openSUSE Release Engineering minutes April 9

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

## Attendees:

lkocman, guillaumeg, DimStar, rbrown, ana, bmwiedemann,
wengel,RichardR,max, ddemaio


## Leap

openQA reneedled for Agama 13
https://agama-project.github.io/blog/2025/04/08/agama-13

Seems like the ARM Uefi boot
https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/4979666#step/first_boot/5
guillaume: Looks like https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/180140

Agreement on openQA workshop on osc with Santi and HuHa. Plan is to
let "users" fix the broken (TBD) "standalone" Myrlin test suite. We
should have one anyway

cleanup of download-o-o (Lubos did a fresh mirror sync)
Removal of anything "openSUSE-Aeon" (while we want to keep Aeon), "*Kubic*"

## openSUSE Tumbleweed (ana)
openSUSE:Factory build fail stats:  46 failed 32 unresolvable ( last
week:  50 failed, 17  unresolvable)

~803 requests accepted in the last week (data source:
https://build.opensuse.org/projects/openSUSE:Factory/pulse)

Most relevant updates accepted,  in no particular order:

Plasma 6.3.4

Linux Kernel Longterm Linux 6.12.21

Qt 6.9.0

Gtk4 4.18.4

QEMU 9.2.3

expat 2.7.1

GNU awk 5.3.2

libxml2 2.13.7

meson 1.7.1

btrfsprogs 6.14

php8 8.4.5

poppler 25.04.0

ghostscript 10.05.0

libtheora 1.2.0

Mozilla Firefox 137.0

Mozilla Thunderbird ESR 128.9.1

Firefox ESR 128.9.0

Chromium 135.0.7049.52


  Blocked / on-going:

GCC15 as default compiler
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:...

fixes continue arriving

Deprecation of PCRE in favour of PCRE2, see discussion and latest updates

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.op...

5 updates remaining: blender, deepin-file-manager, leafnode, qore, qemu

https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/pcre2

Removal of gnu-HPC builds https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239982 DONE

almost all packages are now updated and submitted to staging

people still using the hpc macros should clean up the packages,
they're not guaranteed to work

Python setuptools update to 78.0 (staging C)

blocked by new rpmlint error in ceph

cmake 4.0, still not submitted but packages updated on-going



## Richard (Aeon+botmaster+tik)

New Aeon website launched at aeondesktop.org (Thanks LCP!)

botmaster had minor issues at the weekend after Build Service
performance issues locked many pipelines. Addressed manually

tik OCI deployment has been demoed to a team within SUSE with an eye
of adoption in their product. Regardless, it's being considered for
Aeon also to facilitate easier factory reset approaches.

All known installer / sdbootutil issues have been fixed

Aeon/Tumbleweed-with-systemd-boot updates currently blocked by
kernel-* packages not being updated in the correct order alongside
systemd-boot/udev. Attempted to contribute the change to our kernel
team but radio silence so far.

## Max

Leap 16
* The Leap and Backports project restructuing was done, the most of
package are built in openSUSE:Backports:SLE-16.0, Leap specific, KMP,
and any other particular pacakge are built in
openSUSE:Leap:16.0(Controled by BuildFlags). The change has submit to
openSUSE:Leap:16.0 only still.
lkocman: the main reason is the need for usage of a Backports signing
key, right?
* There is a new build after the reconstruction, it has an known issue
during zdup therefore the new build will not be published
* KDE in Leap 16 broke down due to package removal in SLFO, packages
need add to Leap, before this issue got fixed we won't have a
successful product build.


## Guillaume - Arm

Tumbleweed:
    * snapshot 20250407 skipped due to kde live and lxqt not
installable. Should be fixed in next snapshot.
    * Ring1:
        ** liburing: fix for aarch64 is on the way to Factory
        ** mariadb fails in unit.conc_async test -
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1236823

Leap 16.0 dev:
    * See Leap 16 section above

## Doug

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

* Registrations 52, Submissions 37

* Video team to prep equipment

* Do we put oSC posters on universities in NUE, Erlangen? I'd love to
see some new faces on workshops etc.

* Tariff article published
* Sent marketing material for event in Italy
* Still trying to resolve funding hold ups, but looks like this is
almost complete
* GSoC

* Received 35 submissions

* Pinging some people about proposals that came in to see if they were
interested in mentoring the project/s

* Going through ranking process

* Proposal Ranking Deadline (April 29)


## Dirk

Not available

## Maintenance (Marcus, Robert)

nothing to report

chromium taken care of, xfce update in the work

Lubos will reach out to chromium maintainers regarding potential
inclusion in Leap 16.0 for Public Beta.

Just to repeat from last time:
Leap 16.0 will use the new maintenance model after the successful
switch to git (with Factory), which should happen about a month after
Leap 16.0 turns Beta.
Adrian: confirmed that old-style workflow would not work anyway. Aim
should be for a single workflow.

Nathan / PH question for maintenance setup:
Leap 16.0 - updateinfo support with product-composer
Can we expect zypper patch working in Leap 16.0. I recall we've had
discussions whether not to keep only the latest version of a package
in the repo and similar.

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

Preparing Package Hub for SLES-16.0 to be available thru SCC
(following new process on src.suse.de to add Package Hub product to
SCC).

gnome-software doesn't recognize SCC based repos as "listed" source
for packages. So they do not show up.
lkocman: will add Leap + Package HUB (once created) repos from SCC to
gnome-software.

## Adrian - OBS

Not available.
Dominique: Adrian was asking about unsupported modules.
lkocman: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239986

Max: once we switch to git, where do we find sources for 16.0 in gitea.
The current Leap 16 packages already diverged from Factory.  Will
there be any branch in Pool organization?
Adrian: It will be handled on package per package basis. So no need to
worry about diverging.
Max: there are some packages that are not in Factory (or never were).

## Bernhard - Slowroll

April TW snapshot 20250402 gets released today

DocB: Please wait for Plasma 6.3.4! Currently Plasma crashes on each
file dialog = https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501688

plasma 6.3.4 will be added via update repo.

https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/131 now auto-tests new DVD
isos thanks to Felix

## Bernhard - reproducible builds
sent
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.op...

## Adam - Git Workflow
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OBS_to_Git migration is continuing.

Preparing Factory Git project to allow for testing of automation.
That was exactly one of gsoc topics

## Santiago - openQA
Not available


## Sarah - s390x
Not available


## Open Floor