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

["Gao, Liming" <liming.gao@intel.com>]

Laszlo:

Thanks
Liming
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> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Laszlo Ersek
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 7:55 PM
> To: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>
> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> Subject: Re: [edk2] [edk2-announce] Soft Feature Freeze starts today for edk2-stable201903
> 
> 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.
> 
Thanks.

> 
> 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.
> 
I suggest to list UTC zone in Proposed Schedule of EDK II Release Planning wiki page as below. I prefer to use PST (UST -8), because edk2-devel Archives (https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/) uses PST time. Then, we can base on the archive mail to check each patch. 

Date (UTC -8)	Description
2019-03-08 Beginning of development
2019-02-22 Soft Feature Freeze
2019-03-01 Hard Feature Freeze
2019-03-08 Release

> Thanks!
> Laszlo
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