2025-01-08 - coreboot Leadership Meeting Minutes

# 2025-01-08 - coreboot Leadership Meeting

## Attendees
Mina Asante, Saulo Silva, Felix Singer, Christian Walter, Andre, Maximilian Brune, Jay Talbott,
Julius Werner, Matt DeVillier,  Werner Zeh, Andy Ebrahiem, David Hendricks, Martin Roth, Alicja
Michalska, Jeremy Compostella.

## Open Action Items
  * 2024-11-27
    * Send out poll with regards to  LLM usage (requested by SFC)
  * 2024-10-30
    * Add clarification to docs, “do not use gerrit change-id or CB: format in reference to already-merged patches”.
  * 2024-10-16
    * Matt: Set up a meeting to discuss board status alternatives and send out invites. 
    * Decouple data collection with uploading
    * Require gerrit credentials or other auth to push
    * Json format?
    * https://github.com/chrultrabook/linux-tools/blob/main/debugging.sh
  * 2024-09-18
    * Jon: Schedule a dedicated meeting to discuss the Coverity defects and action plan.
      * Werner: Send out an invite for the meeting. 
        Sent out a poll to find a time slot:   https://rallly.co/invite/1c8J3azXAcje
  * 2024-05-01
    *  Nick Van Der Harst volunteered for Dutch. "gogo gogo" would like to translate to Russian(?)
  * 2024-01-10
        * Nico: (https://review.coreboot.org/q/topic:enforce_region_api)
    * Daniel: Look at how we want to localize (non console) strings for coreboot. Long term project.

## Minutes

## [Sheng/Chris] Promote Liu Shuo to be core developer
  * He has shown great progress in leading and helping coreboot Xeon patches together with the community
    * Stats for the past 2 years: 
      Commits: 96 (10th most commits overall) 
      Reviews: 139 
      Comments: 118
    * Worked together with community to upstream GNR patches and cleaned up many Eagle Stream coreboot mess
    * Able to address most of reviewers feedback and make the code better, understand coreboot practices, and also produces patches with good code quality.
    * Author of
(https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Data-Center/Advancing-O...)
    * Will have bigger responsibility to maintain and drive the Xeon coreboot works.
    * There have been no objections.
  * Decision: Liu Shuo has been promoted as a core developer.

### [Martin] How do we want to handle platforms that don’t have a public FSP/openSIL or other binaries.
  * We definitely don’t want to make it mandatory to have the binaries available to have the code in
the coreboot repo.
  * We could make a blog post listing platforms that don’t have a public FSP and request that
something be released.

### [Alicja] Plans to have a new mainboard porting guide later this month

### [Alijca] Refactor fallback mechanism to use more modern parts of vboot.
  * [David] We've had a fallback mechanism since early on, however it may be stale by now e.g. due to
usage of CMOS variables and whatnot. A more modern approach that removes any dependency on things
like counters maintained in certain types of memory would be nice, similar to vboot itself which
was designed to not rely on any specific implementation from silicon vendors.

# Next Leadership Meeting
  * January 22,2025.
  * [coreboot Calendar](https://coreboot.org/calendar.html).

# Notice
  * Decisions shown here are not necessarily final, and are based on the current information
available. If there are questions or comments about decisions made, or additional information to
present, please put it on the leadership meeting agenda and show up if possible to discuss it. 
Of course items may also be discussed on the mailing list, but as it's difficult to interpret tone
over email, controversial topics frequently do not have good progress in those discussions. For
particularly difficult issues, it may be best to try to schedule another meeting.

# coreboot leadership meeting minutes
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