**Highlights:**
- GSOC Need Additional Mentors more is better
- Bugzilla Status update – Devs still need to update status (ongoing issue)
- UEFI Summit switched to Virtual only
- Question to the community Concerns about additional dependencies? See Comments in Stewards Download
# Meeting Minutes:
1) **Event Updates (_5 minutes]**
- **UEFI Summit switched to Virtual only**
2) [**Stable Tag Updates (_5 minutes_)**
- Soft Freeze - 2022-
- Hard freeze - 2022-
- 2022- Release
-** Stable Tag 20220225 released **
3) **Stewards Download (_20 minutes_)**
-**Coverity Status**
-- No Updates
- Raised topic number of dependencies on external services (git sub-modules, tools VS, iasm, nasm, Python, pip module)
-- CI tools (spell check has a dependency on node package manager)
-- Stewards responsible to validate whether new dependencies are appropriate.
-- Developer helper tools (don’t affect CI builds)
-- Question to the community Concerns about additional dependencies
- **Comments** – We can’t afford to maintain our own set of tools. Dependencies allow us to leverage tools we don’t have time to build
-** Bugzilla Status**
- Still Need developers to update issues - Bug Scrubs working through issues
4) **Opens (_30 minutes_)**
- Brian Johnson concerned about the way build system has become too complex need to simplify, possibly a docker image to help
-- git submodules are complex and not well liked
- Rebecka helping Andrew to get the GDB scripts rebased and checked in waiting on a few more reviews.
- Rajnish – A way to run CI/CD Locally - https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/tree/master/.pytool#running-ci-locally
- Sean Brogan – Our RFC process needs to be reworked to be better involved. – Look at they way Rust utilizes github.
- Nate Desimone – 2 students want to add Rust support to edk2 not enough skilled Mentors
- Kevin Davis & Sean Brogan – PE file python module leverage the existing library - https://pypi.org/project/pefile/
- Sean Brogan suggests a larger community discussion on Rust
**AR: Miki reach out to Felix for update on (Coverity)**
**AR: Forward info on UEFI Summit- brian.johnson@hpe.com, Rajnish.s.chauhan@dell.com **
Next meeting will be back on the on the first Thursday of the month.
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Miki Demeter (she/her)
Security Researcher
IPAS GO
Intel Corporation
Portland Women in Tech Best Speaker 2019