[coreboot] coreboot community meeting minutes for March 30th, 2017

Martin Roth gaumless at gmail.com
Fri Mar 31 17:46:32 CEST 2017


Here are the meeting minutes from yesterday's coreboot community meeting.
Info about the next meeting (Thursday, April 13) is at the bottom.

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Thursday, March 30th, 2017

General coreboot news & discussions
* AGESA updates by Kyösti
  - These need testing, so if you have an AGESA based board, please
try them on your board.
  - https://review.coreboot.org/#/q/status:open+project:coreboot+branch:master+topic:agesa-wrapper-killer
* TPM regression?
  - https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/102
  - https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/104
  - PhilippD (TPM area maintainer) is looking into these.
* Documentation license
  - For coreboot proper, coreboot leadership is leaning toward CC-BY,
to allow the widest distribution possible.  We're not worried about
copying things in from other places - those can be referenced on the
other websites.
  - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
  - CC-BY is a non-restrictive license, similar to a BSD license.
  - CC-BY-SA requires that the license not change, similar to GPL license
  - Each document is separate, not entangled like the source code, so
if we decided to change the license later, we can on an individual
basis.


Infrastructure Issues & News
* Next release 4.6 - Targeting April 17
  - Please test your boards
  - Please fix bugs https://ticket.coreboot.org
* Discussions about changing the CCM to a different conferences software.
  - We can revisit in November if desired.  Let's not change before then.
* More REACTS systems by Martin (License for 5)
  - Asus P5GC-MX
  - Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L
  - Next is AMD Mahogany F10h
* Jenkins is misbehaving - completed builds are not marking the
servers as being free, causing long delays in running the next build.
We're working on it.
* Software Freedom Conservancy admission still pending - working out
the governance details.
  - One hangup is the blobs directory.
* Working on a jenkins update to show which boards have been changed
by a patch. Waiting for jenkins issues to be fixed before moving on
with this.
* European coreboot conference
  - https://ecc2017.coreboot.org/
* Denver coreboot conference
  - Waiting for SFC so we can accept payments
* QUESTION: how many folks attend the coreboot conf usually?
  - Around 50 people max for Denver 2017 unless huge interest. Maybe
100 for the European coreboot conference.


Development
* flashrom git status?
  - Do we want to talk about flashrom in the coreboot community
meeting - Discuss this with flashrom crew.
 - Martin isn't positive, but thinks that we're waiting for StefanCT
to set up a build test at this point.
  - Stable branch in gerrit doesn't build (Intentionally)
  - I think "staging" does, but when a user clones the repo and types
"make" in the default "stable" branch it throws an error about needing
to use the upstream repo (on flashrom.org)
  - Can we push to staging now?
* Review of siro’s libpayload patches
  - Patches need reviewers
* checkpatch.pl clean-up going on nicely
  - Lee is done with his cleanup for now
  - Need to get rid of false positives (Update the script) before
turning it on in the builder.


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Next meeting is Thursday, April 13, 2017
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