TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - June

TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - June

[Soumya Guptha]

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TianoCore Community Meeting

June 10, 2021



EVENTS:

  *   UEFI Plugfest (update from Dick Wilkins)
  *   Plugfest is being planned for early April 2022 in Oregon. Detailed planning of the schedule and logistics will kick off in a few weeks.
  *   ICWG is hosting UEFI Virtual Plugfest webinars, if you are interested in presenting, please send your proposals to UEFI plugfest.

Google Summer of Code (update from Nate Desimone)

  *   Google has announced this year's Summer of Code students. TianoCore is mentoring 7 students this year, which is more than 3 times larger than our previous high of 2 students! The list of projects is available here: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6376892141142016/
  *   Students have started submitting patches. Students need to complete projects by mid-august.
  *   Community Action: Provide feedback to students and support them to be successful.


Stable Tag updates:

  *   EDK2 Stable Tag 202105 has been released. EDK2 Stable Tag 202108 is collecting features.
  *   Details here: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning
  *   Action: Bugzilla needs to be updated with the latest Stable tag info - Mike Kinney will update.
  *   From Google summer of code projects, if there are any features impacting EDK2 core, we need to make sure that those features get into the stable tag. Mentors need to work on getting those features in and communicate with Liming Gao. Action: Nate Desimone plans to communicate with the mentors and educate them on the process.


Stewards Meeting Download (update from Mike Kinney)

  *   Discussed process issue - During beginning soft/hard releases, we need to add a RC1 & RC0 tags when soft and hard freeze are announced to support validation. Lazlo plans to write an RFC on this topic. Once this approves, liming may need to update the documentation.
  *   There is some confusion with Roles and Responsibilities (R&R) between maintainers and reviewers around reviewing packet (push label/merge). Reviewers also have push access. But Maintainer is the gate keeper and should approve the final changes to the package. Action for Stewards: We need to update the documentation (development process, who we are and any other wiki pages that are impacted) and clarify the R&R.
  *   Enhance support on previous Stable Tags - we will support critical bug fixes and security issues to the most recent Stable Tag.
     *   Release process between stable tags is typically 3 months. Today we are operating reactively based on request. We want to have a standard process. If there is a critical issue (such as a security issue)/bug fixes in the subprojects, we want to be more proactive by having a standard operating process to have these propagated into our most recent stable tag.
     *   Action: Liming to update the support of Stable Tags to reflect this change.



Opens

  *   (Open from Nate) NVME 2.0 just got formally published. Most interesting feature to be evaluated is "Zoned name space" feature. Any UEFI spec changes. Action: Evaluate and determine to see if we need to support this feature. What will be our plan for doing this? A topic for Ray Ni's design meeting. Soumya to communicate with Ray Ni on this topic.
  *   Update from Soumya: Puja Pandya moved on to pursue another opportunity. Soumya Guptha will continue to lead TianoCore Community Management.



Acknowledgements
Mike Kinney thanked Kevin Davis for doing analysis for UEFI 2.8 specification gaps.


Regards,
Soumya Guptha
TianoCore Community Manager





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TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes - June

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TianoCore Community Meeting Minutes

June 4, 2020





Events

Spring UEFI virtual plugfest webinars are happening now. Visit UEFI website, events page<https://uefi.org/node/4051> to register.



Stable Tag Updates

  1.  Released edk2-stable202005. List of features here - https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases/tag/edk2-stable202005
  2.  edk2-stable202008 tag initial planning is added here - https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning

New added one for stable 202005:

  *   Enable Host Unit Tests for Linux in Core CI<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2513>
  *   Add Open CI build test for Ovmf and Emulator<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2570>
  *   Add UEFI 2.8/2.8a definition in MdePkg<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2768>
  *   Add PI1.7/PI1.7a definition into MdePkg<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2769>
The deferred ones from stable tag 202005 to 202008:

  *   BootGuard TOCTOU vulnerability (CVE-2019-11098)<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614>
  *   Ensure NV Variable Confidentiality and Integrity for Platforms Supporting RPMC<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2594>
  *   Provide a pcd to disable SHA1 support<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682>



Stewards Meeting download (Mike Kinney)

  *   EDK2 Documents: some of them need to be updated. Expect some change requests.

  *   line endings stored in Gitrepo. Status: Being scoped in June.

  *   Code Review Process: using GitHub based code review as the new code review method to replace with the email-based code review process. Mike Kinney has developed a prototype of GitHub code review; Mike has been collecting feedback with a small set of community members. RFCs were sent out. Mike is collecting all feedback (converting to WIKI page). Community Discussion -
Discussion around GitHub code review process. Community meeting attendees didn't have any objections to move forward.

Reminder to the Community: Bugzilla - we have a growth in the bugs submitted. We request the community members to check the state of your bugs and help close the bugs

Community Opens/Actions from June:

GitBooks Status - Migration to new GitBooks is complete but some features are missing (it will not generate PDFs, ebooks etc.). We are no longer using legacy GitBooks.

Question from Daniel: Package movement for RISC-V - Mike Kinney has put up package rules/specs etc.. Action from stewards to provide update within next week.

New RFC - base tools as a Python PIP module (update from Mike). Community Action: Reminder, RFC is on the mailing list, please review the RFC

July Community Meeting - Moving from July 2nd to July 9th, due to holidays and to allow stewards meeting to precede community meeting.

Past Community Opens - Status:

  1.  Request to send an agenda with the issues that's being planned to be discussed in Bug scrub meetings. Specifically invite the bug owners to be invited. Liming is planning to send out the agenda ahead of time. [Status] Done. Liming has sent the bug list before the meeting.
  2.  Rebecca - BHYVE support (need this by May). Rebecca to open a Bugzilla request. Community will evaluate. - Status: Mike kinney has made progress. Fold this inside OVMF package.  CSM build . Mike Kinney, Rebecca and Lazlo to discuss further on where the BHYVE goes inside the EDK2 package. Action: Rebecca to email Mike Kinney, Lazlo and the mailing list. [Status] Done
  3.  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 to 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>. Action: Sean to send the current status for his requests and discuss in the mailing list.  Liming needs to collect the status on those features and see if those features can be added to q2 or q3 stable tag. [Status] After Q2 stable tag is created, Liming will work on Q3 stable tag.
  4.  Discussion around Bugzilla - Liming to explore adding more detailed information on Bugzilla wiki page. [Status] Liming is working on it. Plan is to send detailed information during Q2.





Acknowledgments:
Community Action: Please send Soumya if you like to acknowledge anyone from the community, if anyone helped you close bugs or reviewed code etc..Soumya will post those acknowledgements on the community page.

Regards,
Soumya
Soumya Guptha
Open Source Firmware Program Manager
Intel Corporation



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