[edk2-announce] March Community Meeting Minutes

[stephano <stephano.cetola@linux.intel.com>]

An HTML version is available here:
https://www.tianocore.org/minutes/Community-2019-03.html

License Review
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The draft of the RFC is out, comments welcome. See details here:
https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2019-March/037500.html

And V2 is here:
https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2019-March/037669.html

Please contact Stephano or the stewards directly if you have questions 
or comments you would not like shared on the list.

GitHub Pull Requests
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Stephano has taken an action item to work with the Kubernetes community 
to see what trade-offs and benefits they experience using GitHub. 
Kubernetes is one of the largest open source projects currently using 
GitHub for patch reviews. It is notable that a git module "request-pull" 
exists, and the kernel gives directions on how to use these "git style" 
of pull requests:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.0/maintainer/pull-requests.html

However, it has been noted by the community that GitHub is a much more 
modern way of doing patch review, hence the continued exploration of 
this topic. The main blockers are still the inadequate archive of 
information in email as well as a limited offline workflow. These 
blockers have been brought up by multiple community members, and 
Stephano is currently looking for a work around.

EDK II Repo Updates
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We would like to take a cue from Project Mu and improve the structure of 
the EDK II repository. In the coming weeks, Ray will be leading a lot of 
the work in terms of retiring packages or moving them to more suitable 
locations. The stewards have had these conversations over the past few 
years, and we now have the bandwidth to start moving forward on many of 
these efforts. We have already introduced edk2-platforms that has 
platform specific code. Now we need to start moving all platform 
specific code to that repo. We will also be working on retiring the 
edk-compatibility package, as well as removing support for EDK1-style 
capabilities from the BaseTools. There are other work areas around the 
emulator package regarding running edk2-firmware as an application under 
Windows, Linux, or macOS, which would let us retire the NT32 package. 
Adding platform initialization specifications was intended to replace 
the Intel Framework content. We'd like to see all the platforms move off 
of those and use the PI defined interfaces so we can remove them. The 
goal is that in the end the edk2 repository should be platform agnostic, 
and only keep a few emulation environments to support future 
integrations. OVMF and the emulator package will still be integral so 
that any future CI can check for backwards compatibility against those 
platforms.

Bug Triage
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Bug triages began in February. See here for details:
https://www.tianocore.org/bug-triage/

Please join us as we explore bugs and features every 2 weeks.

Groups.io
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Progress is continuing as Laszlo and Stephano have almost finished their 
review. Things look promising. We should be able to move to Groups.io 
for our mailing list solving the attachment and white-listing problems. 
We can also use Groups.io for document storage and design review 
discussions / doc storage.

Design Meetings
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Design meetings are schedule to begin in March. An announcement will go 
out sometime in the coming week or so.



Thank you all for joining. As always, please feel free to email the list 
or contact me directly with any questions or comments.

Kind Regards,
Stephano Cetola
TianoCore Community Manager