[edk2-devel] [RFC V2] Create supported branch from edk2-stable* tag (Required to address critical bug BZ3111)
Laszlo Ersek
lersek at redhat.com
Thu Dec 17 13:49:27 UTC 2020
On 12/16/20 01:24, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The following bug has been fixed on edk2/master
>
> https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3111
> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/1226
>
> This bug is also considered a critical bug against edk2-stable202011. The behavior
> of the Variable Lock Protocol was changed in a non-backwards compatible manner in
> edk2-stable202011 and this is impacting some downstream platforms. The following
> 2 commits on edk2/master restore the original behavior of the Variable Lock Protocol.
>
> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/1226/commits/893cfe2847b83da74f53858d6acaa15a348bad7c
> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/1226/commits/16491ba6a6e9a91cedeeed45bc0fbdfde49f7968
>
> The request here is to create a supported branch from edk2-stable202011 tag and apply
> these 2 commits as critical bug fixes on the supported branch.
>
> Since we started using the edk2-stable* tag process, there has not been a request to create
> a supported branch from one of those tags. As a result, there are a couple opens that
> need to be addressed:
>
> 1) Supported branch naming convention.
>
> Proposal: stable/<YYYY><MM>
> Example: stable/202011
>
> 2) CI requirements for supported branches.
>
> Proposal: Update .azurepipelines yml files to also trigger on stable/* branches
> and update GitHub settings so stable/* branches are protected branches.
>
> 3) Release requirements for supported branches.
>
> Proposal: If there are a significant number of critical fixes applied to
> a stable/edk2-stable* branch, then a request for a release can be made that
> would trigger focused testing of the supported branch and creation of a new
> release. If all testing passes, then a tag is created on the stable/edk2-stable*
> branch and a release is created on GitHub that summarizes the set of critical
> fixes and the testing performed.
>
> Proposal: edk2-stable<YYYY><MM>.<XX>
> Example : edk2-stable201111.01
>
> Please let me know if you have any feedback or comments on this proposal. The goal
> is to close on this topic this week.
- Looks good; just a typo in the example: "edk2-stable201111.01" should
use 2020, not 2011.
- I agree with Liming that stable branches should have a predefined
lifetime. Keeping stable branches regression-free is very difficult and
ungrateful work, and the community should not have expectations that
we're going to do "LTS" branches. That's too resource hungry; companies
have dedicated "maintenance engineer" positions for that.
Here's an example stable process:
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/devel/stable-process.rst;hb=HEAD
I would recommend that, initially, we only promise support for the last
stable tag's branch.
- Including a unit test (if it exists) with the actual bugfix on a
stable branch seems important to me.
Thanks
Laszlo
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