Re: [PATCH 0/7] Various: Remove EDK2 use of IntelFrameworkModulePkg legacy libs

[Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 12:53:45PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 12/02/16 12:27, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:38:42AM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote:
> >> For the future, I'd recommend adding Cc's for package owners to the
> >> associated patch commit message.
> > 
> > I guess what you're actually asking for is to have only the parts of
> > series I want your review on sent to you?
> > 
> > That's a fair point, but having Cc: tags of package maintainers in the
> > commit log is just noise.
> 
> Strongly disagree, I fully *want* the commit log to capture the fact
> that I CC'd X, Y and Z, and if the committed patch doesn't have feedback
> tags from them, that's not my fault.

And if it did capture that, I would agree - but it doesn't.
It's in-band text which may or may not have had any effect on the
transmission of email - depending on client version, configuration and
developer workflow.

Nevertheless, this is exactly the discussion I wanted on a different
thread than this as stated below.

> Independently, technically speaking, there's also no other way for
> assigning different sets of CC's to different patches in a series, to my
> knowledge. There are hacks around it (for example, you can mail out each
> patch individually, setting the CC's per mailing, or else edit the CC
> headers (not commit message tags) in the formatted patch email), but
> none of those stick around when you rebase the work for v2 or v3, and
> format and send out the series again.
> 
> > And we are indeed seeing a lot of those at
> > the moment.
> > 
> > This seems like an excellent time to bring back the idea of unifying
> > the */Contributions.txt and codifying some of this behaviour
> > better. (None of them mention Cc: - and they are in fact all
> > bit-identical.)
> 
> Well, my personal guide mentions Cc:
> 
> https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Laszlo's-unkempt-git-guide-for-edk2-contributors-and-maintainers#contrib-18

And that's an extremely useful resource, but entirely
unofficial. Let's change that.

Regards,

Leif

> Thanks
> Laszlo
> 
> > Rather than derailing this thread, how about I send out a patch that
> > does just that, and then we can discuss modifications to the document?
> > 
> >> Series Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
> > 
> > Many thanks - I'll apply for your packages.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Leif
> > 
> >> On 2016-12-01 07:53:19, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> >>> LzmaCustomDecompressLib and PeiDxeDebugLibReportStatusCode were copied
> >>> from IntelFrameworkModulePkg to MdeModulePkg, but the originals were
> >>> kept for compatibility.
> >>>
> >>> Nevertheless, new code should be using the MdeModulePkg versions, so
> >>> change all references in in-tree platforms.
> >>>
> >>> Since the patches are individually independent, I plan to push them
> >>> myself as Reviewed-by:s appear. Laszlo/Mike - Are you OK with me pusing
> >>> 1 and 2 myself before the whole series is reviewed?
> >>>
> >>> Changes from RFC:
> >>> - Broken down into per-package patches.
> >>> - Received Reviewed-by:s added.
> >>>
> >>> Leif Lindholm (7):
> >>>   OvmfPkg: Remove use of IntelFrameworkModulePkg legacy libs
> >>>   QuarkSocPkg: Remove use of IntelFrameworkModulePkg legacy libs
> >>>   BeagleBoardPkg: Remove use of IntelFrameworkModulePkg legacy libs
> >>>   EmbeddedPkg: Remove use of IntelFrameworkModulePkg legacy libs
> >>>   DuetPkg: Remove use of IntelFrameworkModulePkg legacy libs
> >>>   EmulatorPkg: Remove use of IntelFrameworkModulePkg legacy libs
> >>>   Vlv2TbltDevicePkg: Remove use of IntelFrameworkModulePkg legacy libs
> >>>
> >>>  BeagleBoardPkg/BeagleBoardPkg.dsc       | 4 ++--
> >>>  DuetPkg/DuetPkgIa32.dsc                 | 4 ++--
> >>>  DuetPkg/DuetPkgX64.dsc                  | 4 ++--
> >>>  EmbeddedPkg/EmbeddedPkg.dsc             | 2 +-
> >>>  EmulatorPkg/EmulatorPkg.dsc             | 4 ++--
> >>>  OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc                 | 4 ++--
> >>>  OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc              | 4 ++--
> >>>  OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc                  | 4 ++--
> >>>  QuarkSocPkg/QuarkSocPkg.dsc             | 2 +-
> >>>  Vlv2TbltDevicePkg/PlatformPkgGccX64.dsc | 4 ++--
> >>>  Vlv2TbltDevicePkg/PlatformPkgIA32.dsc   | 6 +++---
> >>>  Vlv2TbltDevicePkg/PlatformPkgX64.dsc    | 6 +++---
> >>>  12 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> -- 
> >>> 2.10.2
> >>>
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