Re: [edk2-announce] Soft Feature Freeze starts today for edk2-stable201903

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

Hi Liming,

On 02/22/19 15:25, Gao, Liming wrote:
> Hi, all
>   https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning lists edk2-stable201903 tag planning. Now, we enter into Soft Feature Freeze phase. In this phase, the feature without Reviewed-by or Acked-by tags will be delayed after the upcoming stable tag. The patch review can continue without break. Below is edk2-stable201903 tag planning.
> 
> 2019-03-08 Beginning of development
> 2019-02-22 Soft Feature Freeze
> 2019-03-01 Hard Feature Freeze
> 2019-03-08 Release

I got the last missing R-b from Ray for my patch set

[edk2] [PATCH v3 0/5] MdeModulePkg, OvmfPkg, ArmVirtPkg: more visible
boot progress reporting

today (2019-02-22) at 12:50 in my time zone (CET = UTC+01:00). Before
pushing the series, I asked Ray to confirm one last thing about his
review. I consider the series properly reviewed, but due to this last
question, I expect I should push it early next week.

IMO that satisfies the soft feature freeze definition:

https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/SoftFeatureFreeze

"By the date of the soft feature freeze, developers must have sent their
patches to the mailing list and received positive maintainer reviews
(Reviewed-by or Acked-by tags). [...] Between the soft feature freeze
and the hard feature freeze, previously reviewed and unit-tested
features may be applied (or merged) to the master branch, for
integration testing."

Do you (and others) agree?

If not, I won't insist -- while I'd certainly prefer these patches to be
in the upcoming stable tag, if the community perceives it would mean
bending the rules, I wouldn't want to do that. (Right now I don't think
it would bend the rules).

Thanks,
Laszlo