Re: [edk2-devel] Patch List for 202002 stable tag

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

Hi, Stewards and all:
  Below three patches status are updated. If you have no other comments, I will create edk2-stable202002 tomorrow and send the announcement. 

https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/55105 [PATCH 0/2] UefiCpuPkg/Library: Fix bug in MpInitLib (BZ: 2556) 
[Liming 2020-02-28] The solution is under discussion. The submitter requests this issue to be fixed happen reasonably soon. So, it may not catch this stable tag.
[Liming 2020-03-03] The solution is finalized. The patch passed reviewed. Now, it can catch this stable tag stable202002. The package maintainer submitted it in edk2 master 4c0f6e349d32cf27a7104ddd3e729d6ebc88ea70. PR: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/410

https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/54992 [Patch 1/1][edk2-stable202002]BaseTools: Fixed a regression issue in Makefile for incremental build (BZ: 2563)
[Liming 2020-02-28] This patch has passed review. This regression causes the basic incremental build not work with VS nmake tool. The fix is clear. So, it need to catch this stable tag.
[Liming 2020-03-03] It is regarded as the critical fix. It was submitted in edk2 master at 2be4828af1c92a848af90429a9a0b44544c80553. PR: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/409

https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/54995 [PATCH v1] ShellPkg: Fix 'ping' command Ip4 receive flow. (BZ: 2032)
[Liming 2020-02-28] This is the issue in ShellPkg. It may not be critical issue, and defer after this stable tag.
[Liming 2020-03-03] The submitted advised moving this issue out of CVE scope (and from stable-202002). So, it will defer after this stable tag.

Thanks
Liming
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Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] Patch List for 202002 stable tag

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:13:09 +0000, Gao, Liming wrote:
> > > I agree it needs to catch the stable tag. If it affects only VS 
> > > builds then I am not going to insist on extending the hard freeze, 
> > > but I (technically on holiday today/tomorrow) don't have time to 
> > > dig much deeper into it.
> > >
> [Liming] This fix is to restore the original behavior before the 
> commit 818283de3f6d for !INCLUDE style in Makefile generation. It does 
> update GNUmakefile and VS makefile generation. Because it just 
> restores original behavior, its quality risk is low. So, I suggest to catch it in this stable tag on current release planning.

If it is *just* a revert, then the risk is often low enough to not slip the date. But I think, as you say, this is something that restores original behaviour - but leaving the code different from the original.

> > > However, I think the process is pretty clear that this *should* 
> > > extend the hard freeze.
>
> [Liming] I am not aware of the process to extend the hard freeze. But, 
> you think more time is required for the review and test on the critical bug fix. I am OK.
> 
> > > I will note that from the trail (commitdate of 818283de3f6d until
> > > BZ2563 was raised) it appears that detecting this bug itself, 
> > > which went in two days before the soft freeze, took 15 days.
> 
> [Liming] Yes. It takes 15 days to expose this issue. 
> 
> > I agree with Liming's analysis on the patches (i.e., what goes in 
> > and what gets postponed), and I agree with Leif that we should 
> > extend the hard freeze by at least a couple of days.
>
> [Liming] If you both agree to extend the hard freeze, I have no objection. 
> I request to extend few days instead of few weeks if no other critical issues are reported. 
> Then, the impact of the community can be reduced. 
> 
> > This is not unusual. Originally I thought that edk2 freeze and 
> > release dates were set in stone, but then Mike explained to me that 
> > that had never been the intent. And other open source projects do 
> > several pre-releases (rc0, rc1, .... pre-releases with "release 
> > critical" (rc) bug fixes), before a final release. For example, QEMU 
> > regularly plans
> > rc0..rc2 or even rc3, and then *optionally* adds an rc4 if even rc3 
> > receives significant bugfixes. The idea is that the final release / 
> > tag should be preceded by a silent / calm period, where we've waited 
> > a few days and become reasonably convinced that "OK, there's nothing 
> > else we should obviously fix right now".
> > 
> > I wouldn't immediately suggest a full week extension, but maybe 
> > until March 4th (middle of next week)?
> [Liming] March 4th is one good choice to reserve few days for the different time zone people.
> If no more feedback, I will send announcement to delay this stable tag on Feb 28th (00:00:00 UTC-8).

I am OK with March 4th.

Thanks!

/
    Leif