Re: [PATCH] Maintainers.txt: add Laszlo Ersek as UefiCpuPkg reviewer

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 10/24/17 17:28, Dong, Eric wrote:
> Laszlo,
> 
> Thanks for your willing to review all CPU changes. We also found Ovmf is a very special system and need to take it in to consideration when do the changes.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>

Thank you Eric!

Can one (or more) of the Stewards ACK as well please?

(This is an admin change, not a code change, so I guess it should be
fine to push on Thursday or so.)

Thanks!
Laszlo


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:lersek@redhat.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 6:53 PM
>> To: edk2-devel-01 <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>
>> Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>; Dong, Eric <eric.dong@intel.com>; Jeff
>> Fan <vanjeff_919@hotmail.com>; Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>;
>> Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Ni, Ruiyu
>> <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
>> Subject: [PATCH] Maintainers.txt: add Laszlo Ersek as UefiCpuPkg reviewer
>>
>> UefiCpuPkg hosts a number of modules (SMM infrastructure,
>> MP-initialization) that may behave differently enough between virtualization
>> guests and physical boards that they merit regression testing and review
>> specifically from a virtualization perspective.
>>
>> Add Laszlo as a UefiCpuPkg reviewer (not maintainer) so that he be CC'd on
>> all UefiCpuPkg patches.
>>
>>> R: Package Reviewer: Cc address for patches and questions. Reviewers
>>>    help maintainers review code, but don't have push access.
>>
>> Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
>> Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
>> Cc: Jeff Fan <vanjeff_919@hotmail.com>
>> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
>> Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
>> Cc: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
>> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
>> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Notes:
>>     Recently there have been two UefiCpuPkg patches on the list that have
>>     each spent hardly more than 24 hours in review:
>>
>>     * d76c2da8d50d ("MdeModulePkg/PiSmmCore: Install Protocol when S3
>> resume
>>       finished.", 2017-10-11),
>>
>>     * 0594ec417c89 ("UefiCpuPkg/MpInitLib: Enhance waiting for AP
>>       initialization logic.", 2017-10-23).
>>
>>     Both times, I was out of office, and didn't get a chance to comment. The
>>     first commit broke OVMF:
>>
>>       http://mid.mail-archive.com/8d678707-fb07-0326-acfd-
>> 878bb7e8c5d6@redhat.com
>>       https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/152e8d7670d5
>>
>>     while the second commit has a good chance to break OVMF on at least
>> some
>>     virt hosts:
>>
>>       https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2017-October/016309.html
>>
>>     I was not CC'd either time. Had I been CC'd, the automated out-of-office
>>     reply that I always set up would have been received on the submitter's
>>     side, and I could have tested and/or commented on the patches in
>>     question, before they were pushed.
>>
>>     My intent as a UefiCpuPkg Reviewer is to be inserted in the patch review
>>     process for UefiCpuPkg. I should be explicitly CC'd; and my feedback
>>     should please be waited upon. I think I've proved myself reasonably
>>     responsive; I intend to follow up in a few days every time. My review
>>     should definitely not replace Eric's review, but I'd like to get an
>>     *official* chance to raise questions before a patch is pushed. Whenever
>>     I have nothing to add, I'll send an Acked-by. Thanks.
>>
>>  Maintainers.txt | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Maintainers.txt b/Maintainers.txt index
>> c1a5723af9db..297a9bfd2b56 100644
>> --- a/Maintainers.txt
>> +++ b/Maintainers.txt
>> @@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ M: Jaben Carsey <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
>> UefiCpuPkg
>>  W: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/UefiCpuPkg
>>  M: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
>> +R: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
>>
>>  UnixPkg
>>  W: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/UnixPkg
>> --
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