All meeting minutes can be found here: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/ReleaseEngineering-meeting The meeting is hosted here https://meet.opensuse.org/ReleaseEngineeringMeeting ## Attendees RBrown, DimStar, GuillaumeG, lkocman, AdrianS, Doug, Max, wengel We tried https://meet-test.opensuse.org/ReleaseEngineeringMeeting so far it was a pleasant experience ## Leap 15.4 QU2 rc3 go/nogo was on 1st March. We do have Leap 15.4 CR DVD in the :Images subproject. Do we have a particular need to republish now? Leap 15.5 Beta testing sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AGKijKpKiJCB616-bHVoNQuhWHpQLHPWCb3m... Discussion about how to build Package Hub for 15 SP6, SP7 https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/ReleaseEngineering-20230228-Packagehub No negative feedback so far. I think we have a plan. Leap 16.0 d-installer media built https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSE-repos/pull/24 ftp-tree is pending Putting high level requirements for Alpha. I think I could have something usable by end of this week. https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:16.0 ## openSUSE Tumbleweed openSUSE:Factory build fail stats: 173 failed 96 unresolvable (one week ago: 188 / 134) https://tinyurl.com/ysy4nnnz * Mesa 23.0 was published; some bug reports attributed gnome crashes to it https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1209005 * ffmpeg-6 appeared in staging, conflicts hard with ffmpeg 5 (same library names, overwriting the old ones) We might try to change to ffmpeg-6 by default (with ffmpeg-4 as fallback) and not offer ffmpeg-5 at all * Staging:L has a few failures collected: * podman 4.4.2: breaks in openQA https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/3160256#step/podman_pods/52 (QA fix in progress) * Staging:O: preparation work to identify the minimal list of 'i586' builds to enable in openSUSE:Factory to allow wine/steam to build/install (currently 992 packages, and counting; big part of it is for rpmlint and such things). We will likely have to get wine into ring0 to keep this list actively managed * Staging:Gcc7: early experiments to set GCC 13 as distro compiler i586 carve-out from Factory => Automatic migration kicked off with snapshot 0201. Rolling again; the kdeplasma crash has been resolved (changes in libqt5) (https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208188) ## Richard (MicroOS) Making an official Distrobox 'Packaging' container, to provide packagers and release managers a nice simple reproducable environment with everything you need to package stuff. Currently in testing, will be submitted today. New Kubernetes maintainer is updating/improving the k8s packages in Tumbleweed, along with a growth of additional community contributions. Working on a pair of blogposts, most likely for microos.opensuse.org 1. "MicroOwnS" - a guide, with simple-to-copy templates on how to make your own derivatives of MicroOS. Expected to publish today/tomorrow 2. "How to fork MicroOS" - building on "MicroOwnS", a more complex guide on how to make de-branded forks of MicroOS - both still WIP Desktop-GNOME: Ready for Release, but not released Technically everything is working and release quality in MicroOS GNOME. NO KNOWN BLOCKERS! \o/ - but we did fix a bunch of minor things this week Not yet formally released Tests are needed - progress made, but I got a little sidetracked this week PR/Marketing needed Desktop-KDE: Still Alpha, discussions about maybe considering it Beta, in the hands of the (lone) main maintainer. Lots of discussions on social media/reddit about MicroOS KDE but has not yet translated into an uptick in contributions or contributors. ## Max Leap 15.5 * Build423.1 has published ** An known system hang issue during textmode installation: bsc#1208266 * KDE staging passed legal review, now lets wait submissions of the dependency to be accepted in SLE * Build stats in Backports(x86_64): 2 unresolvables, 48 fails(last week: 10 unresolvables, 51 fails) * MATE desktop issue (there was a related thread on factory@) ## Guillaume - Arm Tumbleweed: * Last snapshot blocked due to broken zdup detected in openQA. Next snapshot (20230307) will fix it. * Non-OSS repo is not published for ARM whereas openSUSE:Factory:ARM:NonFree is OK - https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209031 * NVIDIA: tester with aarch64 server and NVIDIA card wanted - Proprietary drivers are now available for aarch64 (only G06): https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed/ - New opengpu driver also available in OBS: https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor/X11:Drivers:Video lkocman to check on who is the aarch64 + nvidia effort blocked on. I recall that there was a chosen point of contact. Leap: * 15.5 aarch64: JeOS images rebased on latest version from Tumbleweed. * 15.5 armv7: no blocker ALP: * No aarch64 specific issues WSL: * Works with x86 emulator since appx installer is x86-64, but this is not really an issue since arm64 Win11 includes x86 emulator by default. Steps documented on the wiki to install the appx from download.o.o: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:WSL#With_Appx_from_openSUSE_download_server ## Sarah - s390x Not available Tumbleweed * release is rolling Leap: * bootloader issue after network configuration in textmode -> I will analyze kernel configuration suggestions by IBM: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1188896 lkocman: Should I share it with Virt team + Ihno? How to handle qemu/kernel bug report (handled by SUSE in the past): https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202727 other output than on x86 for backup software restic: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208665 -> forwarded as upstream issue (with hint, how to receive a s390x vm by IBM) ## Doug * TW x86-64-v3 optimization article recieved increase attention * Note - metrics.opensuse.org fixed (thx witek & bmwiedemann) good increase * Google Summer of Code * April 27 deadline - GSoC contributor proposal rankings due from Org Admins * oSC23 * Contract signed an returned * Meeting on 30.03 * 56 registered, 26 submissions * Sent marketing items to Italy for event * TSP approval * Will not be in next week's meeting * Recieved interest in an interview about MicroOS from Steven Rosenberg ## Dirk Not available * Back from sickleave/vacation, catching up with submissions/issues * x86_64-v3 glibc pattern entered Factory. Need to announce properly and do further packages * also todo announce tumbleweed maintainer policy draft currently working on testing those in a private staging test project * x86_64-v3 enablement on some packages failed due to baselibs conflicts over -static packages which need further updates * Started ALP:RISCV builds in the new build setup Biggest speedup can be observed by switching zlib to zlib-ng, so looked into fixing the build failures caused by switching to zlibo-ng- compat ## Wolfgang (Package Hub), Scott Bahling Old packages from SP4 where synced to CDN for openSUSE:Backports:SLE- 15-SP5, this is fixed now and SP5 packages are now available One of php8 packages built in SUSE:SLE* is missing in Leap https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207478 ## Maintenance team (Marcus or Maurizio (m4u)) Not available 15.5 setup is done 15.4 is working 5.3 is working leap micro 5.2 ... when EOL? Lubos? With Leap Micro 5.4 GA Typically April, we'll see based on SLE Micro GA. 15.5 setup is done (status 21.2.2023). lkocman needs to do official 15.5 Maint setup request beta in ~2 weeks lkocman: 15.3 EOL could lead to stopping our physical Source DVD effort, as it seems we will not produce. As this was the last release which you could still get on a physical media. Lkocman: anything against decomissioning it? Configuration setup problem for Maintenance of Leap 15.4 maintenance updates / openQA Marcus regarding Leap 15.4 Image respin - package set will change, we do need to refresh the packagelist * Lubos to talk to Jan Stehlik, we can't put all on Marcuses shoulder. https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/ReleaseEngineering-20221110-maintenance-disc... Confirmation that QA/QA-maint team will oversee the setup (issues) Lubos: I was asked to provide requirements for the QA team. Mostly for the GA/current release but also for the update. Lubos will make wiki with requirements (something like maintenance plan perhaps). Marcus will review it. * Leap Micro 5.3 maint setup done ffmpeg - (still unsolved) possible file conflict on the next update, no idea how to avoid vendor switching at the moment. Removing the patch on the openSUSE side (that might contain security fixes) or releasing update on the packman side could fix the issue. Lubos to give Marcus some working contact for the team. (Was done, Olaf Hering) ## Adrian - OBS No updates today