openSUSE Release Engineering minutes October 29

How to join the meeting?
https://calendar.opensuse.org/teams/release/events/opensu...
https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting

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

## Attendees: DocB, ddemaio, jimedrand, ana, dimstar, santi

## openSUSE Tumbleweed (ana)
openSUSE:Factory build fail stats:  26 failed 25 unresolvable ( last
week: 39 failed, 8 unresolvable) =>
 openSUSE:Factory:Rebuild shows what would happen if we do a full
rebuild: ~337 fails, ~34 unresolvables; many are still GCC15 things
not addressed in the devel projects

~496  requests accepted in the last week (data source:
https://build.opensuse.org/projects/openSUSE:Factory/pulse)

Linux Kernel 6.17.4 &  6.17.5

Linux Kernel Longterm 6.12.55

Plasma 6.5.0

Mesa 25.2.5

bind 9.20.15

VirtualBox 7.2.4

libinput 1.29.2

gpg2 2.5.13

graphviz 14.0.0

unbound 1.24.1

Chromium 141.0.7390.122

changes in lua interpreter:

luajit implementation has changed to openresty fork (formerly luajit2 package)

dropping lua51-* packages (some unresolvables because this)



Coming soon:

 PCRE2  10.47

java-25-openjdk by default for x86_64 (i586 stays with java-21-openjdk)

doxygen 1.15.0

Dominique: does 32bit part cover Arm as well. Ana: no, only 32-bit x86
port. (follow up if there are problems with Guillaume is back)


 Blocked / on-going:

lua51-* modules update and switch to luajit from openresty

swig 4.4.0: breaks subversion

valkey 9.0.0: breaks python-redis:test

wireshark 4.6.0: breaks libvirt

gc and xkeyboard-config: both break python-matplotlib (boo#1252721)

openSSL 3.6.0: missing fix for nodejs22

transactional-update switching on soft-reboot: QA changes pending

Set grub2-bls as default bootloader, staging F, tests update ongoing
(see Santi's openqa status)


Jim: Was deepin removed from Tumbleweed? It's a popular desktop in China
Dominique
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.op...
https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-r...

## Guillaume - Arm
NOT AVAILABLE

## Sarah - s390x

Not available

## Leap and Package HUB

SLES 16.1 engineering kickoff on Nov 4th. Leap 16.1 will follow some
time after. Roadmap TBD.

People reporting issues with ventoy ... we did some public statements
on social media saying that 3rd party tool modifying our images is
something we are not supporting. But it throws us into a bad light as
people typically don't mention I used ventoy and image is not booting.
They start with My take on Leap 16.0 ... image did not boot.
lkocman: I did reach out to Ventoy team, about potential collaboration
on making ventoy experience better (e.g. early testing and reporting
issues etc).

Max: Be aware that a lot of legacy systems will have boot issues as
well (aside from ventoy issues).

leap-16.1 branch has been created in the pool project for the relevant
package, as well as leap-16.1 branch was there for the project already

set up openSUSE:Backports:SLE-16.1 and openSUSE:Leap:16.1 project on
OBS is the next step


## Project Enablement (Doug)

* Leap 16

* Article views 11,670

*  survey complete

* Published consultant use case article
* FrOSCon reached out about sponsoring
* Will publish TW article
* Will publish Hack Week article
* Open Developers Summit 2026

* 10 Registration, 10 Submissions

* April 23 (CfP ends Feb. 14)

* openSUSE America Summit

* Setup summit on events.o.o.

* Colombia has begun

* FOSDEM (31.01.26 - 01.02.26)

* Contact ddemaio@opensuse.org to sign up for bus to/from NUE to Brussels

* GSoC

* Mentors Summit complete

* Finals start

* 4 due by Sept. 8 (4 of 4 passed)

* 1 due by Sept. 22 (1 of 1 passed)

* 1 due by Oct. 20 (1 of 1 passed)

* 1 due by Nov. 3 (due Monday)

* Aiming for decision about oSC26 in January or February at latest

* Waiting on another possible option

* Current possibilities

* Z-Bau (Nürnberg):

* June 24–27 (possible)

* August 19–22 (possible)

* University in Prague:

* July 9–11 (possible)

* July 16–18 (possible)

* first week of July occupied by architectural exhibition


lkocman: RPi5 article - RPI5 starter set sent to LowTechLinux
lkocman: SWAG order for Czechia conferences from inetprint (6
distribution-logo based t-shirts, bags). Engraved pencils and nice
openSUSE logo-less snapbacks.

## Maintenance (Marcus, Robert)

git merge in leap-16.0 branch with factory branch in
src.opensuse.org/pool/$package
And make a pull request against leap-16.0 branch in pool. Same GA
project/branch is used also for maintenance.

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_for_Leap
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Git_Packaging_Workflow

## Santiago - openQA
- Grub2-bls is slowly moving forward
- Waiting for reviews of the Leap 16 maintenance bot:
https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSE-release-tools/pull/3271
    - Needs to be deployed
    - Some staged updates are already approved, products/PackageHub
and openSUSE/LeapNonFree are working fine
    - Some updates are showing less packages in the patch than those
available, currently being looked at

## Adrian - OBS

Marcus Meissner pointed me to the fact that $arch specific repodata
did not have the patchinfo metadata. The patch to product-composer is
on the way.

Jim: Can we have a new OBS release based on Leap 16.0.

## Bernhard - Slowroll

No update on Slowroll.

## Bernhard - reproducible builds

Sends greetings from  reproducible builds conference.

## Adam -- Git Workflow

* moved bot sources to https://src.opensuse.org/git-workflow/autogits
* adding handling for .gitmodules conflicts -- important for projects
that add/rm packages via PRs

Adrian: the .gitmodules conflicts could be a local tool? (Adrian/Adam
please correct me here).
Adam: will add it to utilities subpackage

## Richard (Aeon+botmaster+tik/SLES 16.1)

## Open Floor