openSUSE Release Engineering minutes March 6

!!! HEADS UP WE ARE BACK USING JITSI !!!
https://meet.opensuse.org/ReleaseEngineeringMeeting

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

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


## Attendees

ana, Sarah,GuillaumeG, lkocman, Adrian, ddemaio, mlin, Marcus


## Leap

Leap 15.6 Beta build Build626.1 landed in openQA 25 minutes ago
https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/overview?distri=opensus...

I'm really happy that Max and Peter Simons were able to get haskell fixes in.
We're using older haskell packages that were already dropped from
Factory. Results of the last build looked well.

openSUSE Leap 15.6 Beta marketing availability + related Bug day will
be streamed live on Thursday 21:00 CET as part of our regular Thursday
meeting. There will be a news-o-o article released shortly before that
19:00 UTC.
^ Sharing is caring!

Sharing plan with factory / project -
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.op...

How to connect -
https://calendar.opensuse.org/teams/marketing/events/thur...
Bug day page WIP - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_Day

openSUSE Booth at Installlfest 2024 is happening next weekend
https://installfest.cz/if24/
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Organising_a_booth

openSUSE Leap future strategy discussion with Rick Spencer next week in Prague.


## openSUSE Tumbleweed (ana)

openSUSE:Factory build fail stats: 139 failed 33 unresolvable (last
week 170 failed, 26 unresolvable)
 https://tinyurl.com/ysy4nnnz
=> Around ~80 are python packages that are still failing to build with
Python 3.12

Most relevant updates:
* Linux Kernel Longterm  6.6.19
* Linux Kernel  6.7.7
* kernel-firmware 20240229
* ca-certificates-mozilla 2.66
* transactional-update  4.6.0 ( support for systemd soft-reboot)
* shadow  4.14.6
* exiv2 0.28.2
* expat 2.6.1
* ImageMagick 7.1.1.29
* All Python 3.x version with fix for CVE-2023-6597

Updates waiting / work still in progress:
* GCC 14: second phase ongoing, use gcc14 as the default compiler (Staging:Gcc7)
* RPM 4.19.1.1 + 4.20

* RPM 4.19.1.1 (user/group dependencies),  Packages not included in
rings getting updates, still some more to go, see
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.op...

* Preparations for RPM 4.20, %patchN won't be supported anymore, see
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.op...

* Python 3.12+removal of 3.9 modules: Not all modules fixed to build
with Python 3.12,  removal of python 3.9 modules blocked by build
failures. Considering pushing it soon. Python3.9 interpreter would
stay for some time more.
* KDE Frameworks and Plasma 6 + KDE Gear 24.02.0 released last week,
advancing well thanks to reactivity of KDE+Qt team
* libreoffice 24.2.1.2, need openQA test update
https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/156628
* go1.22 as default go version, blocked on i586 with packages which
export CGO_ENABLED=0 and go build -buildmode pie
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/64875
* systemd 255.3 ( SR#1152118), rpmlist withelist done,  blocked now
because it fails to build
* update openSUSE-build-key (new suse container key!) SR#1150669 -
blocked until key is replaced
 * libxml 2.12.1, on hold, no progress
 * dbus-broker as default dbus session manager, now everything builds,
two openQA checks failing.


## Richard (Aeon+botmaster)

Not available

## Max

Leap 15.6 - build stats in Backports: 79 faild, 24 unresolvable
* PUblished Build623.2
* Bumped the version to Beta, Build626.1 can be the first public Beta
* Haskll issue is fixed(almost) except of a few haskell package

## Guillaume - Arm

* Tumbleweed:
    - Rolling
    - WIP: Still some packages built without PAC/BTI, two main reasons:
        * assembler files without PAC/BTI (usually reported upstream,
e.g. openssl, gnutls, etc)
        * Packages built without distro flags (usually fixed in spec file)
        * TW installer issues with PAC/BTI -
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219717 - Unable to
reproduce anymore on a different host, while openQA still fails.
    - rpmlint: https://rpmlint.opensuse.org/
        * we noticed that rpmlint does not check anymore for packages
built without distro %{optflags}. We should add it back.
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1217840
        Doug: rpmlint GSOC topic. Neal will be helping to mentor that.
https://github.com/openSUSE/mentoring/issues/204

* Leap 15.6/Backports SP6:
    - CVE for python-onnx but update impossible because of missing
deps and some deps requiring newer python.
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1220313 - Delete Request
sent.
    - (Empty) Arm section added in
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Known_bugs_15.6

* WSL: x86_64 is fetched from Microsoft Store GUI for Tumbleweed image
instead of arm64. But `wsl --install openSUSE-Tumbleweed
--web-download` works just fine! -
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1219372.
Scott Bradnick made the instructions for Windows for Arm into image
description for Tumbleweed. I believe we've also updated WSL wiki with
the instrucitons. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:WSL


## Sarah - s390x
* Second mainframe is up and running
-> Many builds are running at the moment (also gcc) and the manframe
is not really stable
    -> waiting for a new Tumbleweed release

* gcc bug (2021) reactivated related to memory optimization on the
mainframe: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101523
*  related openSUSE Bug (not really informative):
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1188441


GPG keys for s390x, PPCle and RISC-V expired in openSUSE-build-key:
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220993

## Doug
*  bugzilla.opensuse.org

*  Submitted Bug 1220916

* Asked to delete - If you experience any difficulties or find any
issues, please, report to SUSE Bugzilla Team (email)

* Contribution Workshops

* More sign ups at
https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/openSUSE-Contribution-Wor...

* Episode 3 - Bumping "Packaging Guidelines" to a later date and will
have a learning "how to report bugs" video

* Episode 4 - Language-specific packaging - Rust and Go provided link.
Will come in March

* Published SD Boot Utils article
* Leap 15.6 beta article ready for publication on Thursday at 7 p.m.
We should do a little prequel for BugDay/LiveEvent (like a little
tweet or similar today). To increase attendance of the event.
* GSoC

* Sent report to Project Manager

* Started seperate workspace on slack for mentees and mentors -
https://join.slack.com/t/opensuse-group/shared_invite/zt-...

* Community Summit

* 8 Registrations, 5 Submissions, 2 Hours (pre-announcement)

* openSUSE Conference

* 48 Registrations, 27 Submissions, 16 Hours (5 Open 4 Business Submissions)

** I won't be available next weeks

Static
* oSC24 dates June 27 to 29 reserved (Thursday - Saturday)

* Open 4 Business June 26 between 2 - 6 p.m. at Franken Campus

* AI topics (static)

## Dirk

Not available


## Wolfgang (Package Hub), Scott Bahling

Not available

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

Struggling with chromium update. Maintainers are not currently able to
update it to the current version.
No transition method for expired keys. Temporarily disabling the key
in libcontainer policy (Marcus please correct me). The goal is to have
the least disruptive method for it.

Dominique: the new key seems to raise some issues - transition needs
to be figured out.
Marcus: I did check podman documentation and am looking if we can have
temporarily two keys in parallel.
Marcus: will we resign all the images on the registry or only new ones?
Dominique: for rpm we usually accept both old and new key for about a
half a year.

lkocman: Leap Micro 6.X update channel setup will have to be done soon
(within a few weeks).

## Adrian - OBS

Not available
lkocman: we need to cleanup accepted / rejected requests in
SUSE:SLE-15-SP6:GA in OBS. lkocman doesn't have permissions to do so
in OBS. Workaround would be to re-add/reject suse-sle-reviewers
review.

Lubos will write to autobuild + add Marco to the first line.

## Simon (Leap Replacement/Linarite)

Not available

## Bernhard Slowroll

* kernel-longterm 6.6.19 from Factory
* kernel-default now follows Factory
* OBS now has a Slowroll distribution target, so it is easy to add in
devel projects
* https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE_Slowroll/ gets some activity

## Open Floor

When will there be a leap:15.6 container image?
We did mention that we'd like to advertise BCI images instead of Leap
15.6 base image. So yes there should ideally be 15SP6 BCI image
together with PUBLIC Beta.
Marcus: there is one last blocker on the BCI image side for 15 SP6