openSUSE Release Engineering minutes March 5

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https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting

All meeting minutes can be found here:
https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/ReleaseEngineering-meeting

## Attendees: Sarah, ana, richardm GuillaumeG, DimStar, Wolfgang, max


## Leap

Leap 16.0 - working offline image including signed repodata < 4GB at
the moment.
https://build.opensuse.org/build/openSUSE:Leap:16.0/produ...

Still pending first draft of Leap 16.0 RN in
https://github.com/SUSE/release-notes
Server pattern work TBD

Leap Micro 6.2 Alpha has green, including communication stating
expected GA in Nov 2025.

Ordering 25 openSUSE branded flash drivers for the Leap 16.0 install
workshop at https://installfest.cz/if25/

Package Hub discussion on SLFO talk regarding quilt and other dev
tools which are not shipped in SLES 16

Latest openSUSE-repos contains enablement for zypp's parallel
downloads. Problems with sudo zypper since it skips
/etc/profile.d/opensuse_repos.sh. Article tbd

## openSUSE Tumbleweed (ana)
openSUSE:Factory build fail stats: 89 failed 28 unresolvable ( last
week:  68 failed, 12  unresolvable)
=> Failures increased due to boost update to 1.87.0

~616 requests accepted in the last week (data source:
https://build.opensuse.org/projects/openSUSE:Factory/pulse)

Most relevant updates accepted,  in no particular order:

Linux Kernel 6.13.5

Linux Kernel Longterm 6.12.17

cmake  3.31.6

e2fsprogs 1.47.2

glibc 2.41

python-setuptools 75.8.0

shadow 4.17.3

Plasma 6.3.2(.1)

boost 1.87.0 by default

rust 1.85 by default

libzypp 17.36.4 && zypper 1.14.87

mdadm 4.4

agama 12.0


  Blocked / on-going:

Moving to Python313 by default, work in progress Staging A (ceph
fixed, python313 update this morning to remove cycle).  Please: update
all your python packages failing to build at this moment.

selinux-policy 20250303, needs openQA test update
https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/178240

gcc15, packaging work started, see Staging F; will be implemented in 2
phases: 1) provide the libaries like libgcc_s1 and such, using them as
default 2) switch the compiler itself to gcc 15. Phase 2 will probably
be around May 2025

Update to glibc 2.41: two packages left (dpdk boo#1237602 and qemu boo#1237603)

crypto-policy (~8 build failures,
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1245723)  Working on it out of
staging


## Richard (Aeon+botmaster+tik)

Still Working on having tik deploying OCI images
Impeded by the fact that OCI images are great for downloading and
building but not great for directly distributing - an OCI tarball on
an image needs to then take up more than the same amount of space
again to import the OCI tarball into your container runtime before you
can use it for anything

## Max

Leap 16.0
* 6009 packages in Leap 16.0, 820 pending SRs(was 5970 packages in
Leap 16.0, 862 pending SRs)
* The offline medium have shronk the size from terrible ~50GB to
~3.5GB, we need a way to recalcualte the required pacakgelist for
offline medium(like pkglistgen did according to the defiend pacakge
group in 000package-groups), we might need another tool and borrow
some code from pkglsitgen
* Swap out the purpose of 000productcompose and 000productcompose.all
(should we rename .all to .media?)
Max: I'm fine with the renaming, if you want we can also do
000productcompose.ftp and 000productcompose.media :)
** 000productcompospe is going to build ftp-tree;
000productcompose.all is going to build offline installer
* The experiment of the nonfree tree integration was happening at
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Leap:16....
* WIP on a packagelist arranger for oss and non-oss tree build in productcompose

## Guillaume - Arm

Tumbleweed:
    * Rolling again, snapshot 20250302 includes glibc 2.41

Leap 15.6:
    * Problems on RPi4 with very long boot and keyboard unrecognized
with latest rapsberrypi-eeprom update (update taken from TW) -
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1230104

Leap 16.0 dev:
    * No blocker


## Doug

Not available

* Early Adopter Tech Summit 14.03.25

* Registrations 24

* Social Media posts about talks and thanking sponsors

* openSUSE Conference (26.06.25 to 28.06.25 at Z-Bau)

* Registrations 28, Submissions 15

* Will publish tw monthly
* Marketing material

* Received some

* Shipping package for event

* Prep for summit and booth at SUSECON
* Updating copyright years on websites
* Meeting with Cybersecurity GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance)

1. persons with experience as board members

2. active community members and Tammo

3. persons who know how we support them from an infrastructure
perspective  and people from finance

4. persons with legal view on this topic

* GSoC

* List of accepted mentoring organizations to be published Feb. 27

* Outreachy

* Submitted application. Will pull back if no interest

* If anyone is willing to mentor for this program, contact ddemaio

* https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2025-01-20/june-2025-call-...

question - is https://github.com/openSUSE/status.o.o correct for status.o.o

## Dirk

Not available

## Maintenance (Marcus, Robert)

Not available

## Wolfgang (Package Hub), Scott Bahling, Nathan Cutler

- Fixed pubkey issue with SP7
- Working on Package Hub for SLE-16 (building as multibuild in Leap
16), Nathan is generating a package list (PH = Leap - SLE - kernel
modules and Leap branding packages)
- SUSE or SLE product packages not beeing shipped in Package Hub ?
- Live Patching ?


## Adrian - OBS

No update for this week

## Bernhard - Slowroll

rolling normally.  20250302 taken as next snapshot - to be released on Monday
We might get new openQA tests soon.
Some agama-Slowroll tests exist in the Devel section.

## Bernhard - reproducible builds

Good progress on SLE16 reproduciblity. ~15 issues left.

## Adam - Git Workflow
We started moving devel projects to Git this week.. So far 1 done this
week -- we discovered a minor tech issue.
   https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OBS_to_Git

https://opensuse-commander.readthedocs.io/en/readthedocs-test/git-obs-quickstart.html
should help users in the migration.

Note: osc packages are not disappearing. You can still see `osc log`
and use checkout older revisions. Git sourced revisions are populated
as new revisions of packages.

Remember: login to src.opensuse.org as otherwise you will not have an
account and repository permissions cannot be assigned for you.

## Sarah - s390x
Tumbleweed:
    * no releases because of GNOME problems at the moment
    -> Sarah will fix it this week
    * downgraded Mesa because of bug:
     https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233167 (IBM
Developer tried to build Mesa rpm for openSUSE on Fedora first, then
using osc in a Tumbleweed container)
     -> Will be discussed next week in the Linux Distributions Working Group

Free IBM Z Day event (online), 08th April 2025:
https://ibmzday2025-se.bemyapp.com/
-> also user accounts without any IBM related customer contract
possible (choose openSUSE in combination of IBM (open source)
partnership)

## Open Floor