Re: [edk2-announce] Soft Feature Freeze starts today for edk2-stable201903

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 02/26/19 04:30, Gao, Liming wrote:
> Hi, all
>   Two features (Add SMM CET support and Add WiFi Connection Manager) get Acked-By or Reviewed-by near the soft feature freeze date. CET is X86 specific feature. WiFi connection manager is the standalone feature. Their impact should be small. So, I suggest to include them in this stable tag edk2-stable201903. If you have different opinion, please raise. If no objection, I will push them late this week. 
> 
> Add SMM CET support https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2019-February/037128.html
> NetworkPkg: Add WiFi Connection Manager to NetworkPkg https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2019-February/037137.html

I think the required feedback tags arrived on time, but just barely. (At
least in my time zone, CET = UTC+01:00.)

- For Jiewen's "[edk2] [PATCH V3 0/4] Add SMM CET support":
  - Ray's R-b appeared at 02/22/19 15:29
  - My Regression-tested-by appeared at 02/22/19 22:41

- For Wang Fan's "[edk2] [Patch V2] NetworkPkg: Add WiFi Connection
  Manager to NetworkPkg":
  - Jiaxin's R-b appeared at 02/22/19 08:56.

I'm OK if both features are pushed.


However, I do have a suggestion for the announcement email, for the
future. Given that we've already encountered three cases in this cycle
where the feedback tags are on the boundary, I suggest to include an
exact timestamp (in the UTC zone) in each announcement. I never expected
that this accuracy would be necessary, but apparently it is.

Thanks!
Laszlo