[edk2-platforms][IMPORTANT] CI in edk2-platforms

[edk2-platforms][IMPORTANT] CI in edk2-platforms

[Michael Kubacki]

Hello edk2-platforms maintainers,

There is a TianoCore community meeting on Tools and CI that takes place 
weekly on Mondays from 19:30 - 20:30 PDT.

Meeting Details:
   https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/discussions/2614

Several recurring topics have come up regarding edk2-platforms:

   1. Consistently define toolchain support in edk2-platforms
   https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3660

   2. Audit edk2-platforms maintainers
   https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3659

   3. Enable continuous integration (CI) in edk2-platforms
   https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3658

   4. Stable tag support in edk2-platforms
   https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3661

As a maintainer, your help is needed to make progress on these items.

Ultimately, we want the open-source platforms to be more approachable 
and reliable by removing inactive platforms, eliminating unnecessary 
tool divergence, enabling well-defined and functional CI builds, and 
refreshing the maintainer list with the appropriate contacts.

To start, can you please respond if a representative from your package 
is able to attend the meeting at the regularly scheduled time to discuss 
these topics?

If not, can you please state the representative and their timezone you 
would like to join the discussion and we can try to plan around that.

We would like to add this to May 2, 2022 meeting instance agenda if we 
have quorum.

Thank you for your time and assistance.

Regards,
Michael

Re: [edk2-platforms][IMPORTANT] CI in edk2-platforms

[Ard Biesheuvel]

Hello Michael,

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 at 17:17, Michael Kubacki
<mikuback@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Hello edk2-platforms maintainers,
>
> There is a TianoCore community meeting on Tools and CI that takes place
> weekly on Mondays from 19:30 - 20:30 PDT.
>

That is 4:30 AM my time, unfortunately.


> Meeting Details:
>    https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/discussions/2614
>
> Several recurring topics have come up regarding edk2-platforms:
>
>    1. Consistently define toolchain support in edk2-platforms
>    https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3660
>
>    2. Audit edk2-platforms maintainers
>    https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3659
>
>    3. Enable continuous integration (CI) in edk2-platforms
>    https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3658
>
>    4. Stable tag support in edk2-platforms
>    https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3661
>
> As a maintainer, your help is needed to make progress on these items.
>
> Ultimately, we want the open-source platforms to be more approachable
> and reliable by removing inactive platforms, eliminating unnecessary
> tool divergence, enabling well-defined and functional CI builds, and
> refreshing the maintainer list with the appropriate contacts.
>
> To start, can you please respond if a representative from your package
> is able to attend the meeting at the regularly scheduled time to discuss
> these topics?
>

No

> If not, can you please state the representative and their timezone you
> would like to join the discussion and we can try to plan around that.
>
> We would like to add this to May 2, 2022 meeting instance agenda if we
> have quorum.
>
> Thank you for your time and assistance.
>

I'm happy to collaborate on this but a weekly meeting doesn't really
fit my schedule to begin with, so please don't plan around my [lack
of] availabity.

Kind regards,
Ard.

Re: [edk2-platforms][IMPORTANT] CI in edk2-platforms

[Pedro Falcato]

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Hi Michael,

I'm in the exact same situation as Ard. My timezone + my lack of
availability (I do this as one of my hobbies, and not as a job) make it
very hard to attend meetings,
although I really don't mind discussing these issues on the mailing list.

I do have something to say about point 2) though. My package (Ext4Pkg) only
has a single maintainer (myself) and it's really bothersome to try and
merge my own patches as I need to bother
the EDK2 platforms stewards every time I want to do so. If someone could
step up to be a co-maintainer and help review my own patches from time to
time, it would be really great.

Best regards,
Pedro

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 4:17 PM Michael Kubacki <
mikuback@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hello edk2-platforms maintainers,
>
> There is a TianoCore community meeting on Tools and CI that takes place
> weekly on Mondays from 19:30 - 20:30 PDT.
>
> Meeting Details:
>    https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/discussions/2614
>
> Several recurring topics have come up regarding edk2-platforms:
>
>    1. Consistently define toolchain support in edk2-platforms
>    https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3660
>
>    2. Audit edk2-platforms maintainers
>    https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3659
>
>    3. Enable continuous integration (CI) in edk2-platforms
>    https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3658
>
>    4. Stable tag support in edk2-platforms
>    https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3661
>
> As a maintainer, your help is needed to make progress on these items.
>
> Ultimately, we want the open-source platforms to be more approachable
> and reliable by removing inactive platforms, eliminating unnecessary
> tool divergence, enabling well-defined and functional CI builds, and
> refreshing the maintainer list with the appropriate contacts.
>
> To start, can you please respond if a representative from your package
> is able to attend the meeting at the regularly scheduled time to discuss
> these topics?
>
> If not, can you please state the representative and their timezone you
> would like to join the discussion and we can try to plan around that.
>
> We would like to add this to May 2, 2022 meeting instance agenda if we
> have quorum.
>
> Thank you for your time and assistance.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>


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Pedro Falcato

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