDK2, 
converting CRLF to LF etc..) everyone in the downstream can identify issues. We 
need volunteers to perform the task. Send an email to Mike Kinney 

 *   Open: Feedback from the community regarding the Git commit message RFC 
posted to the rfc mailing list.

*  Action: Felix to converse in the mail list, there is already an ongoing 
discussion.

 *   Open from Felix: Code base fragmentation.

*   I noticed that some of the generic features are getting committed 
to a platform specific packages, which leads to multiple implementations of the 
same functionality, which, in turn, makes edk2 codebase less coherent. We, as a 
community, should think about ways to reduce that. A couple of examples: 
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/tree/master/Features/Intel, 
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/tree/master/ArmPlatformPkg/Drivers/NorFlashDxe

*   Discussion around adding new features / components and where should 
it land in the repo.

*   Discussed review process for Bugzilla. Bugzilla has email 
conversations on code reviews. Owner of the bug needs to summarize. Lack of 
community engagement in discussing the feature entered in Bugzilla.

*   Action: how to use Bugzilla for TianoCore? Liming to start with a 
wiki page to train the community.


Status on Community Opens from June:

  *   Package movement for RISC-V - Mike Kinney has put up package rules/specs 
etc.. Action from stewards to provide update within next week. Status: Work in 
progress.
  *   New RFC - base tools as a Python PIP module (update from Mike). Community 
Action: Reminder, RFC is on the mailing list, please review the RFC. Status: 
repository has been created (Mike). Expect some communication (in the upcoming 
weeks) around how to change to set up the developer environment. Community to 
evaluate the use of base tools.



Acknowledgments:
Community Action: Please send Soumya if you like to acknowledge anyone from the 
community, if anyone helped you close bugs or reviewed code etc..Soumya will 
post those acknowledgements on the community page.


Regards,
Soumya
Soumya Guptha
Open Source Firmware Program Manager
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[edk2-devel] Topics for this week's Community meeting

[Soumya Guptha]

Dear Community Members,
Our monthly community meeting is coming up on Thursday (Aug 6) of this week.
We will cover our standard topics - download from Stewards call, Stable tag 
updates, ARs/updates if any etc..
If you have any topics that you like to bring in, please let me know and I can 
add you to the agenda.

Thanks,
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[edk2-devel] Cancelling tomorrow's community meeting

[Soumya Guptha]

Dear Community members,
I plan on cancelling tomorrow's community meeting and reschedule to later (2-3 
weeks from now). I don't have any topics to discuss for tomorrow.
Stewards meeting didn't have much download from yesterday, there will be 
another Stewards call after 2 weeks and I expect to have a download for our 
next call.
If there are any urgent topics to discuss, please let me know and I will 
arrange for a call.

Please do send me your list of topics that I can add to the next community 
meeting.

Thanks,
Soumya

From: devel@edk2.groups.io  On Behalf Of Soumya Guptha
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2020 1:27 PM
To: annou...@edk2.groups.io; devel@edk2.groups.io
Subject: [edk2-devel] July Community Meeting Rescheduled to July 9th
Importance: High

Dear Community Members,
I have rescheduled the July TianoCore community meeting from July 2nd to July 
9th.
I am pushing it to align with the week of the Stewards meeting (scheduled for 
July 7th), so that we have a download from the stewards.
Also, I wanted to accommodate the July 4th holiday week in US for those that 
are taking some time off.

Please note this time change and resync your calendars. You can click the link 
below to directly access the calendar.
https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/calendar?calstart=2020-07-02

I look forward to talking to you all in the July call.

Thanks,
Soumya

Soumya Guptha
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[edk2-devel] July Community Meeting Rescheduled to July 9th

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Dear Community Members,
I have rescheduled the July TianoCore community meeting from July 2nd to July 
9th.
I am pushing it to align with the week of the Stewards meeting (scheduled for 
July 7th), so that we have a download from the stewards.
Also, I wanted to accommodate the July 4th holiday week in US for those that 
are taking some time off.

Please note this time change and resync your calendars. You can click the link 
below to directly access the calendar.
https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/calendar?calstart=2020-07-02

I look forward to talking to you all in the July call.

Thanks,
Soumya

Soumya Guptha
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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - June

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes

June 4, 2020





Events

Spring UEFI virtual plugfest webinars are happening now. Visit UEFI website, 
events page<https://uefi.org/node/4051> to register.



Stable Tag Updates

  1.  Released edk2-stable202005. List of features here - 
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases/tag/edk2-stable202005
  2.  edk2-stable202008 tag initial planning is added here - 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning

New added one for stable 202005:

  *   Enable Host Unit Tests for Linux in Core 
CI<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2513>
  *   Add Open CI build test for Ovmf and 
Emulator<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2570>
  *   Add UEFI 2.8/2.8a definition in 
MdePkg<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2768>
  *   Add PI1.7/PI1.7a definition into 
MdePkg<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2769>
The deferred ones from stable tag 202005 to 202008:

  *   BootGuard TOCTOU vulnerability 
(CVE-2019-11098)<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614>
  *   Ensure NV Variable Confidentiality and Integrity for Platforms Supporting 
RPMC<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2594>
  *   Provide a pcd to disable SHA1 
support<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682>



Stewards Meeting download (Mike Kinney)

  *   EDK2 Documents: some of them need to be updated. Expect some change 
requests.

  *   line endings stored in Gitrepo. Status: Being scoped in June.

  *   Code Review Process: using GitHub based code review as the new code 
review method to replace with the email-based code review process. Mike Kinney 
has developed a prototype of GitHub code review; Mike has been collecting 
feedback with a small set of community members. RFCs were sent out. Mike is 
collecting all feedback (converting to WIKI page). Community Discussion -
Discussion around GitHub code review process. Community meeting attendees 
didn't have any objections to move forward.

Reminder to the Community: Bugzilla - we have a growth in the bugs submitted. 
We request the community members to check the state of your bugs and help close 
the bugs

Community Opens/Actions from June:

GitBooks Status - Migration to new GitBooks is complete but some features are 
missing (it will not generate PDFs, ebooks etc.). We are no longer using legacy 
GitBooks.

Question from Daniel: Package movement for RISC-V - Mike Kinney has put up 
package rules/specs etc.. Action from stewards to provide update within next 
week.

New RFC - base tools as a Python PIP module (update from Mike). Community 
Action: Reminder, RFC is on the mailing list, please review the RFC

July Community Meeting - Moving from July 2nd to July 9th, due to holidays and 
to allow stewards meeting to precede community meeting.

Past Community Opens - Status:

  1.  Request to send an agenda with the issues that's being planned to be 
discussed in Bug scrub meetings. Specifically invite the bug owners to be 
invited. Liming is planning to send out the agenda ahead of time. [Status] 
Done. Liming has sent the bug list before the meeting.
  2.  Rebecca - BHYVE support (need this by May). Rebecca to open a Bugzilla 
request. Community will evaluate. - Status: Mike kinney has made progress. Fold 
this inside OVMF package.  CSM build . Mike Kinney, Rebecca and Lazlo to 
discuss further on where the BHYVE goes inside the EDK2 package. Action: 
Rebecca to email Mike Kinney, Lazlo and the mailing list. [Status] Done
  3.  Sean requested a few features (variable policy, TLS 1.3 etc.) for stable 
tag Q2 release. Sean will follow up with Liming on those features to get them 
added to Q2 stable tag. Soumya to follow up with liming on the features 
requested by Sean listed 
here<https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/55621?p=,,,20,0,0,0::Created,,community+meeting,20,2,0,71766249>.
 Action: Sean to send the current status for his requests and discuss in the 
mailing list.  Liming needs to collect the status on those features and see if 
those features can be added to q2 or q3 stable tag. [Status] After Q2 stable 
tag is created, Liming will work on Q3 stable tag.
  4.  Discussion around Bugzilla - Liming to explore adding more detailed 
information on Bugzilla wiki page. [Status] Liming is working on it. Plan is to 
send detailed information during Q2.





Acknowledgments:
Community Action: Please send Soumya if you like to acknowledge anyone from the 
community, if anyone helped you close bugs or reviewed code etc..Soumya will 
post those acknowledgements on the community page.

Regards,
Soumya
Soumya Guptha
Open Source Firmware Program Manager
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[edk2-devel] Please re-sync your calendar to get meeting updates

[Soumya Guptha]

Dear community members,
The groups.io calendar 
(https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/calendar?calstart=2020-06-04) has shown some 
issues in displaying the correct meeting time. When I sync to my outlook, it is 
off by an hour.
I figured that this is a reported bug in group.io. I worked around it and 
adjusted the calendar so that it accurately displays the time.

Please resync your calendar by subscribing to the calendar  
(https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/ics/7722204/1063275740/feed.ics), so that it 
will show the correct meeting time.

Please note that there is no change to our community meetings, they are 
scheduled on the first Thursday of every month from 9am-10am (PST) and 
7.30pm-8.30pm (PST).

Thanks,
Soumya

Soumya Guptha
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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - May

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes

May 7, 2020





Events (Soumya Guptha):

Spring UEFI Plugfest has been postponed. UEFI virtual Plugfest webinars are 
happening now. Visit UEFI website, events page<https://uefi.org/node/4051> for 
more information.



Stable Tag Updates (Liming Gao / Soumya Guptha)

edk2-stable202005 tag planning will enter into soft feature freeze next Friday.

https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning



Below are the current feature lists for edk2 stable202005.

*   BootGuard TOCTOU vulnerability 
(CVE-2019-11098)<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614>  Status: 
may defer
*   RegularExpressionDxe: Use submodule way to access third party 
Oniguruma<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2073> Status: Done
*   BrotliCustomDecompressLib: Use submodule way to access third party 
brotli<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2559> Status: Done
*   BaseTools: Use submodule way to access third party 
brotli<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2558> Status: Done
*   RISC-V architecture on 
EDK2<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2672> Status: Done
*   Disabling safe string constraint 
assertions<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2054> Status: may 
defer
*   ArmVirtPkg Implement support for TPM2 measured 
boot<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2560> Status: Done
*   OVMF Implement support for Linux v5.7+ initrd and mixed mode 
loading<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2564> Status: Done
*   OVMF Use loadimage/startimage for loading the kernel passed via the 
QEMU command line<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2566> Status: 
Done
*   OVMF Support booting from Fusion-MPT SCSI 
controllers<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2390> Status: Done
*   OVMF Support booting from VMware PVSCSI 
controllers<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2567> Status: Done
*   OVMF RFE: VCPU hotplug with 
SMM<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1512> Status: Done
*   OVMF PEI phase variable driver / MemoryTypeInfo 
tracking<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386> Status: Done
*   ArmVirtPkg, OvmfPkg: Pass parameter from QEMU to control PXE IPv4/v6 
boot<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2681> Status: Done
*   Ensure NV Variable Confidentiality and Integrity for Platforms 
Supporting RPMC<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2594> Status: 
partially done
*   FmpDxe: Implement Fmp Capsule Dependency feature in 
library<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2696> Status: patch pass 
review
*   Remove deprecate APIs in 
BaseCryptLib<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1898> Status: patch 
under review
*   Provide a pcd to disable SHA1 
support<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682> Status: may defer
*   IntelFsp2Pkg: Support Multi-Phase silicon initialization and debug 
handlers<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2698> Status: patch 
under review

Community Discussion: (Felix) UEFI changes/patches are submitted. Felix plans 
to submit the bug to Bugzilla.



Stewards Meeting download (Mike Kinney)

*   stable tag

   *On track.

*   line endings - Converting git-repo to line endings. Pushed to Q3 stable 
tag
*   edk2-platform2 repo stable-tag

   *Make this a Q3 request
   *Some requests from Intel teams for a stable tag on edk2-platforms repo

*   Stewards work on clear definitions of what goes into edk2 and 
edk2-platforms and add to GitHub, readmes, and Wikis.

** edk2

*** EmulatorPkg

*** Virtual Platforms

*** QEMU

** edk2-platforms

*** physical hardware platforms

*   Bugzilla - number of open issues are increasing. We have increased the 
frequency and the duration of the meeting to evaluate/address old bugs from the 
database.

*   Code Review Process: using GitHub based code review as the new code 
review method to replace with the email-based code review process. Mike Kinney 
has developed a prototype of GitHub code review; Mike has been collecting 
feedback with a small set of community members. Expect RFCs sometime this week, 
outlining the proposed new code review process.



Community Discussion -

1.  There was a discussion around MDE module pkg to smaller pkgs. any 
updates on this? we will address later but for now stewards recommending to add 
new features to new packages rather than adding to MDE module pkg.
2.  Some people are moving from GitHub to Gitlab and other GITs due to 
better usability.

Community Action: Bugzilla - we have a growth in the bugs submitted. We request 
the community members to check the state of your bugs and help close the bugs

Community Opens from May:

1.  Re

[edk2-devel] Reminder: Tomorrow's TianoCore Community Meeting at 9am and 7.30pm (PST)

[Soumya Guptha]

Dear Community Members,
Please note the time for tomorrow's community meeting - 9-10am (PST) and 
7.30-8.30pm (PST).

You can view the calendar here - 
https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/viewevent?repeatid=23293=700773=2020-04-16

I hope to see you all tomorrow.

Regards,
Soumya

Soumya Guptha
Open Source Program Manager, SFP/IAGS
Office: 503.712.8038
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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - April

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes

April 2, 2020





Events (Soumya Guptha):

Spring 2020 UEFI PLUGFEST<https://uefi.org/Spring2020Plugfest> has been 
cancelled due to the Coronavirus. More details are published here - 
https://uefi.org/events/upcoming

We are exploring to do a virtual meeting for the Tianocore Community members to 
discuss on TianoCore topics.

Please send if you have any topics to contribute or hear to Soumya Guptha 
(soumya.k.gup...@intel.com<mailto:soumya.k.gup...@intel.com>) by April 17th.

Soumya will communicate further on virtual meeting details.



Stable Tag Updates (Soumya Guptha/Liming Gao):

1.  Edk2 stable tag 202005 feature development in progress. Features 
are listed in: 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning

Community Action: Please send if any feature requests that needs to be added to 
the next stable tag release.


Features Completed:

  *   ArmVirtPkg Implement support for TPM2 measured 
boot<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2560>
  *   OVMF Implement support for Linux v5.7+ initrd and mixed mode 
loading<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2564>
  *   OVMF Use loadimage/startimage for loading the kernel passed via the QEMU 
command line<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2566>
  *   OVMF Support booting from Fusion-MPT SCSI 
controllers<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2390>
  *   OVMF Support booting from VMware PVSCSI 
controllers<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2567>
  *   OVMF RFE: VCPU hotplug with 
SMM<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1512>
Features In Progress:

  *   RegularExpressionDxe: Use submodule way to access third party 
Oniguruma<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2073>
  *   BrotliCustomDecompressLib: Use submodule way to access third party 
brotli<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2559>
  *   BaseTools: Use submodule way to access third party 
brotli<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2558>
  *   Add support RISC-V arch 
platforms<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2532>
  *   Ensure NV Variable Confidentiality and Integrity for Platforms Supporting 
RPMC<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2594>

Stewards Meeting download (Mike Kinney)

1)  Issues with Mergify service. Pass CI and Mergify service. Waiting 
the result. See this issue, and ask Admin to refresh operation. Continue to 
monitor open CI.

2)  Code First Process (Leif started in the mailing list and got some 
feedback from the community) . Need approval from the community, then can 
follow the process. Use Edk2 staging branch for code development, validation, 
and spec ECR. Document this process in wiki page for the developer reference.

3)  Evaluation of code review process moving to github. Github web UI 
for code review, and email archive for community. Agreement to the stable and 
reliable service of Github Pull service. RFC will include the test repo for 
user evaluation.

4)  Line ending conversion. Dos line ending --> Linux line ending. 
Local setting enables auto conversion based on Windows OS. Linux line ending is 
the standard git defaulting.





AR review from March:

1.  Sean requested a few features (variable policy, TLS 1.3 etc.) for 
stable tag Q2 release. Sean will follow up with Liming on those features to get 
them added to Q2 stable tag.

 *   (Soumya) Follow up with liming on the features requested by Sean 
listed 
here<https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/55621?p=,,,20,0,0,0::Created,,community+meeting,20,2,0,71766249>

2.  Discussion around Bugzilla - Liming to explore adding more detailed 
information on bugzilla wiki page

3.  Governance and the process: Intel (Mike Kinney) has been evaluating 
the possibility of using git hub for the code review process. Expect RFCs in 
the month of early April.



Community Opens:

  1.  Rebecca - BHYVE support (need this by May). Rebecca to open a Bugzilla 
request. Community will evaluate.
  2.  Mike Kinney - we are using legacy GitBooks process/format. GitBooks will 
discontinue by end of April. We need to migrate our 
documents<https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Draft-Specification>
  from legacy service to GitBooks current one. Mike Kinney will update the 
community on the migration status in the upcoming week. Mike will evaluate the 
migration tools for this migration and update the process.
  3.  We will be switching to zoom for all community meetings, please check the 
latest calendar on tianocore.



Acknowledgments:







Regards,

Soumya


Soumya Guptha
Open Source Program Manager, SFP/IAGS




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Re: [edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting tonight - Please note the time change reflecting daylight savings..

[Soumya Guptha]

Sorry, Correction.
The meeting is scheduled from 7.30pm-8.30pm (PST). Please note the time.
_
From: Guptha, Soumya K
Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2020 4:23 PM
To: 'annou...@edk2.groups.io' ; devel@edk2.groups.io
Subject: TianoCore Community Meeting tonight - Please note the time change 
reflecting daylight savings..


Dear Community Members,
Please note the time change on tonight's TianoCore Community meeting, 
reflecting the US daylight savings time change as we moved clocks an hour 
earlier during March.

The community meeting will start from 7.30pm-8.30pm (PST).
You can view the calendar here - 
https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/viewevent?repeatid=23293=700773=2020-04-16
Or use the invite below.

Thanks,
Soumya

-Original Appointment-
From: Gao, Liming
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:05 PM
To: Gao, Liming; Guptha, Soumya K
Cc: EDKII Package Maintainers
Subject: TianoCore Community Meeting - APAC/NAMO
When: Friday, April 3, 2020 10:30 AM-11:30 AM (UTC+08:00) Beijing, Chongqing, 
Hong Kong, Urumqi.
Where: https://bluejeans.com/889357567?src=join_info


All edk2 package maintainers:
  This is the monthly open source meeting. This one is on APAC time zone. 
Another one is on US time zone. Soumya chairs them both. If you want to know 
the latest information on open source edk2 project and community, you can join 
this meeting.

Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/889357567?src=join_info

Meeting ID
889 357 567

Want to dial in from a phone?

Dial one of the following numbers:
+1.408.740.7256 (US (San Jose))
+1.408.317.9253 (US (Primary, San Jose))
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Enter the meeting ID and passcode followed by #




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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting tonight - Please note the time change reflecting daylight savings..

[Soumya Guptha]

Dear Community Members,
Please note the time change on tonight's TianoCore Community meeting, 
reflecting the US daylight savings time change as we moved clocks an hour 
earlier during March.

The community meeting will start from 6.30pm-7.30pm (PST).
You can view the calendar here - 
https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/viewevent?repeatid=23293=700773=2020-04-16
Or use the invite below.

Thanks,
Soumya

-Original Appointment-
From: Gao, Liming
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:05 PM
To: Gao, Liming; Guptha, Soumya K
Cc: EDKII Package Maintainers
Subject: TianoCore Community Meeting - APAC/NAMO
When: Friday, April 3, 2020 10:30 AM-11:30 AM (UTC+08:00) Beijing, Chongqing, 
Hong Kong, Urumqi.
Where: https://bluejeans.com/889357567?src=join_info


All edk2 package maintainers:
  This is the monthly open source meeting. This one is on APAC time zone. 
Another one is on US time zone. Soumya chairs them both. If you want to know 
the latest information on open source edk2 project and community, you can join 
this meeting.

Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/889357567?src=join_info

Meeting ID
889 357 567

Want to dial in from a phone?

Dial one of the following numbers:
+1.408.740.7256 (US (San Jose))
+1.408.317.9253 (US (Primary, San Jose))
(see all numbers - https://www.bluejeans.com/numbers)

Enter the meeting ID and passcode followed by #




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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - March

[Soumya Guptha]

TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes
March 5, 2020

Stable Tag Updates:

1.   Edk2 stable tag 202002 has been released: 
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases/tag/edk2-stable202002

2.   Edk2 stable tag 202005 feature planning has started.

*   Features are listed in: 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning
Community Action: Please send if any feature requests that needs to be added to 
the upcoming stable tag release.
Opens:

1.  Sean requested a few features (variable policy, TLS 1.3 etc.) for 
stable tag Q2 release. Sean will follow up with Liming on those features to get 
them added to Q2 stable tag.


2.  Kevin - Need a fix in EDK2. Insyde engineers don't know where to start. 
Documentation is stale or assumes that you understand the open source project.

*   Action: We discussed this issue. Kevin to follow the link  - 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Development-Process
 , this should provide some guidance to the engineers on how to make a fix in 
EDK2.


3.  Discussion around Bugzilla - Liming to explore adding more detailed 
information on bugzilla wiki page


TianoCore Bug Triage - APAC / NAMO Meeting time:

*   Scheduled currently from 9:00 ~ 9:30 AM PRC time. Even after the US 
daylight saving during March, plan is to keep this meeting from 9:00~9:30AM PRC 
time. This time is working well and close to TianoCore Design Meeting, 
developers can plan their time and attend these two meetings together.

Community consensus received on the timeslot.

Events:
SPRING 2020 UEFI PLUGFEST<https://uefi.org/Spring2020Plugfest> has been 
postponed due to the Coronavirus situation. More details are published here - 
https://uefi.org/events/upcoming

Community issues that were brought up last month on the governance and the 
process:

1.   RFC: The RFC process seems to get only minimal comments and a lot gets 
lost in the noise of the lists.  There isn't a good "final" state where all 
approved RFCs can be seen.  The process is entirely driven by the submitter and 
thus there is little consistency.   I wanted to highlight another project and 
how they handle this.  https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs As a casual observer 
it is very easy to review their RFCs (in flight and approved/rejected) as well 
as understand how to create and submit one if so desired.  The tooling is just 
git/github so it is familiar to the target audience and has a strong ability to 
track progress, show history, and be backed up like any code project.  They 
also leverage github issue tracker for pre rfc conversation and discussions.

2.   Bugs/Features/Releases:  First the bug triage and scrub is not very 
well attended.  I know it is hard to get a ww audience together on a call but i 
think part of the goal was to offer a public process and a place to 
learn/discuss.  Is there a better way that still meets those goals?  Secondly, 
the number of bugs that get discussed is pretty small and the list of open 
bugzillas are grower faster than the triage effort.  Third, the results are 
pretty minimal.  Usually a change in owner and a very short comment asking the 
owner to look at it is the result of the triage.  There is sometimes good 
conversation (assuming knowledgeable parties are in attendance) but this is 
impractical to capture into the bugzilla while still keeping forward progress. 
Finally, as a submitter of a lot of open/unconfirmed bugs it is not very easy 
to understand the owners priorities and when the bug will be fixed and merged 
to master/stable tag. I am happy to contribute effort to making a new process 
but want to understand if others are frustrated by this as well.

Intel Response: We are evaluating the possibility of using git hub for the code 
review process. Expect RFCs in the month of March.

Regards,
Soumya

Soumya Guptha
Open Source Program Manager, Intel Corporation


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Re: [edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - Feb 6

[Soumya Guptha]

Hi Sean and Laszlo,
Great points. We should discuss with the community around the process and the 
governance. 
I will add these to our upcoming community meeting to brainstorm. 


Thanks,
Soumya


-Original Message-
From: Laszlo Ersek  
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2020 2:14 PM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io; sean.bro...@microsoft.com; Guptha, Soumya K 

Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - Feb 6

On 02/14/20 19:25, Sean via Groups.Io wrote:
> Soumya,
> I would like to add three things to community discussions especially around 
> governance and process.
> 
> 1. RFC: The RFC process seems to get only minimal comments and a lot gets 
> lost in the noise of the lists.  There isn't a good "final" state where all 
> approved RFCs can be seen.  The process is entirely driven by the submitter 
> and thus there is little consistency.   I wanted to highlight another project 
> and how they handle this. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs ( 
> https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs ) As a casual observer it is very easy to 
> review their RFCs (in flight and approved/rejected) as well as understand how 
> to create and submit one if so desired.  The tooling is just git/github so it 
> is familiar to the target audience and has a strong ability to track 
> progress, show history, and be backed up like any code project.  They also 
> leverage github issue tracker for pre rfc conversation and discussions.

I agree that RFCs get sorely little attention from the community.

... From my personal perspective, it's not because the RFCs are not visible -- 
I simply don't have time to even *understand* most RFCs for their merits. For 
example, I checked out Microsoft's VariablePolicy slides. The design seemed 
systematic and I appreciated that, it's just that I couldn't bring myself to 
make half-cooked comments (regardless of forum), because those wouldn't do 
justice to the topic, and I simply couldn't commit to a deeper involvement.

I can imagine that others appear to ignore several RFCs due to similar
(capacity) reasons.

> 2. Bugs/Features/Releases:  First the bug triage and scrub is not very 
> well attended.  I know it is hard to get a ww audience together on a 
> call

Personal angle again:
- synchronous communication hampers my throughput
- got quickly demotivated by perceiving significantly less effort from others

Bug triage is a thankless job.

> but i think part of the goal was to offer a public process and a place to 
> learn/discuss.  Is there a better way that still meets those goals?  
> Secondly, the number of bugs that get discussed is pretty small and the list 
> of open bugzillas are grower faster than the triage effort.  Third, the 
> results are pretty minimal.  Usually a change in owner and a very short 
> comment asking the owner to look at it is the result of the triage.  There is 
> sometimes good conversation (assuming knowledgeable parties are in 
> attendance) but this is impractical to capture into the bugzilla while still 
> keeping forward progress.

Can you please clarify this suggested conflict (between capturing good 
technical discussion in the BZ tickets, and "forward progress")?

I think Bugzilla tickets are the best place to capture the focused analysis of 
a bug. I write a *lot* of text in Red Hat bugzillas (most of them are public, 
luckily!) -- I want to document my own "adventure" with the issue, even if most 
paths prove dead-ends in the end. How does that conflict with "forward 
progress"?

>   Finally, as an submitter of a lot of open/unconfirmed bugs it is not very 
>easy to understand the owners priorities and when the bug will be fixed and 
>merged to master/stable tag.

Agreed 100%. Lack of visibility into planning / resource allocation is the 
worst. I sometimes have no choice but to "shed load" (review requests etc). 
What I find important is to be honest about such cases, and state "sorry, 
you've been dropped off my queue" reasonably quickly.
Leaving others hanging is one of the *worst* faces of open / distributed 
development.

> I am happy to contribute effort to making a new process but want to 
> understand if others are frustrated by this as well.

Oh yes.

> 
> 3. Discussions: I wanted to know if anyone has experience with user forums 
> like https://www.discourse.org/.  Again the rust community uses this and it 
> is a pretty nice interface for async communication that doesn't involve mail 
> server and client configuration challenges, corporate policies, and the noise 
> of email.

(You know my opinion on email ;))

Thanks
Laszlo


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[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - Feb 6

[Soumya Guptha]

Community Meeting Minutes: 2-6-20

Agenda:
Thanks to Stephano Cetola for an excellent job driving TianoCore community. 
Stephano has transitioned to a new role outside Intel.
Soumya Guptha from Intel is the new Community Manager and will drive the 
TianoCore Community activities.


  1.  FOSDEM Conference
 *   Presentations from our community members:

   i.  Capsule 
update by Brian Richardson

 ii.  Code 
first concept by Leif

   iii.  35-40 
attendees and they were well received

 *   We will share more details on the presentations during the next 
community meeting.



  1.  Code first RFC stewards meeting update - Mike Kinney
 *   Leif has shared on the mailing list
 *   We will do EDKII staging repository, inside the staging branch in that 
repository. Soumya add the link
 *   ECR updates need to be done
 *   We need to fully integrate, validate
 *   Code First RFC

https://edk2.groups.io/g/rfc/message/231

Community Action: Read the RFC and provide feedback if you have any opinions 
from your engineering teams by next week

Discussion from the community (Felix): As soon as spec is ready, post the links 
to the spec in the UEFI forum.
Open: we need to identify the sponsor who can take it to the UEFI forum. 
Suggestion is to review the spec and propose this in the forum



  1.  Q1 Stable tag update - Soumya/Mike covered updates from Liming Gao

  *   Soft freeze for Q2 is scheduled for Feb 14th.
  *   One of the Q1 Stable tag features - boot guard is moving to Q2
  *   All features are listed in 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning.
  *   The first feature BootGuard TOCTOU vulnerability (CVE-2019-11098) 
(https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614). Its solution is changed. 
This feature is moving to Q2 Stable tag.
  *   Other features have been fixed except for New BaseCryptLib instances to 
compile independently from 
callers<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2420>. Its patch is 
under review.




  1.  Ideas for Q2 stable tag from Stewards meeting - Mike Kinney

RISCV

 *   Line ending conversion in Q2 stable tag

  *   Developer github changes may need to occur. Changes around first 2-4wks 
of Q2
  *   Once the fork is available (by end of Feb), we need community to review, 
provide feedback if there is any impact.

 *   Submodule conversion in Q2 stable tag

  *   There a few places in EDK2 repository carrying copies. Plan is to 
modularize and its easier for bug fixes.
  *   Ex: compression and decompression code - we will do a review of this
  *   Targeted during Q2. We will have RFCs and Bugzilla entries.

 *   Wanting RISCV into Q2 stable tag after the above two.

  *   We have several patches around RISCV. Plan is to integrate these as part 
of Q2 release


 *   Code First comments

https://edk2.groups.io/g/rfc/message/232

https://edk2.groups.io/g/rfc/message/235



 *   Community Action:

  *   We are planning for Stable Tag for Q2 - Everyone start thinking and send 
your thoughts to Liming Gao
  *   We need the community to be engaged and suggest features for Q2, Q3, Q4. 
If you like to see any features added, create a Bugzilla entry and work with 
Liming Gao (intel) for adding those features and to discuss further.


 *   Open: In the next design meeting - when we have a new UEFI spec, 
request from the community to ask the community for new features and create a 
long term roadmap. Soumya to pass this feedback to Ray.



  1.  EDKII Open Source Unit test framework - (Mike Kinney)

 *   Collaborative effort from Intel & Microsoft
 *   Background:
Microsoft contributed framework to run tests from UEFI shell
Intel contributed HBFA (Host Based Firmware Analysis)
These two frameworks were combined and simplified to make it simple for 
developers to write unit tests

 *   This is for a low-level API testing
 *   Supports Host Environments for CI agent testing
 *   Supports Target Environments (PEI, DXE, SMM, UEFI Shell)
 *   Focused on testing interfaces, libraries, and modules
 *   Includes cmocka to support mocked interfaces


Community action:

  *   Stewards would like the community to start writing Unit tests for open 
source FW and start adding test results on the releases.
  *   Please look at the details. If you are developing new content or 
maintaining existing content, please consolidate and write the unit tests in 
this framework, so we can standardize the unit test process.



  1.  Upcoming events:

  *   UEFI Plugfest - Most of the stewards and few other Intel folks plan on 
attending (Brian, Soumya, Mike Kinney etc..)



  1.  Opens from the Community Attendees:
 *   Opens from Felix:

  1.  Product releases that other companie

[edk2-devel] TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - Feb 6

[Soumya Guptha]

Community Meeting Minutes: 2-6-20

Agenda:
Thanks to Stephano Cetola for an excellent job driving TianoCore community. 
Stephano has transitioned to a new role outside Intel.
Soumya Guptha from Intel is the new Community Manager and will drive the 
TianoCore Community activities.


  1.  FOSDEM Conference
 *   Presentations from our community members:

   i.  Capsule 
update by Brian Richardson

 ii.  Code 
first concept by Leif

   iii.  35-40 
attendees and they were well received

 *   We will share more details on the presentations during the next 
community meeting.



  1.  Code first RFC stewards meeting update - Mike Kinney
 *   Leif has shared on the mailing list
 *   We will do EDKII staging repository, inside the staging branch in that 
repository.
ECR updates need to be done. We need to fully integrate & validate

 *   Code First RFC

https://edk2.groups.io/g/rfc/message/231

 *   Code First comments

https://edk2.groups.io/g/rfc/message/232

https://edk2.groups.io/g/rfc/message/235

Community Action: Read the RFC and provide feedback if you have any opinions 
from your engineering teams by next week
Discussion from the community (Felix): As soon as spec is ready, post the links 
to the spec in the UEFI forum.
Open: we need to identify the sponsor who can take it to the UEFI forum. 
Suggestion is to review the spec and propose this in the forum



  1.  Q1 Stable tag update - Soumya/Mike covered updates from Liming Gao

  *   Soft freeze for Q2 is scheduled for Feb 14th.
  *   One of the Q1 Stable tag features - boot guard is moving to Q2
  *   All features are listed in 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning.
  *   The first feature BootGuard TOCTOU vulnerability (CVE-2019-11098) 
(https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614). Its solution is changed. 
This feature is moving to Q2 Stable tag.
  *   Other features have been fixed except for New BaseCryptLib instances to 
compile independently from 
callers<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2420>. Its patch is 
under review.



  1.  Ideas for Q2 stable tag from Stewards meeting - Mike Kinney

RISCV

 *   Line ending conversion in Q2 stable tag

  *   Developer github changes may need to occur. Changes around first 2-4wks 
of Q2
  *   Once the fork is available (by end of Feb), we need community to review, 
provide feedback if there is any impact.

 *   Submodule conversion in Q2 stable tag

  *   There a few places in EDK2 repository carrying copies. Plan is to 
modularize and its easier for bug fixes.
  *   Ex: compression and decompression code - we will do a review of this
  *   Targeted during Q2. We will have RFCs and Bugzilla entries.

 *   Wanting RISCV into Q2 stable tag after the above two.

  *   We have several patches around RISCV. Plan is to integrate these as part 
of Q2 release

 *   Community Action:

  *   We are planning for Stable Tag for Q2 - Everyone start thinking and send 
your thoughts to Liming Gao
  *   We need the community to be engaged and suggest features for Q2, Q3, Q4. 
If you like to see any features added, create a Bugzilla entry and work with 
Liming Gao (intel) for adding those features and to discuss further.

 *   Open: In the next design meeting - when we have a new UEFI spec, 
request from the community to ask the community for new features and create a 
long-term roadmap. Soumya to pass this feedback to Ray.



  1.  EDKII Open Source Unit test framework - Mike Kinney

 *   Collaborative effort from Intel & Microsoft
 *   Background:
Microsoft contributed framework to run tests from UEFI shell
Intel contributed HBFA (Host Based Firmware Analysis)
These two frameworks were combined and simplified to make it simple for 
developers to write unit tests

 *   This is for a low-level API testing
 *   Supports Host Environments for CI agent testing
 *   Supports Target Environments (PEI, DXE, SMM, UEFI Shell)
 *   Focused on testing interfaces, libraries, and modules
 *   Includes cmocka to support mocked interfaces

Community action:

  *   Stewards would like the community to start writing Unit tests for open 
source FW and start adding test results on the releases.
  *   Please look at the details. If you are developing new content or 
maintaining existing content, please consolidate and write the unit tests in 
this framework, so we can standardize the unit test process.



  1.  Upcoming events:

  *   UEFI Plugfest - Most of the stewards and few other Intel folks plan on 
attending (Brian, Soumya, Mike Kinney etc..)



  1.  Opens from the Community Attendees:
 *   Opens from Felix:

  1.  Product releases that other companies have may not be aligned with stable 
tags