All meeting minutes can be found here: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/ReleaseEngineering-meeting ## Participants dleuenberger,guillaumeg, bittin, skriesch, wengel, ddemaio, adrian, lkocman, dirk, maxlin, gp !!! Please be aware that this meeting is hosted on https://meet.opensuse.org/ReleaseEngineeringMeeting ## Leap SLE 15 SP3 has a confirmed GMC. We're close to our GM GM is currently scheduled for 21st May. GA then on 2nd June. Dimstar's maint SR for 15.3 was rejected. Lubos will look into bittin started translating the Release announcement for 15.3 into Swedish after the last meeting (about 97-98% done some words i am not sure how to best translate into Swedish): https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.3SV lkocman: Thank you bittin! still todo: Boothole (2) Leap 15.2 image-respin Discussion about getting rid of bottlenecks of getting changes into SLE ## openSUSE Tumbleweed * GNOME 40.1 published in snapshot 0506 * Plasma 5.21.5 also published in snapshot 0506 * Linux kernel 5.12.2, with kfence disabled, will be in snapshot 0511 * UsrMerge is 'ready' as per staging project; See https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/M... for information how to test (careful: once added, there is no plan to opt out again). So far no test-failures were reported. We plan on enabling that together with the switch to GCC 11 as default compiler * GCC 11 as the default compiler is being tested in Staging:N; a few more build failures to address ## Richard (Kubic/TW MicroOS) Go 1.16 as default (and other golang-related updates, eg helm) blocked by https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/882556 - JeffK and I would appreciate any contributions to get cilium building with Go 1.16 Kubernetes 1.21 and updates for 1.18, 1.19 and 1.20 all released (Minor issue preventing access to 1.20.6 containers fix WIP) Experiments started on a MicroOS build optimised for Rancher use cases MicroOS Desktop (GNOME) Beta has been released, some pattern tuning identified before it can be considered production ready. Improvements to firstboot wizard otw to make it more resiliant to complex network arrangements. Talks about MicroOS Desktop (GNOME) and Rancher-optimised Kubic submitted to oSC ## Max * Multiple keys have to be loaded for rpm verification while zypper dup, merged instsource-susedata and product-builder plugin, on the latest Leap build that gpgkey was listed in the repomd.xml/tags/content * Switched to use pool-leap-15.3 repo in Backports * Waiting for https://build.suse.de/request/show/240869 to be released, it should fix the remaining unresolvables in Backports project ## Guillaume - Arm Reworked some wiki pages related to Arm. Tumbleweed: * obs-arm-{1,2,3} take ages to build chromium and libreoffice hangs on those workers, so maybe blacklist chromium and libreoffice on those workers? Leap 15.3: * aarch64: * Still not able to build locally (osc build --vm-type=kvm) for aarch64 with a Tumbleweed host. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1183653 * ksh update blocked despite multiple pings from Wolfgang to maintainers: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/883289 Wolfgang will ping the maintainer directly * PARSEC update blocked (due to license check?): https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/889539 Lubos to talk to legal And other 3 remaining legal-review pending requests please * Armv7: * Next snapshot will fix the NET ISO hanging in linuxrc (in hardware detection), but it complains later in YaST installer because it is unable to find base products to install. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1183795#c15 (last time checked on Leap) * ISO/repo are published at http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/distribution/leap/15.3/ * JeOS moved to :15.3:ARM:Images sub-project, openQA is also setup. Waiting for a first snapshot of JeOS to be pushed. More AArch64 hardware for OBS have been ordered. They will support 32- bit but only for user-space, so no 32-bit kernel in qemu which needs some updates/tests in OBS. (OBS team is on it already). ETA: ~1 month. WSL: New hire Scott started last week. and getting used to OpenQA and such WSL: Stalled: WIP to have WSL on aarch64 on https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:Guillaume_G:WSL The goal is to have WSL-DistroLauncher package built for aarch64. Help welcomed. SUSE is currently interviewing candidates for the WSL Engineering post. So far Jeff is still the only person working on the Engineering efforts (native kiwi support, and some current WSL build blockers on SLE). Lubos is currently considering a hackweek project for WSL / aarch64. This is currently the plan. ## Sarah - s390x * Updated zSystems wiki page with container topics and new packaging topics * Planning of openSUSE Kubic topics incl. containers as next additional steps Tumbleweed: * Failed test after installation of PostgreSQL server because of active binary can not be found: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185952 ## Doug * Publishing Shells partnership announcement tomorrow. Will be at LAS with shells * openSUSE Conference (June 18 - 20) * Next Meeting (every Tuesday at 18:00 UTC on meet.o.o. & discord) * Next Video team meeting May 21 * Registration 123, Unconfirmed Talks 16 * Half the scheduling is complete * Announcement 1 for armv7 complete ## Dirk Filesystem directory permission hardening + fallout openSUSE Leap 15.3/step related installation failures are now recorded in https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:repo-checker/rebuilds Started to analyze a come of failures Focus on armv6/v7 build failure fixes on Tumbleweed (nodejs, various pandoc) Frontrunner Fallout is now 225 failures (149 failures last week), to be analyzed and fixed. (x86_64 only) Dirk: I'd really appreciate some help to get this down to a manageable number such as 20 or so. ## Gerald No update. ## Wolfgang (Package Hub), Scott Bahling no update ## Adrian - CtLG or openSUSE Step No update today. Leap 15.3 GA is scheduled for 2nd June. ftp-publishing for armv7/ports, could be set up today. Guillaume and Dirk agree to release the build. However we want to wait for announcement until we have a working ARMv7 build. Discussions about OpenSUSE 15.2 Leap (Boothole 2 Respin). Lubos: let's use respin as part of the subproject name. Lubos to create subproject, and will update the existing mailing list thread.