Re: [edk2-devel] Call or topics for April TianoCore Community Meeting

["Michael D Kinney" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>]

MdeModulePkg has many different reviewers for different subsets.

We should also consider seeing if any of those reviewers that
are responsible for different subsets of MdeModulePkg would be 
willing to be a backup maintainer for the MdeModulePkg.

Zhiguang Liu <zhiguang.liu@intel.com> [LiuZhiguang001]
Dandan Bi <dandan.bi@intel.com> [dandanbi]
Zhichao Gao <zhichao.gao@intel.com> [ZhichaoGao]
Ray Ni <ray.ni@intel.com> [niruiyu]
Jiaxin Wu <jiaxin.wu@intel.com> [jiaxinwu]
Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com> [lzeng14]
Gua Guo <gua.guo@intel.com> [gguo11837463]
Prakashan Krishnadas Veliyathuparambil <krishnadas.veliyathuparambil.prakashan@intel.com> [kprakas2]
K N Karthik <karthik.k.n@intel.com> [karthikkabbigere1]
Richard Ho <richardho@ami.com> [richardho]
Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> [bcran]
Abdul Lateef Attar <AbdulLateef.Attar@amd.com> [abdattar]
Nickle Wang <nicklew@nvidia.com> [nicklela]

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Smith-Denny <osde@linux.microsoft.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 3:02 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Kinney, Michael D
> <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] Call or topics for April TianoCore Community
> Meeting
> 
> On 4/3/2024 1:38 PM, Michael D Kinney wrote:
> > Hi Oliver,
> >
> > I missed this response.  Did not show up in thread for some reason.
> 
> No worries.
> 
> >
> > But we can continue these topics on email.
> >
> > The TianoCore roles and responsibilities are documented here:
> >
> > 	https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/TianoCore-
> Who-we-are
> >
> > If there are maintainers are not following their responsibilities,
> then
> > please let us know and we can work together to find additional
> maintainers.
> 
> Thanks, as I've mentioned in several of my last patches to
> MdeModulePkg,
> I think we need an additional top level maintainer there who is
> currently active. Liming has obviously been a huge part of edk2, but
> has
> many roles and has been quiet on MdeModulePkg patches for over a
> month.
> His input is greatly valued, but it seems he could use some help
> maintaining the package so we can keep up developer flow, I had
> multiple
> patches that contained items such as fixes for UEFI spec violations
> and
> boot breaks that were sitting with multiple reviews that were not
> getting the maintainer review and merging in.
> 
> I think it would be very valuable to have a second MdeModulePkg top
> level maintainer in any case, this covers areas such as DxeCore that
> are some of the most central and complex parts of the code base and
> bugs there need immediate resolution.
> 
> I don't want to put him on the spot, but I would be tempted to
> nominate Ard, if he wants the added responsibility, as he is very
> knowledgeable in UEFI and one of the few people who actively reviews
> patches closely and timely. If he does not want the additional
> maintenance burden, then I would ask the stewards to help find
> a community member to take on this role with Liming.
> 
> >
> > There is not much progress on PR process.  We need resources to work
> on the
> > list of action items documented here:
> >
> > 	https://github.com/orgs/tianocore/projects/5
> 
> Thanks for this pointer, I know the majority of active community
> members report in many different forums that moving to PRs is
> critical and I am confident that as a community we can make this
> happen.
> 
> Thanks,
> Oliver


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