Re: Soft Feature Freeze start date delays to 2020-08-24 for edk2-stable202008

["Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>]

Hi Liming,

On 08/24/20 03:49, gaoliming wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> Based on the discussion https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/64493,
> we make the conclusion to defer one week for edk2-stable202008 to
> include the important patch for RiscV. Soft Feature Freeze (SFF) will
> start from today (2020-08-24). Below is new edk2-stable202008 tag
> planning proposed schedule
> <https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning>.
> If you have any comments, please raise it.
>
>
> Date (00:00:00 UTC-8) Description
> 2020-06-03            Beginning of development
> 2020-08-07            Feature Planning Freeze
> 2020-08-24            Soft Feature Freeze
> 2020-08-28            Hard Feature Freeze
> 2020-09-04            Release
>
> Because SFF date is changed, if the patches passed code review before
> SFF date (2020-08-24), the patches can still be merged for this stable
> tag. Here is the patch list those passed code review before new SFF
> date. For below features, I will let the feature owner decides whether
> to merge it for this stable tag.

As of this writing:

- Mon Aug 24 12:59:59 UTC 2020

we've entered the (new) Soft Feature Freeze. (The SFF date is 2020-08-24
00:00:00 UTC-8; in UTC, that's Mon Aug 24 08:00:00 UTC 2020 -- about
five hours ago.)

So:

> Feature List:
>
> https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/63767
> [PATCH] EmbeddedPkg/libfdt: Add strncmp macro to use AsciiStrnCmp

I'm going to merge this soon (with Leif's review).

> https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/64363
> [PATCH v5 0/3] UefiPayloadPkg: Runtime MMCONF

The UefiPayloadPkg patches in the series (#1, #3) have not received
reviews. We have to delay this until after the stable tag.

> https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/64354
> [PATCH v4 0/8] Need add a FSP binary measurement

The SecurityPkg patches have not been approved yet, and Bret and Jiewen
are still testing / discussing (as far as I understand):
<https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/64526>. Material for the next
tag.


On the other hand, I'm going to push two patches that had been reviewed
just before we entered the *delayed* SFF:

  https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/64345
  [PATCH 1/1] OvmfPkg/Bhyve: rename files to remove 'Pkg' infix

  https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/62561
  [PATCH] OvmfPkg/SmmControl2Dxe: negotiate ICH9_LPC_SMI_F_CPU_HOTPLUG

> Bug List:
>
> https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/50406
> [PATCH 1/1] MdePkg/Include: Add missing definitions of SMBIOS type 42h in SmBios.h

Liming, can you please merge this patch? For some reason I can't see it
in my local archives! (Only responses to it.)

> https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/64507
> [PATCH v2 1/1] UefiCpuPkg/MpInitLib: Always initialize the DoDecrement variable

I'm going to merge this soon.

> https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/64539
> [PATCH] Maintainers.txt: Update Liming mail address

I'll merge this one as well.

> https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/64529
> [PATCH] .pytool/EccCheck: Disable Ecc error code 10014 for open CI

Already merged as commit d4e0b9607c9a.

>
> https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/61938
> [PATCH v2 1/1] MdePkg : UefiFileHandleLib: fix buffer overrun in FileHandleReadLine()

I'll merge it.

Thanks!
Laszlo