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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