openSUSE Release Engineering minutes November 19

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

## Attendees:
    Sarah, DimStar, Ana, Max, Bernhard,ddemaio, Lubos, jimedrand

Hello we all received a recognition:

Congratulations - Tan Néau has sent you a Shout-out to show their appreciation.
You were acknowledged for exemplifying the SUSE value of Innovation,
and the message is below:
Thank you, and the extended openSUSE team, for making users' lives
easier with a flexible and powerful yet seamless installation
experience! Using it is a breeze too!
Gratitude from a happy user :)

*** Hack Week is Dec. 1 - 5, so the meeting on Dec. 3 is cancelled.***

## openSUSE Tumbleweed (ana)
openSUSE:Factory build fail stats:  12 failed 8 unresolvable ( last
week: 22 failed, 12 unresolvable)


~549  requests accepted in the last week (data source:
https://build.opensuse.org/projects/openSUSE:Factory/pulse)

Linux Kernel Longterm 6.12.58

coreutils 9.9

crypto-policies 20250714

libxcrypt 4.5.2

KDE Frameworks 6.20.0

GStreamer 1.26.8

pipewire 1.5.83 (1.6 RC3)

Mesa 25.2.7

mozjs140 140.5.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 140.5.0 ESR

Mozilla Firefox 145.0

glycin 2.0.7


Coming soon:

Mesa 25.3.0

cockpit 351

openvswtich  3.6.1

openexpr 3.4.3

Chromium 142.0.7444.175


 Blocked / on-going:

dropping lua51: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1252922

icu 78.1: breaks nodejs22, needs to be updated ( boo#1253118)

nghttp2 1.68.0, needs nodejs22 update (boo#1253000)

openSSL 3.6.0: missing fix for nodejs22:

likely upstream issue https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/28902

transactional-update switching on soft-reboot: QA changes pending, new
SR#1318427 in staging

systemd 258.2 blocked by an issue with yast2-bootloader

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253724

and an issue in systemd https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/39791

 libarchive 3.8.2: hold by a regression on cmake's test suite
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1253745


## Guillaume - Arm

Tumbleweed:
    * Rolling again
    * Still few issues within openQA due to Grub2 BLS

ARMv9:
    * WIP: fixes for GCS and other armv9 specific issues

## Sarah - s390x
* Leap 16:
    * Tests are failing continuously because Agama does not support
VNC (single arch with failed tests):
        https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/188931
        -> question to Santiago: What is the status of the test solution?
        As soon as it will working, Sarah will update the zsystems wiki page
    * cloud-init does not work for Minimal Leap Cloud Image (also
based on JeOS):
        https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1252096  (Fabian
wants to have it on ToDo list -> assigned to him)

* Tumbleweed:
    * Rolling
    * python-onnx tests fixed after 2 years:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215337
    -> Waiting for upstream release
    * next step:  onnx-mlir is required as an additional project for
communication with AI Hardware Accelerators


## Leap

Leap Micro 6.2 - Agama installation fixed. boo#1251909
Found a bug that agama doesn't respect readonly option. Workaround is
in the issue
https://github.com/agama-project/agama/issues/2883

Reworked get-o-o for LeapMicro + OEM (KDE), based on the feedback from users

Leap 16.1 Release process to be cloned into progress but we need to
revisit https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSE-release-process first

The fix of the wrong pattern selection(Leap pattern vs SLE pattern)
has been submitted; a release-package update also submitted which
should fix recursive sle_macro problem for the local build, also a
is_opensuse macro will be injected to the macros.leap file

Published Leap 16.0 install workshop articles
https://www.suse.com/c/coly-li-linux-study-group/
https://www.suse.com/c/cyberladies-empower-women-with-ope...

## Maintenance (Marcus, Robert)

15.6 - Business as usual
16.0 - We can't test on s390x. Power doesn't seem to have any workers assigned.
Max: the only worker seems to be unstable

## Doug
* Hack Week ssh-zig article published
* Hack Week Bugzilla Triage to be published
lkocman: It would be a really nice to have a combined article with
this + Simon Lees's Packtrack article as these would fit a shared
story.
* Asked to support I Love Free Software Day celebration in NUE
* Open Developers Summit 2026

* 15 Registration, 13 Submissions

* April 23 (CfP ends Feb. 14)

* openSUSE America Summit

* No new information

* FOSDEM (31.01.26 - 01.02.26)

* Booth submission accepted

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

* oSC26

* Make decision by January

* Current possibilities

* Possibility to do oSC in Brno at UNOB https://unob.cz/

* Z-Bau (Nürnberg):

* June 24–27 (possible)

* August 19–22 (possible) - in vacation time

* University in Prague:

* July 9–11 (possible)

* July 16–18 (possible)

* first week of July occupied by architectural exhibition

* Fedora Flock is June 14 to 16

* DevConf.cz is June 18 - 20

* Will go over proposed AI Guidelines in discussion on Thursday's
community meeting


Work on Digital Sovereignty story

Trigger: https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issue/100

https://en.opensuse.org/DigitalSovereignty
https://en.opensuse.org/DigitalSovereignty/EU

WIP Table of hosts generated from Heroes zone config. Pending
validation from Heroes
https://en.opensuse.org/Talk:DigitalSovereignty/EU


## Adrian - OBS

Nothing to report

## Bernhard - Slowroll

rolling normally. debugged a problem with opensuse-migration-tool (fix
was already in git)

## Bernhard - reproducible builds

improve rb-checker bot to put less load on OBS

## Adam - Git Workflow

Not available

## Santiago - openQA
- Started looking into enabling more agama installation tests
- Worked on some of the fallout of the X11 pattern nolonger being by
default on gnome
- Microos soft reboot is needs also https://build.opensuse.org/requests/1317768
- Found a bug in the maintenance bot code with openSUSE/Leap repo, now fixed

## Richard (Aeon+botmaster+tik)

Not available

## Open Floor

Next-next meeting will be cancelled due to Hackweek 25
https://hackweek.opensuse.org/
Hackweek availability: People will need our support to get changes
into distributions, we should make it clear how to reach out to us in
case they are blocked.