openSUSE Release Engineering minutes May 30

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## Attendees
rbrown, lkocman, DimStar, Sarah, guillaumeg, rfrohl, mmessiner,
ddemaio, ana, bmwiedemann


## Leap

Leap 15.6 IPRQ request raised with Legal
release notes submitted to 15.6

openSUSE 15.6 GMC code submission deadline was last week.
As of yesterday SLES 15 SP6 does not plan to take additional changes.
GO/NOGO is today at 15:30.
I am invited to the meeting.

Security-audit relavent issues https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224165
drop of package from Factory for sec reasons but not Leap
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215172
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225350 update in 15.5 did
not land in 15.6

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225540 (downgrade of packages)



Update on known issues https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Known_bugs_15.6
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1219505 (is in fact two
issues) the switching was fixed by Alynx Zhou, by implementing
text-input-v1 for mutter expected to land as 0day update (MSC-798)
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1219718 (NVIDIA only) #
Requires co-ordination compositor/NVIDIA/mutter (Yi Fan will disucss
this with Alynx). I did set needinfo on Stefan and slacked him.

Leap Micro 6.0

I've backported all changes from SLEM 6.0 till yesterday. We have -RT
flavors back etc.

* openQA red but at least it's now working. Some initial issues with
importing new builds
* Brand new openSUSE Public Cloud Team kickoff on Thursday
https://calendar.opensuse.org/teams/release/events/public...
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:PublicCloud_team


Leap 16

I'd like to have MVP of self-install image, + Agama 8 base-system
installation for osc2024.
After short discussion with Adrian  we'll try to do product builds
based on the git workflow

Experimental Leap 16.0:Images setup with git backend
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Leap:16....
https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/issues/13176
https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/pull/12351

osc2024
Playing with some ideas for osc2024 talk and related branding workshop
3d printable chameleon (needs some polishing to make it look more like
actual Geeko) https://github.com/lkocman/geeko-brickz/blob/main/README.md

## openSUSE Tumbleweed (ana)

openSUSE:Factory build fail stats: 40 failed 12 unresolvable (last
week 45 failed, 3 unresolvable)
 https://tinyurl.com/ysy4nnnz

809 requests accepted in the last week

Most relevant updates:

GCC 13.3

libcap-ng 0.8.5

pkgconf 2.2.0

Plasma 6.0.5(.1) + KDE release 24.05.0

Qt 6.7.1

GNOME 46.2 (evince 46.3!), evolution 3.52.2

AppArmor 4.0.1

curl 8.8.0

doxygen 1.11.0

gtk 3.24.42

ICU 75.1

QEMU 9.0.0



Soon:

ninja 1.12.1

Linux Kernel Longterm adding ARM config


Blocked:

 pytest 8.2.0 (first of 8.x.x series), a bunch of python packages
require fixes in their tests. (a few fixes remaining in ring1)

rubygem-rspec, waiting for update of the remaining -rspec packages

lvm2   2.2.03.24, (SR#1176956 needs rpm-level dependency, waiting
update systemd)

LXQt 2.0.0(.1), a few packages failed in the submission and the
remaining have been stuck for 2 weeks


### longer-lasting topics
* GCC 14: second phase ongoing, use gcc14 as the default compiler
(Staging:Gcc7) Advancing slowly
* RPM 4.20

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.op...
(35 spec files left with this issue in Factory)

* 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  (needs to update ~70
packages) traking at
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221095
 * dbus-broker as default dbus session manager, now everything builds,
some openQA checks failing.
* nfs-utils - https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1218158
* btrfsmaintenance - https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1224364



## Richard (Aeon+botmaster)
AEON IS NOW RC2:
https://news.opensuse.org/2024/05/28/aeon-desktop-brings-...
Coverage links:
     https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Aeon-RC2

https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-aeon-desktop-rc2/


Download from https://aeondesktop.org

Basic Install Guide written, link on https://aeondesktop.org

https://aeondesktop.org/bugs is getting a few bugs but nothing so
terrible or showstopping
Road to Release now includes:
    - Bug fixes
    - openQA tests
    - Improving Documentation/Website
    - Adding FDE somehow to Aeon's featureset

## Max

Leap 15.6
* Merged release-notes update
* Look into https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225540 and
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225537
* Preparing for another GMC build

## Guillaume - Arm

* Tumbleweed:
    - Blocked: openQA found problems due to apparmor 4 update (fixes on the way)
    - kernel-longterm on the way for aarch64 -
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1177387
    - WIP: Continue to fix packages built without PAC/BTI
    - 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 15.5:
    - Boot problem with JeOS on RPi3 inside openQA -
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225352

* Leap 15.6/Backports SP6:
    - no issue

## Sarah - s390x

* Tumbleweed is rolling

* bi-weekly Z architecture related trainings instead of openSUSE
zSystems meetings (invitations distributed via opensuse-zsystems and
opensuse-factory): different disks (dasd and zFCP) and qeth for
networks, the same as "how to use s390-tools" (4 participants)
lkocman: I wonder if the SUSE certified instructor (for universities)
would make sense for you Sarah. I can send you link or simply message
universities@suse.com.

* orga of the openSUSE/SUSE zSystems BBQ party (before Ihno wants to retire)
    -> Ihno will join openSUSE zSystems (switch from SUSE to openSUSE)
lkocman: I'd be happy to join if its around osc2024
skriesch: Planned time 29th June 2024 after the oSC:

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/zsystems@lists.o...

## Doug
* Leap 15.6 article

* A few more translations made EN / CA / CS / DE / ES / JA

* https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.6

* An agreement to have a linked video from get-o-o download page done
in  collaboration with Robert Sirchia

*Contribution Workshops

* Espisode 8 is up

* GSoC

* Coding has begun

* Mid-term evaluation July 8 - 12

* Hugging Face article published
* Aeon RC2 article published
* Monthly tw article published
* openSUSE.Asia Summit Logo contest began
* Community Summit

* 33 Registrations

* openSUSE Conference

* 157 Registrations

* CEO will provide a video


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
zypper/libzypp size reduction landed (~ 5-8MB less code), please CC me on issues


## Wolfgang (Package Hub), Scott Bahling

Not available

## Maintenance team (Marcus, Robert)

chromium unblocked last week, big thanks to the maintainers for their effort
  -> released three updates since

Marcus: 15.6 looks correctly setup.

We need to publish at least empty repodata to
https://download.opensuse.org/update/leap-micro/6.0/sle/
Adrian: please syncup with Gustavo Boiko

Otherwise I keep temporarily repo as disabled
https://build.opensuse.org/projects/openSUSE:Leap:Micro:6...

Chromium regression, update revoked

## Adrian - OBS

Available today/tomorrow if you need something from Adrian, otherwise
please contact autobuild team.

## Bernhard - Slowroll
fixed some (4) bugs in slowroll-tools
plan for smoother next version bump with Adrian+mls
http://stage3.opensuse.org:17080/munin/opensuse.org/stage...
progressing nicely - might declare Slowroll as Beta/RC/ready on
openSUSE conference
next version bumps planned with monthly cadence around 2024-06-09,
2024-07-09, 2024-08-09
DVD done ; NET iso should work after next version-bump
openQA-test-fix WIP


## Bernhard - reproducible builds

no news


## Open Floor

lkocman SLFO (SUSE Linux Framework One was ALP) - Submissions are
welcome (IBS only).
Related to future work on
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Leap:16.0
Lubos needs to open request for SR mirroring. Marco Strigl confirmed
that current tooling for sr mirroring will not be sufficient.

Adrian: we have to figure out how to make git submissions against SLFO.