Re: [edk2-devel] Soft Feature Freeze starts now for edk2-stable202311

["Leif Lindholm" <quic_llindhol@quicinc.com>]

-announce, +discuss

On 2023-11-09 12:02, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> W dniu 7.11.2023 o 01:59, gaoliming via groups.io pisze:
> 
>> Below is edk2-stable202311 tag planning Proposed Schedule
>>
>> Date (00:00:00 UTC-8) Description
>>
>> 2023-08-25 Beginning of development
>> 2023-11-06 Soft Feature Freeze
>> 2023-11-10 Hard Feature Freeze
>> 2023-11-24 Release
> 
> Can edk2-platforms and edk2-non-osi be tagged at same time as edk2? 
> There are projects outside which use both repositories to build firmware 
> for their use.
> 
> I was contacted with one of them as they had problem with SBSA Reference 
> Platform (sbsa-ref in QEMU, qemu-sbsa in TF-A, SbsaQemu in EDK2). Turned 
> out that their set of git repositories was far too much out of sync with 
> each other.
> 
> Having edk2-stable202311 tag in those 3 repositories show them exactly 
> which versions to use and make their life easier.

TL;DR: yes.

That is the long-term plan.
Perhaps approaching medium-term now.

But that requires pruning of platforms that are no longer actively 
maintained, and ongoing validation efforts on all platforms in 
edk2-platforms.

On the whole, tagging edk2-platforms at the same time as we tag the main 
repo is unlikely to be beneficial. We'll need to introduce a freeze of 
the platforms tree once the main repo stable tag is made and then wait 
for reports/updates from maintainers.
And implement a deprecation/archiving process for platforms where this 
does not happen in a timely fashion.
And I guess also tag the edk2-non-osi repo at the same time as the 
platforms repo.

And there's not a whole lot of us to work on this. And currently we're 
focusing on migrating to the copilot^Wgithub PR system for 
submissions/review.

/
     Leif



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