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 bittin, anag, lkocman, DimStar, Adrian, Doug, bmwiedemann, guillaume_g, maxlin, Sarah, Gerald, wengel ## Leap Public holiday in Czechia on Fri 17th Dolomite and Marble will have parallel availability, we still plan to support Leap Micro 5.5 until October 2024. Let's revisit what "container hosts" we plan to make available to community. Qt5/6 stack update: Antonio was working yesterday to get stagings in SLES into a shape. Initial discussion with Sergio (Dolomite PM) a meeting tomorrow around noon CET. Max found that our last build 553.1 was not published, probably due to a download-o-o migration. I already dropped an email to Autobuild. I was really happy to see 6 openSUSE related talks on openALT in a city that's usually painted red! Calendaring solution for openSUSE is coming! ## openSUSE Tumbleweed (ana) openSUSE:Factory build fail stats: 49 failed 4 unresolvable (~2-3 weeks ago: 49 failed, 33 unresolvable) https://tinyurl.com/ysy4nnnz Things slowed down this weekend because Issues with OBS publishing during the weekend. Most relevant updates this last ~ 2 weeks week: * GNOME 45.1 * libxml 2.11.5 * Linux Kernel 6.6 * binutils 2.41 * KDE Gear 23.08.3 * Mozilla Firefox 119.0.1 * postgresql 16.1 * cmake 3.27.7 * HPC stack: Dropped openmpi1, openmpi2, openmpi3. Changes to ease eventual transition to openmpi5 Updates waiting in staging: * dbus-broker as default dbus session manager * RPM 4.19 (work on going, %patch with unnumbered patches is not supported from this version on) * Lots of rubygem updates * fmt 10 (stuck since months ago because mariadb problems to build on i586) ## Richard (Aeon) Not available ## Bernhard (Slowroll) Continues to roll Slowly, sometimes has dependency problems -> need install-check *soon version bump but OBS issues Adrian: (Could you please add your concern here Adrian?) source-based Slowroll needs extra build power causes extra downloads for users switching between Tumbleweed <=> Slowroll Bernhard: three open issues in OBS bugtracker osc rdiff + osc getbinaries + building DVD with product-builder does not work with TWsnapshot+dod approach = https://github.com/openSUSE/slowroll/issues/1 https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/issues/14994 osc branch -r release counter reset https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/issues/15079 causes spurious "downgrades" missing build-compare causes extra publishes https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/issues/15108 ## Max Leap 15.6 (build stats in Backports: 25 failed, 3 unresolvable) * Fixed python3-extras problem in ftp-tree, virtualization openqa test passed * Merged plasma 5.27.9 from Backports:SLE-15-SP5:Update * Submitted NonFree update from Factory NonFree * Leap has publishing issue, per DimStar, Marco will check that ## Guillaume - Arm * Tumbleweed: - Blocked after the week-end becauseof openQA: openqaworker-arm22 was broken (auto-update removed a pile of packages, including qemu!) which messed up all the Arm tests - https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/150845 - snapshot 20231114 should be out later today with kernel 6.6 - WIP to get Tumbleweed to run on Lenovo X13s. DVD boots ok, but still few bugs preventing to boot installed system from USB (ok on NVMe). * Leap 15.6/Backports SP6: - gnome-apps failing to build causes issue on most architectures: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1216184#add_comment ## Sarah - s390x * Tumbleweed * builds are successfully, but the mainframe is missing behind openQA :( https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/137408 News related to s390x: LLVM has been updated related to OpenMP for s390x lkocman: A new s390x contact on SUSE Side (Marcela Maslanova). lkocman to drop an introduction email to Sarah ## Doug * Logo contest progressing well https://en.opensuse.org/Logocontest * Vote structure set to begin on Nov. 23 and run for 2 weeks * lkocman in contact with Spencer Davis (head of brand @SUSE) regarding derivative work of the current SUSE logo. I still expect that team might submit a "contestant" on behalf of themselves. Otherwise I have a candidate based on the SUSE logo ready to submit to the contest. * Use cases survey published * Working on TSP payments with finance due international payments * Shipped marketing material * Moderator Awareness Training today * AKA session planned for Thursday at 19:00 UTC before community meeting * Phase 0 of Board elections starts - https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/5... * Started ticket on emails verification issues and infra aspects heroes are experiencing - issue was fixed 2023-11-14 * Doing ESG report * Open CFPs * Creative Freedom Summit (Deadline Nov. 24) https://creativefreedomsummit.com/call-for-papers-2024-creative-freedom-summ... Static * oSC24 dates June 27 to 29 reserved (Thursday - Saturday) * FOSDEM Bus * AI topics (static) * Nothing new ## Dirk Not available * usual bunch of factory package updates, supporting python 3.12 enablement ## Wolfgang (Package Hub), Scott Bahling Package Hub for SLE-15-SP6 ready for testing (available thru SCC) task for lkocman: The problem statement (SLES/SLED expectations) Draft to be composed here: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/packagehub-problem-statement ## Maintenance team (Marcus or Maurizio (m4u)) No issues. Internal request to add php8.1 to Package HUB. Regarding AMD issue, kernel update is scheduled for a second Tuesday of the month. https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215802 ## Adrian - OBS Looking into the publishing issue for 15.6 ## Simon (Leap Replacement/Linarite) Not available ## Open Floor Feel free to contact Emiel Brok if you think SUSE should be at your local conference and it's not the case. Early Enablement team invited Emiel as a guest to today's team meeting.