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

["Yao, Jiewen" <jiewen.yao@intel.com>]

To clarify below:
I just notice this one week delay. It impacts us.

> 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.

[Jiewen] I think the security pkg is already approved by me and Jian (SecurityPkg maintainer)
Bret also provides feedback that it looks good.

I request to check in to stable202008, if possible.


Thank you
Yao Jiewen



> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Laszlo Ersek
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 9:38 PM
> To: gaoliming <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>; 'Leif Lindholm'
> <leif@nuviainc.com>; afish@apple.com; Kinney, Michael D
> <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Guptha, Soumya K
> <soumya.k.guptha@intel.com>
> Cc: devel@edk2.groups.io; announce@edk2.groups.io; 'Chang, Abner (HPS
> SW/FW Technologist)' <abner.chang@hpe.com>; Zhang, Qi1
> <qi1.zhang@intel.com>; marcello.bauer@9elements.com
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] Soft Feature Freeze start date delays to 2020-08-24 for
> edk2-stable202008
> 
> 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
> 
> 
>