openSUSE Release Engineering minutes February 16

All meeting minutes can be found here:
https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/ReleaseEngineering-meeting
Meeting is hosted here
https://meet.opensuse.org/ReleaseEngineeringMeeting

## Attendees

lkocman, DimStar, DocB, Marcus, deneb_alpha, Sarah

## Leap

pkglistgen is failing on network issues. Issue was escalated to IT
Infra, 
WARNING SUSE-INTERNAL-LINK:
https://sd.suse.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/SD-77220

Checkin deadline for Beta is today 15:00 CEST
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap
Recent issues might result into delayed Beta avaialbility
What about the backlog of SR?
  
Related discussion with autobuild about making our builds faster. So
far the only suggestion/quick solution was to increase priority of job-
picking by OBS workers.
We have now a snapshot in place for SUSE:SLE-15-SP4 changes. That
should allow us safely finish our builds, before SLE changes retrigger
it. Plan is to update it once a week.

Bugzilla policy Leap related update prior Beta 
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.op...

No additional feedback aside from priority definitions, I consider
changes sufficient for Beta itself. 

Overlap in between SLE and Leap (forking WE packages)
https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSE-release-process/issu...
Plan with maintenance team 
https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/ReleaseEngineering-202202...

When will Qt 5.15 hit Leap 15.4?
https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features/issue/7 let's keep QT related
discussion 


Leap Micro 5.2 - No update yet, aside from setup being done.
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Leap:Mic...

Discussion with Alex Osthof regarding volunteer interested in Cloud. We
came up with idea that he could start a 
Public Cloud testsuite for Leap, there seems to a blank space where we
could benefit from additional testing.
Dirk: wouldn't that be redundant after CtLG? Pehaps then test it only
in Leap
Gerald: What about some targetted smoke test, to ensure it works,
branding,...? Dirk agrees.
Tasks were given, now it's on Zack.

Doug: https://github.com/cisco/openh264/issues/3480
Just needed clarification on the PR as needing to be hosted by cisco. 
Looks like 3rd party is what is needed, correct? 
It will be streamlined in 15.4, just not sure if it will be a cisco
repository or another, correct?
it will be a cisco repo for openh264, rest will be streamlined.
Waiting for feedback.

libksane blocker is being processed here
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1195978

## openSUSE Tumbleweed

* Kernel 5.16.8 in Tumbleweed with simple drm enabled; NVidia and AMD
users reported some bugs, like boo#1195885 and boo#1195887
* Python 3.6 being EOL, removal of python36-FOO modules ongoing. Last
week: 80 left, now 73
* glibc 2.35 is staged, passed QA. checkin planned for Feb 16
* KDE Frameworks 5.91 in staging - breaks LibreOffice
* GCC 12 pre-integration tests started (Staging:Gcc7); Scheduled for
actual merge in April/May

## Richard (Kubic/TW MicroOS) 

Not available

Working on MicroOS images for WSL, using a unique approach of bundling
the image inside the TW WSL image, which ends up acting like our usual
patched bootloader for MicroOS.
ongoing experiments with with kiwi-less, container-first VM image
building/adding nerdctl support to Toolbox/buildkit and its limits as a
container builder/TW-to-MicroOS converter

## Max

Not available

llvm13 will be the new default in Leap
https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features/issue/55

## Guillaume - Arm

Not available

Tumbleweed:
  * No blocker
  * Upcoming GCC 12 tested for aarch64:
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:dirkmueller:...
  * Tests of openSUSE Tumbleweed on The Pinebook Pro showed some
issues. Most of them are now fixed. Tracked on
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1194491

Leap 15.3:
  * Issue with installation media (net installation) for devices w/o
Real-Time-Clock. Workaround: Trigger rebuild of installation media.
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1194660
lkocman: to update the bug with installmedia refresh.
lkocman: respin done waiting for final s390x task to finish and then
let's republish it
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Leap:15....

Leap 15.4:
    * opencl-headers updated and armnn:opencl is built properly now.
   * aarch64: 
        * Go compiler from SLE still lacks ld.gold which is still
required. This make some packages to fail to build (e.g.
openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP4/rclone). Bug opened since Leap 15.3:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1183043
   * armv7: 
        * armv7 images are not tested in openQA yet, because JeOS-efi
image does not build properly due to an armv7 kernel bug with btrfs and
lzo compression: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193852
=> kernel overlay with a possible fix added. Need to wait for a new
build to check if the fix is ok.

## Sarah - s390x
Tumbleweed:
* Reboot does not work:   
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193889
(forwarded to IBM for all Linux distributions on s390x - escalated by
Distinguished Engineer because of a well known issue related to new gcc
versions in combination with the kernel)

*Bug in s390-tools:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1195914
    
    Builds for Tumbleweed are working again
    Progress in kernel debugging:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188896

## Doug
* openSUSE Conference 
* keynotes
* Emil Ivov is a yes
* TensorFlow/OSS DevInfra's Mihai Maruseac working on approval from
Google Brain to provide keynote
Hotels are fully booked. (Rock im Park, biggest rockfestival Nuernberg)
* Venueless set up ready
* Visa and TSP requests starting
* Google Summer of Code
* Application Complete & Submitted
* Projects listed at https://101.opensuse.org/
* Leap 15.4
* Beta annoucement article ready
* Debate on including paragraph about muiltimedia codecs 
* Progressing with release annoucement
* Editing wiki describing features

## Dirk

chasing a file read data corruption in 15.4 kernel due to transparent
hugepages, kernel team
developed a workaround
A few further fixes for /bin/sh == dash, remaining are kernel,
kubernetes and python macros

## Gerald / Board

[All good]

## Wolfgang (Package Hub), Scott Bahling

Not available
Need a confirmation from Wolfgang/Scott whether proposal in
https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSE-release-process/issu... will fix
the issue.

## Maintenance team (Marina or Marcus, Maurizio (m4u))

Marina: S:M:22734:264499 -> rpmlint released on 2022-02-14
Marina: SLE-PackageHub issues
(https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSE-release-process/issu...) we had
a meeting
(https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/ReleaseEngineering-202202...
). 
Thank you, this has unblocked us on the Qt side. Now we're  blocked on
botmaster network connectivity :-)
- Marcus: 15.4 is set up channel wise, updates will go in testing
occasionaly, if you need more ping me, no openqa setup yet

## Adrian - OBS 
Rudi is fighting with host kernel issues in IBS. There are quite some
issues with the SP4 kernel.
x86_64 - seems like the issue not caused by SP4/numa. 

Discussion about the Leap build pace.  
Seems like switching the rebuild strategy would only result into more
issues.
Adrian: could be caused by numa.  Let's focus on this once we'll have
stable workers again.