TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - April

TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - April

[Soumya Guptha]

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TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes

April 2, 2020





Events (Soumya Guptha):

Spring 2020 UEFI PLUGFEST<https://uefi.org/Spring2020Plugfest> has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus. More details are published here - https://uefi.org/events/upcoming

We are exploring to do a virtual meeting for the Tianocore Community members to discuss on TianoCore topics.

Please send if you have any topics to contribute or hear to Soumya Guptha (soumya.k.guptha@intel.com<mailto:soumya.k.guptha@intel.com>) by April 17th.

Soumya will communicate further on virtual meeting details.



Stable Tag Updates (Soumya Guptha/Liming Gao):

1.          Edk2 stable tag 202005 feature development in progress. Features are listed in: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning

Community Action: Please send if any feature requests that needs to be added to the next stable tag release.


Features Completed:

  *   ArmVirtPkg Implement support for TPM2 measured boot<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2560>
  *   OVMF Implement support for Linux v5.7+ initrd and mixed mode loading<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2564>
  *   OVMF Use loadimage/startimage for loading the kernel passed via the QEMU command line<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2566>
  *   OVMF Support booting from Fusion-MPT SCSI controllers<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2390>
  *   OVMF Support booting from VMware PVSCSI controllers<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2567>
  *   OVMF RFE: VCPU hotplug with SMM<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1512>
Features In Progress:

  *   RegularExpressionDxe: Use submodule way to access third party Oniguruma<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2073>
  *   BrotliCustomDecompressLib: Use submodule way to access third party brotli<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2559>
  *   BaseTools: Use submodule way to access third party brotli<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2558>
  *   Add support RISC-V arch platforms<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2532>
  *   Ensure NV Variable Confidentiality and Integrity for Platforms Supporting RPMC<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2594>

Stewards Meeting download (Mike Kinney)

1)          Issues with Mergify service. Pass CI and Mergify service. Waiting the result. See this issue, and ask Admin to refresh operation. Continue to monitor open CI.

2)          Code First Process (Leif started in the mailing list and got some feedback from the community) . Need approval from the community, then can follow the process. Use Edk2 staging branch for code development, validation, and spec ECR. Document this process in wiki page for the developer reference.

3)          Evaluation of code review process moving to github. Github web UI for code review, and email archive for community. Agreement to the stable and reliable service of Github Pull service. RFC will include the test repo for user evaluation.

4)          Line ending conversion. Dos line ending --> Linux line ending. Local setting enables auto conversion based on Windows OS. Linux line ending is the standard git defaulting.





AR review from March:

1.          Sean requested a few features (variable policy, TLS 1.3 etc.) for stable tag Q2 release. Sean will follow up with Liming on those features to get them added to Q2 stable tag.

     *   (Soumya) Follow up with liming on the features requested by Sean listed here<https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/55621?p=,,,20,0,0,0::Created,,community+meeting,20,2,0,71766249>

2.          Discussion around Bugzilla - Liming to explore adding more detailed information on bugzilla wiki page

3.          Governance and the process: Intel (Mike Kinney) has been evaluating the possibility of using git hub for the code review process. Expect RFCs in the month of early April.



Community Opens:

  1.  Rebecca - BHYVE support (need this by May). Rebecca to open a Bugzilla request. Community will evaluate.
  2.  Mike Kinney - we are using legacy GitBooks process/format. GitBooks will discontinue by end of April. We need to migrate our documents<https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Draft-Specification>  from legacy service to GitBooks current one. Mike Kinney will update the community on the migration status in the upcoming week. Mike will evaluate the migration tools for this migration and update the process.
  3.  We will be switching to zoom for all community meetings, please check the latest calendar on tianocore.



Acknowledgments:







Regards,

Soumya


Soumya Guptha
Open Source Program Manager, SFP/IAGS




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TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes

April 8, 2021



EVENTS:

UEFI Plugfest (Soumya Guptha):

  *   No new update this month.
  *   Currently UEFI is hosting virtual webinars during 2021, listed here (https://uefi.org/events/upcoming).
  *   If you have topics to propose, please visit uefi.org/events and submit your abstracts.
  *   ICWG team is planning to host a face-to-face UEFI plugfest in Oregon during spring 2022.



Google Summer of Code (Nate Desimone):
*       TianoCore was accepted! 12 students have expressed interest, 4 formal applications so far.
*       Expecting more applications before application deadline April 13th
*       During the application review process, we will review apps and submit our selections to Google. They will let us know how many slots we can have for our project.
*       We currently have 6 mentors, we need about 2 per participant/student.
*       We don't have enough mentors, we may need to reject some applications if we don't get enough mentors.
*       Community Action: If anyone is interested in mentoring students, please contact Nate DeSimone <nathaniel.l.desimone@intel.com>
o   Mentor Responsibilities listed here: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/GSoC2021#potential-mentors
o   Time commitment: Requires about 2.5 hours/week over the course of 10 weeks this summer
o   Listed on twitter - https://twitter.com/tianocore/status/1379207540005761024



Stable Tag (Soumya Guptha/Liming Gao):

  *   EDK2-stable202105 is in planning stage. May 10th is the feature planning freeze. Please send your feature requests soon.
  *   More information here - https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning
  *   Liming: currently monitoring EDKII community mail list to document change request. Latest data is available on the wiki page. Update notes are also included on the wiki with changes that will impact release planning for the next stable tag.
  *   Open: Kevin Davis: Is there a plan for someone going through the UEFI specs and verifying requirements/optional features that are not in the code? The current code base is a mixture of UEFI 2.7/2.8/2.9/ACPI etc.
o   Response from Mike Kinney: That sounds like a great community activity, would you like to lead the evaluation of that? We do not have that in the plans yet. Building that feature list and working with Liming to set some feature goals would be great. Then we can review the features and figure out a schedule for them
o   Response from Kevin Davis: checked with one of his engineers in Insyde, he agreed to work on that. He will provide an update next week after he has a better idea of schedule. Kevin plans to connect with Mike Kinney on further questions/updates.



Stewards Download: (Mike Kinney)
*       There are some inconsistencies in our tool chains for enabling symbolic debug
*       General concerns that we don't have very good recipes on how to set up source level debug (GDB connection, JTAG connection, UDK debugger etc). There are some things we could do to improve that material.
o   Soumya: Q3 effort?
o   Mike: observation, no dates yet. Still investigating.
o   Soumya: Do you expect features or doc reorganization?
o   Mike: combination, requirements will be tracked on Bugzilla for both code and documentation as investigation progresses



Opens:

Soumya Past Opens:
*       We have moved to Teams. We will continue to use this for the next couple months, let us know if you're having any issues with connecting to calls using Teams

Pull-requests:
*       Mike: Priority wise - this is still one of the highest priority. Actively working on that. Found landing zone for service, will deploy it there for formal evaluation from the community. Will use same server that is hosting our Bugzilla service right now

Soumya:
*       Puja Pandya will lead TianoCore community management starting May, Soumya will still attend meetings as able but will be focusing on Firmware Ecosystem Enabling Management going forward. Please provide your support to Puja



Regards,

Soumya





Soumya Guptha

TianoCore Community Manager, Intel








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