Hi, On 11/07/18 02:12, Gao, Liming wrote: > Hi, all
> https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning > lists edk2-stable201811 tag planning. Now, we enter into Soft Feature > Freeze phase. In this phase, the feature under review will not be > allowed to be pushed. The patch review can continue without break. > Here is edk2-stable201811 tag planning. > 2018-08-15 Beginning of development > 2018-11-01 Soft Feature Freeze > 2018-11-08 Hard Feature Freeze > 2018-11-15 Release I don't think an announcement should be made like this, one week after the fact. (If I missed the exact dates on yesterday's stewards' call, then I apologize.) If we are making the announcement about the Soft Feature Freeze on 2018-Nov-07, then the Soft Feature Freeze should start no earlier than 2018-Nov-08 or so. Certainly not retro-actively. Perhaps we should push the schedule by one week. I understand that will prevent the stable tag from being dropped *exactly* three months after start of development (2018-Aug-15). I think that should be fine. Nobody forces us to work in cycles of *exactly* three months. (Even if we slipped over to December, that shouldn't be a huge problem; we'd just call the tag "edk2-stable201812".) The workflow itself is work-in-progress. I realize that <https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning> has had the dates available all this time. But, the reason we make the announcements in the first place is precisely that people don't keep staring at that page. ( For example, I reviewed and pushed 4 patches yesterday (on 2018-Nov-06): 1 e038bde2679b Revert "OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe: list "UnalignedIoInternal.h" in the INF file" 2 98856a724c2a Revert "OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe: VMWare SVGA device support" 3 438ada5aa5a1 Revert "OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe: Helper functions for unaligned port I/O." 4 328409ce8de7 Revert "OvmfPkg: VMWare SVGA display device register definitions" which are the first four patches (out of five) from the following series: [edk2] [PATCH v2 0/5] OvmfPkg: simply use the Bochs interface for vmsvga These reverts are arguably not bugfixes; they are preparation for re-implementing a feature from scratch (the last patch in that series). Thus, had I known we were already in the Soft Feature Freeze, I wouldn't have pushed them, because the review was not complete before the soft freeze start. But I had just returned from a week (or more) of PTO, there was no announcement on the list yet, and I didn't remember the wiki page. (In the technical sense, the reverts are not disruptive, luckily; they remove code that is dead anyway.) ) This is my opinion at least -- I'm ready to be overruled, but I wanted to voice it. Thanks Laszlo _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
