Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Marvin Häuser]

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Hi Mike,

Could this be extended to allow for a full PR workflow, if the package maintainers would prefer so? We would like to utilise this for Ext4Pkg. It could be considered a trial. :)

Best regards,
Marvin

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Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Michael D Kinney]

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Hi Marvin,

One of the long standing requirements for tianocore is to have a history of all patch series and all
code review activity archived in the mailing list.

Adopting the full PR workflow right now for even a portion of edk2-platforms would have a gap in the
history of patch series and review comments.

edk2-staging repo branches can choose to use this style if they want, but when content is migrated from
edk2-staging into main repos, we want the email archive for that activity.

Mike

From: Marvin Häuser <mhaeuser@posteo.de>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 3:24 PM
To: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

Hi Mike,

Could this be extended to allow for a full PR workflow, if the package maintainers would prefer so? We would like to utilise this for Ext4Pkg. It could be considered a trial. :)

Best regards,
Marvin

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Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Marvin Häuser]

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Well, in this form, it complicates our workflow and adds no value. NACK from Pedro and me till there at least is CI.

Best regards,
Marvin

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Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Rebecca Cran]

Is this still a requirement since Laszlo's departure from the project?

I seem to recall it was him who made it a sticking point of moving to a 
GitHub PR workflow originally with the requirement to have emails of 
everything.


-- 

Rebecca Cran


On 3/15/23 4:34 PM, Michael D Kinney wrote:
>
> Hi Marvin,
>
> One of the long standing requirements for tianocore is to have a 
> history of all patch series and all
>
> code review activity archived in the mailing list.
>
> Adopting the full PR workflow right now for even a portion of 
> edk2-platforms would have a gap in the
>
> history of patch series and review comments.
>
> edk2-staging repo branches can choose to use this style if they want, 
> but when content is migrated from
>
> edk2-staging into main repos, we want the email archive for that activity.
>
> Mike
>
> *From:*Marvin Häuser <mhaeuser@posteo.de>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 15, 2023 3:24 PM
> *To:* Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io
> *Subject:* Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, 
> protected branches, and 'push' label
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Could this be extended to allow for a full PR workflow, if the package 
> maintainers would prefer so? We would like to utilise this for 
> Ext4Pkg. It could be considered a trial. :)
>
> Best regards,
> Marvin
>
> _._,_._,_
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 01:59:49PM -0600, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> Is this still a requirement since Laszlo's departure from the project?
> 
> I seem to recall it was him who made it a sticking point of moving to a
> GitHub PR workflow originally with the requirement to have emails of
> everything.

I think it is very useful to have everything on the mailing list for
a number of reasons:

 (1) In my experience reviewing patches, especially more complex ones,
     works better in email than in github PR workflows.
 (2) github doesn't preserve stuff like a mail archive does.  When a
     patch series goes through multiple revision github only preserves
     the latest revision which was actually merged.
 (3) Search engines seem to be better in indexing mail list archives
     than github pull requests.

Nevertheless I see some room for improvement in our current workflow.
Developers often open a PR anyway for to run the CI.  So maybe we could
automate sending the emails and also avoid running CI twice by avoiding
both developer and maintainer opening a PR, with a workflow like this:

 * developer opens a draft PR to run CI for the patch series.
 * when the series passes CI and is ready un-draft the PR.
 * github action sends the patch series to the edk2-devel list
   for review (maybe only after CI passed ...).
 * patch review happens on the list.
 * in case the developer pushes updates to the branch in response to
   review comments the github action posts v2/v3 of the series too.
 * once review is done merge the PR.

take care,
  Gerd

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Rebecca Cran]

I like that proposed workflow.

I've also been wondering if we could consider choosing a different 
product for patch reviews that supports our desired workflow better, 
such as Gitlab or Phorge (the new Phabricator project).

If anyone would be willing to donate money for colocation, I'd be happy 
to move one or more of my servers into a datacenter and use them for 
hosting TianoCore services.


-- 

Rebecca Cran


On 3/17/23 3:33 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 01:59:49PM -0600, Rebecca Cran wrote:
>> Is this still a requirement since Laszlo's departure from the project?
>>
>> I seem to recall it was him who made it a sticking point of moving to a
>> GitHub PR workflow originally with the requirement to have emails of
>> everything.
> I think it is very useful to have everything on the mailing list for
> a number of reasons:
>
>   (1) In my experience reviewing patches, especially more complex ones,
>       works better in email than in github PR workflows.
>   (2) github doesn't preserve stuff like a mail archive does.  When a
>       patch series goes through multiple revision github only preserves
>       the latest revision which was actually merged.
>   (3) Search engines seem to be better in indexing mail list archives
>       than github pull requests.
>
> Nevertheless I see some room for improvement in our current workflow.
> Developers often open a PR anyway for to run the CI.  So maybe we could
> automate sending the emails and also avoid running CI twice by avoiding
> both developer and maintainer opening a PR, with a workflow like this:
>
>   * developer opens a draft PR to run CI for the patch series.
>   * when the series passes CI and is ready un-draft the PR.
>   * github action sends the patch series to the edk2-devel list
>     for review (maybe only after CI passed ...).
>   * patch review happens on the list.
>   * in case the developer pushes updates to the branch in response to
>     review comments the github action posts v2/v3 of the series too.
>   * once review is done merge the PR.
>
> take care,
>    Gerd
>

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Rebecca Cran]

Talking about mailing lists, I'm still disappointed that we lost so much 
history of discussion and reviews around the project when the edk2-devel 
archive at lists.01.org was deleted.

I've sometimes wanted to go back and take a look at the review history 
of a certain commit only to find it's been lost.


-- 
Rebecca Cran


On 3/17/23 3:33 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 01:59:49PM -0600, Rebecca Cran wrote:
>> Is this still a requirement since Laszlo's departure from the project?
>>
>> I seem to recall it was him who made it a sticking point of moving to a
>> GitHub PR workflow originally with the requirement to have emails of
>> everything.
> I think it is very useful to have everything on the mailing list for
> a number of reasons:
>
>   (1) In my experience reviewing patches, especially more complex ones,
>       works better in email than in github PR workflows.
>   (2) github doesn't preserve stuff like a mail archive does.  When a
>       patch series goes through multiple revision github only preserves
>       the latest revision which was actually merged.
>   (3) Search engines seem to be better in indexing mail list archives
>       than github pull requests.
>
> Nevertheless I see some room for improvement in our current workflow.
> Developers often open a PR anyway for to run the CI.  So maybe we could
> automate sending the emails and also avoid running CI twice by avoiding
> both developer and maintainer opening a PR, with a workflow like this:
>
>   * developer opens a draft PR to run CI for the patch series.
>   * when the series passes CI and is ready un-draft the PR.
>   * github action sends the patch series to the edk2-devel list
>     for review (maybe only after CI passed ...).
>   * patch review happens on the list.
>   * in case the developer pushes updates to the branch in response to
>     review comments the github action posts v2/v3 of the series too.
>   * once review is done merge the PR.
>
> take care,
>    Gerd
>

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Rebecca Cran]

Sorry, it might be the sourceforge mailing list that got lost, not 
lists.01.org. I was wanting to see the review of the following commit, 
but Google isn't finding anything:


commit a61331e8b78ba264f0ccd011b6dc5b9e809730a5
Author: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 22 14:32:23 2016 +0800

     BaseTools GnuMakefile: Update GCC Flags to the specific one with 
BUILD_ prefix



On 3/17/23 4:48 AM, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> Talking about mailing lists, I'm still disappointed that we lost so 
> much history of discussion and reviews around the project when the 
> edk2-devel archive at lists.01.org was deleted.
>
> I've sometimes wanted to go back and take a look at the review history 
> of a certain commit only to find it's been lost.
>
>

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Marvin Häuser]

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Hi Rebecca and Gerd,

Replying to 2 mails at once...

> On 17. Mar 2023, at 11:36, Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> wrote:
> 
> I like that proposed workflow.
> 
> I've also been wondering if we could consider choosing a different product for patch reviews that supports our desired workflow better, such as Gitlab or Phorge (the new Phabricator project).

I'd be very cautious with suggesting / approving more tooling. It gets more confusing (what is hosted where), it gets more complicated to maintain (who hosts what and is "guaranteed" to be available to fix things), and so on.

> 
> If anyone would be willing to donate money for colocation, I'd be happy to move one or more of my servers into a datacenter and use them for hosting TianoCore services.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Rebecca Cran
> 
> 
> On 3/17/23 3:33 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 01:59:49PM -0600, Rebecca Cran wrote:
>>> Is this still a requirement since Laszlo's departure from the project?
>>> 
>>> I seem to recall it was him who made it a sticking point of moving to a
>>> GitHub PR workflow originally with the requirement to have emails of
>>> everything.
>> I think it is very useful to have everything on the mailing list for
>> a number of reasons:
>> 
>>  (1) In my experience reviewing patches, especially more complex ones,
>>      works better in email than in github PR workflows.

I have no experience with things like large-scale patch set review in, say, projects like the Linux kernel. However, in about 7 years of watching edk2-devel and opportunistically participating in patch review myself, I never once encountered something about mail patch review that made me think "oh, that's neat". Quite the opposite - I cannot easily cross-reference when commenting, I cannot easily see more context to the changed lines, and I cannot easily see the end result after all patches in a series have been applied. These are all things that GitHub allows me to do. I keep hearing mail patches "work better", but I never found convincing reasons for these claims. Mind sharing? :)

>>  (2) github doesn't preserve stuff like a mail archive does.  When a
>>      patch series goes through multiple revision github only preserves
>>      the latest revision which was actually merged.

Is that so? Taking this AUDK PR as an example: https://github.com/acidanthera/audk/pull/23
Note the review comments that say "Outdated" and thus refer to previous revisions of the PR. I can expand the comments to read their content, see their immediate context (of the previous change that did not end up getting merged) and I can click the file name to get an "all files changed" view of the snapshot that was reviewed. What is missing?
(I’m not sure whether the old stuff isn’t eventually wiped, though, maybe worth carefully inspecting the documentation for options).

>>  (3) Search engines seem to be better in indexing mail list archives
>>      than github pull requests.

That, unfortunately, undoubtably is true.

>> 
>> Nevertheless I see some room for improvement in our current workflow.
>> Developers often open a PR anyway for to run the CI.  So maybe we could
>> automate sending the emails and also avoid running CI twice by avoiding
>> both developer and maintainer opening a PR, with a workflow like this:
>> 
>>  * developer opens a draft PR to run CI for the patch series.
>>  * when the series passes CI and is ready un-draft the PR.
>>  * github action sends the patch series to the edk2-devel list
>>    for review (maybe only after CI passed ...).
>>  * patch review happens on the list.
>>  * in case the developer pushes updates to the branch in response to
>>    review comments the github action posts v2/v3 of the series too.
>>  * once review is done merge the PR.

That would at least be a lot better than what we have now.

Best regards,
Marvin

>> 
>> take care,
>>   Gerd


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Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Rebecca Cran]

On 3/17/23 6:32 AM, Marvin Häuser wrote:
>
>> On 17. Mar 2023, at 11:36, Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> wrote:
>>
>> I like that proposed workflow.
>>
>> I've also been wondering if we could consider choosing a different 
>> product for patch reviews that supports our desired workflow better, 
>> such as Gitlab or Phorge (the new Phabricator project).
>
> I'd be very cautious with suggesting / approving more tooling. It gets 
> more confusing (what is hosted where), it gets more complicated to 
> maintain (who hosts what and is "guaranteed" to be available to fix 
> things), and so on.

That's easily solved by good documentation.

If we had a server we hosted ourselves, we'd at least solve one source 
of confusion: today, our Bugzilla instance is hosted by "Advanced 
Computer Graphics" (bugzilla.tianocore.org is an alias for 
tianocore.acgmultimedia.com.).


-- 

Rebecca Cran

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 12:32:15PM +0000, Marvin Häuser wrote:
> Hi Rebecca and Gerd,
> 
> Replying to 2 mails at once...
> 
> > On 17. Mar 2023, at 11:36, Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I like that proposed workflow.
> > 
> > I've also been wondering if we could consider choosing a different
> > product for patch reviews that supports our desired workflow better,
> > such as Gitlab or Phorge (the new Phabricator project).
> 
> I'd be very cautious with suggesting / approving more tooling. It gets
> more confusing (what is hosted where), it gets more complicated to
> maintain (who hosts what and is "guaranteed" to be available to fix
> things), and so on.

Agree.  Also from the web-based review tools I've worked with so far
(not much, only github and gitlab) github is the better one.

> >>  (1) In my experience reviewing patches, especially more complex ones,
> >>      works better in email than in github PR workflows.
> 
> I have no experience with things like large-scale patch set review in,
> say, projects like the Linux kernel. However, in about 7 years of
> watching edk2-devel and opportunistically participating in patch
> review myself, I never once encountered something about mail patch
> review that made me think "oh, that's neat". Quite the opposite - I
> cannot easily cross-reference when commenting, I cannot easily see
> more context to the changed lines, and I cannot easily see the end
> result after all patches in a series have been applied. These are all
> things that GitHub allows me to do. I keep hearing mail patches "work
> better", but I never found convincing reasons for these claims. Mind
> sharing? :)

 (1) Navigation works better for me.  On the email side I have the freedom
     to pick whatever client I like and can configure it the way I like.

 (2) I can easily automate things.  For example it's just two key strokes
     in the mail client to run a script which creates a new branch and
     applies the whole patch series.

The latter is what I usually do when I want compile and test the series,
or when I need something plain email doesn't give me (like getting more
patch context, which indeed is a nice github feature).

> >>  (2) github doesn't preserve stuff like a mail archive does.  When a
> >>      patch series goes through multiple revision github only preserves
> >>      the latest revision which was actually merged.

> (I’m not sure whether the old stuff isn’t eventually wiped, though,
> maybe worth carefully inspecting the documentation for options).

Yes, this.  For active PRs this usually isn't much of a problem.  But
try come back after a few months, or even a few years (see Rebecca
trying to lookup context for a 2016 commit in the archives).

> >>  * developer opens a draft PR to run CI for the patch series.
> >>  * when the series passes CI and is ready un-draft the PR.
> >>  * github action sends the patch series to the edk2-devel list
> >>    for review (maybe only after CI passed ...).
> >>  * patch review happens on the list.
> >>  * in case the developer pushes updates to the branch in response to
> >>    review comments the github action posts v2/v3 of the series too.
> >>  * once review is done merge the PR.
> 
> That would at least be a lot better than what we have now.

While discussing tooling:  Can we move from bugzilla to github issues
for bug tracking?  That will give us some nice automation and
integration benefits.  As far I know the blocker for doing that was
github issues not having a permission system, which is bad for reporting
security bugs.  But with security bug reporting and processing using
github security advisories now this point should be moot, no?

The big problem here is what to do with bugzilla.  Migrate all bugs
over?  Not sure whenever any tooling exists for that already.  I suspect
we would not be the first ones trying to do that.  Or switch bugzilla
into readonly mode and keep it running that way for archive purposes?
Would have the advantage that all the bugzilla links in the commit
messages continue working.

take care,
  Gerd

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Marvin Häuser]

> On 17. Mar 2023, at 14:44, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 12:32:15PM +0000, Marvin Häuser wrote:
>> Hi Rebecca and Gerd,
>> 
>> Replying to 2 mails at once...
>> 
>>>> On 17. Mar 2023, at 11:36, Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I like that proposed workflow.
>>> 
>>> I've also been wondering if we could consider choosing a different
>>> product for patch reviews that supports our desired workflow better,
>>> such as Gitlab or Phorge (the new Phabricator project).
>> 
>> I'd be very cautious with suggesting / approving more tooling. It gets
>> more confusing (what is hosted where), it gets more complicated to
>> maintain (who hosts what and is "guaranteed" to be available to fix
>> things), and so on.
> 
> Agree.  Also from the web-based review tools I've worked with so far
> (not much, only github and gitlab) github is the better one.
> 
>>>> (1) In my experience reviewing patches, especially more complex ones,
>>>>     works better in email than in github PR workflows.
>> 
>> I have no experience with things like large-scale patch set review in,
>> say, projects like the Linux kernel. However, in about 7 years of
>> watching edk2-devel and opportunistically participating in patch
>> review myself, I never once encountered something about mail patch
>> review that made me think "oh, that's neat". Quite the opposite - I
>> cannot easily cross-reference when commenting, I cannot easily see
>> more context to the changed lines, and I cannot easily see the end
>> result after all patches in a series have been applied. These are all
>> things that GitHub allows me to do. I keep hearing mail patches "work
>> better", but I never found convincing reasons for these claims. Mind
>> sharing? :)
> 
> (1) Navigation works better for me.  On the email side I have the freedom
>     to pick whatever client I like and can configure it the way I like.

Well, customization is not the kind of point one can argue against. :) OK, thanks.

> 
> (2) I can easily automate things.  For example it's just two key strokes
>     in the mail client to run a script which creates a new branch and
>     applies the whole patch series.
> 
> The latter is what I usually do when I want compile and test the series,
> or when I need something plain email doesn't give me (like getting more
> patch context, which indeed is a nice github feature).

Right, but I’d say especially with tools like VS Code, just checking out the PR branch (or even opening remotely without downloading it fully) is equally easy. This sounds more like a mitigation for the shortcomings of mail patches.

> 
>>>> (2) github doesn't preserve stuff like a mail archive does.  When a
>>>>     patch series goes through multiple revision github only preserves
>>>>     the latest revision which was actually merged.
> 
>> (I’m not sure whether the old stuff isn’t eventually wiped, though,
>> maybe worth carefully inspecting the documentation for options).
> 
> Yes, this.  For active PRs this usually isn't much of a problem.  But
> try come back after a few months, or even a few years (see Rebecca
> trying to lookup context for a 2016 commit in the archives).

I also didn’t find anything in the GutHub docs regarding guarantees for archival. Disgusting.

> 
>>>> * developer opens a draft PR to run CI for the patch series.
>>>> * when the series passes CI and is ready un-draft the PR.
>>>> * github action sends the patch series to the edk2-devel list
>>>>   for review (maybe only after CI passed ...).
>>>> * patch review happens on the list.
>>>> * in case the developer pushes updates to the branch in response to
>>>>   review comments the github action posts v2/v3 of the series too.
>>>> * once review is done merge the PR.
>> 
>> That would at least be a lot better than what we have now.
> 
> While discussing tooling:  Can we move from bugzilla to github issues
> for bug tracking?  That will give us some nice automation and
> integration benefits.  As far I know the blocker for doing that was
> github issues not having a permission system, which is bad for reporting
> security bugs.  But with security bug reporting and processing using
> github security advisories now this point should be moot, no?

Hmm, is there any big problem that requires a solution? While I always like streamlining and centralisation, and I would vote for GitHub Issues if it was about a new bugtracker, I never heard many complaints about bugzilla. Everyone is used to it and there’s a ton of links in the wild. Even if the old service is archived, any currently active ticket would not easily point to its active GitHub Issues counterpart, would it? Just wondering whether it is worth the disruption.

Best regards,
Marvin

> 
> The big problem here is what to do with bugzilla.  Migrate all bugs
> over?  Not sure whenever any tooling exists for that already.  I suspect
> we would not be the first ones trying to do that.  Or switch bugzilla
> into readonly mode and keep it running that way for archive purposes?
> Would have the advantage that all the bugzilla links in the commit
> messages continue working.
> 
> take care,
>  Gerd
> 

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Rebecca Cran]

On 3/17/23 8:08 AM, Marvin Häuser wrote:
>> On 17. Mar 2023, at 14:44, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, this.  For active PRs this usually isn't much of a problem.  But
>> try come back after a few months, or even a few years (see Rebecca
>> trying to lookup context for a 2016 commit in the archives).
> I also didn’t find anything in the GutHub docs regarding guarantees for archival. Disgusting.

There's a PR from npm cli from 2018 that still appears to have all data 
about it: https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/1

But, in other places there do seem to be concerns about data retention, 
for example 
https://github.com/tianocore-docs/edk2-VfrSpecification/actions is empty 
and almost certainly had a run in November 2020. I don't know if that's 
something we configured, or if it deletes history for GitHub Actions 
after a few years.


-- 

Rebecca Cran

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Rebecca Cran]

On 3/17/23 7:44 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Agree.  Also from the web-based review tools I've worked with so far
> (not much, only github and gitlab) github is the better one.

Having used Review Board, Gitlab, Github, Phabricator, Gerrit and 
probably others, Gerrit is by far my least favorite.

I haven't enjoyed the GitHub UI compared to Gitlab or Phabricator, but I 
can live with it without too much frustration.


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Rebecca Cran

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Michael D Kinney]

The full lists.01.org history was imported into groups.io.

Stephano did a great job working with groups.io to make that happen.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 3:58 AM
> To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io
> Cc: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Marvin Häuser <mhaeuser@posteo.de>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label
> 
> Sorry, it might be the sourceforge mailing list that got lost, not
> lists.01.org. I was wanting to see the review of the following commit,
> but Google isn't finding anything:
> 
> 
> commit a61331e8b78ba264f0ccd011b6dc5b9e809730a5
> Author: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
> Date:   Mon Aug 22 14:32:23 2016 +0800
> 
>      BaseTools GnuMakefile: Update GCC Flags to the specific one with
> BUILD_ prefix
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/17/23 4:48 AM, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> > Talking about mailing lists, I'm still disappointed that we lost so
> > much history of discussion and reviews around the project when the
> > edk2-devel archive at lists.01.org was deleted.
> >
> > I've sometimes wanted to go back and take a look at the review history
> > of a certain commit only to find it's been lost.
> >
> >

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

[Michael D Kinney]

I believe the policies for GitHub Actions artifacts and GitHub PR data retention
are different.  Max 90 days for GitHub Actions for public repos:

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/usage-limits-billing-and-administration#artifact-and-log-retention-policy


Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Rebecca Cran
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 7:20 AM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; mhaeuser@posteo.de; Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label
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> On 3/17/23 8:08 AM, Marvin Häuser wrote:
> >> On 17. Mar 2023, at 14:44, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Yes, this.  For active PRs this usually isn't much of a problem.  But
> >> try come back after a few months, or even a few years (see Rebecca
> >> trying to lookup context for a 2016 commit in the archives).
> > I also didn’t find anything in the GutHub docs regarding guarantees for archival. Disgusting.
> 
> There's a PR from npm cli from 2018 that still appears to have all data
> about it: https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/1
> 
> But, in other places there do seem to be concerns about data retention,
> for example
> https://github.com/tianocore-docs/edk2-VfrSpecification/actions is empty
> and almost certainly had a run in November 2020. I don't know if that's
> something we configured, or if it deletes history for GitHub Actions
> after a few years.
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> Rebecca Cran
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