# 22th February 2023, 21:00 - 22:00 UTC+0 Attendees: Thomas, Stefan, Prakhar, Anastasia
## Decision summary * New flashrom home page generated with sphinx coming soon. And then we eventually move relevant content from wiki and deprecate wiki. Details below in notes. * We will have two release windows per year: one in spring/autumn and one in autumn/spring. For this year, we are trying the approach, planned windows are end of April-May and end of September-October. The size of a window is 3-4 weeks, during that time we have feature freeze and only bugfixing. At the end of the window, tag the release and create the release branch. ## Agenda * Patches to support Power PC coming, Stefan will help with testing * [quasisec] [https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/70264](https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/70264) needs attention. Same for [https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/67481](https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/67481) and [https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/67480/](https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/67480/) * It would be good to trim the tree’s verbosity down more and make things more consistent too. * Seems all good, TODO Thomas will have a look and also approve. Patches need to be rebased, hopefully for the last time. * [quasisec] [https://review.coreboot.org/q/topic:gsoc](https://review.coreboot.org/q/topic:gsoc) needs help from the community as a whole to help light get his work merged. I did quite a bit of patch review but more help is needed. GSoC work shouldn’t be left endlessly in review with an all or nothing approach. * As of today, this is merged. * Announcement to the mailing list coming soon (TODO Aarya) * [quasisec] new flashrom website, what is the timeline to get it up and running? It has been half a year since we confirmed the objective to do it. * Home page now can be generated with sphinx * [https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/72619](https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/72619) * The Plan * Sphinx patch needs to be merged * Build instructions integrated into sphinx, as a separate page * README context needs to be upgraded, as a landing page * Create CI to render sphinx to subdomain. Subdomain could be for the first few iterations for testing. Could be new.flashrom.org * Switch new page to flashrom.org, old stuff goes to wiki.flashrom.org * Migrate pages one-by-one * Eventually deprecate wiki * [aklm] let's decide when do we do 1.4? 1-2 months window maybe, some time later this year? * Maybe we decide on a window for each year, and stick to that? Two windows, even better. If necessary, point releases in between. * We can have two releases per year: one in spring, one in autumn. Below is suggested plan: * Next window is at the end of April-May. We can tag rc1 on 17th or 24th April, and for the following 4 weeks we have feature freeze, but actively bugfixing. * Every week we tag rc+1. * After 3-4 weeks we tag a release. At this point make a branch. * If something is discovered to be unfixable in this time, and no one is interested to fix, revert it. * Second window could be around the end September - October (exact dates TBD later). -- Anastasia. _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list -- flashrom@flashrom.org To unsubscribe send an email to flashrom-le...@flashrom.org
