17:27:58 #startmeeting Workstation WG (2022-08-09) 17:27:58 Meeting started Tue Aug 9 17:27:58 2022 UTC. 17:27:58 This meeting is logged and archived in a public location. 17:27:58 The chair is brainycmurf. Information about MeetBot at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zodbot#Meeting_Functions. 17:27:58 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 17:27:58 The meeting name has been set to 'workstation_wg_(2022-08-09)' 17:27:58 #meetingname workstation 17:27:58 The meeting name has been set to 'workstation' 17:27:58 #chair Allan 17:27:58 Current chairs: Allan brainycmurf 17:28:11 #info Present members:Kalev, Allan, Neal, Chris, Jens, Matthias, Tomas 17:28:11 #info Guests:Luna Jernberg (bittin), Zac 17:28:11 #info Regrets: 17:28:11 #info Missing: 17:28:11 #info Secretary: Neal 17:28:12 #topic F37 release status 17:28:14 GNOME 43 beta tarball deadline was last Saturday 17:28:16 Kalev: most of GNOME 43 beta is built, gnome-shell hasn't been released, webkitgtk is not built yet, blocks gnome-initial-setup 17:28:21 Michael: ppc64le and s390x is OOMing, blocking successful builds of webkitgtk. Complains about lack of s390x resources 17:28:24 Neal: s390x builders are shared between RHEL and Fedora, unfortunately. 17:28:26 Chris: maybe tuning zram and adding swap may help fix the OOM issue 17:28:28 F37 GNOME test day coming up 17:28:30 #link https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/issue/705 17:28:32 Kalev: Proposes test week next week 17:28:34 Neal: Next week is DevConf.US, he won't be around 17:28:36 Luna: not anywhere near Boston, so will be around to help test 17:28:38 Allan: We'll shoot for Monday to start test week as the team will be around 17:28:40 Allan: would like people to test it asap to help upstream 17:28:42 Neal: might give it a shot on his work laptop with Chris' btrfs reversible upgrade procedure 17:28:44 #info draft write-up for a reversible dual-boot test station using btrfs snapshots 17:28:46 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chrismurphy/Draft/dualboot_teststation 17:28:50 Allan notes this will also include Nautilus ported to GTK4 too 17:28:52 Allan: will reach out to get the test week wiki page to have test focus info 17:28:54 #topic F37 milestone issue review 17:28:56 #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issues?status=Open&milestone=Fedora+37&close_status= 17:28:58 We'll cover #306 and #164 separately. 17:29:00 #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/84 17:29:02 Neal: working on OpenH264 (#84) install and Anaconda removal (#242) on firstboot scripts 17:29:04 Michael: Milan has theoretically fixed GNOME Software to work as our updates policy intends (#107) 17:29:07 #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/130 17:29:09 Michael and Tomas say the ABRT reports are decent quality now, but lots of dupes filed because it keeps making private bugs when it doesn't need to (#130) 17:29:12 Neal suggests someone volunteer to disable the logic for creating private bugs 17:29:14 #action Matthias will try to find someone to work up an ABRT PR 17:29:16 #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/130 17:29:20 Tomas has ongoing work for this. It's not tied to a particular release, so we can drop the F37 milestone. 17:29:23 #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/163 17:29:25 This issue has been stuck for a while. We would like it for F37 though. 17:29:27 zbyszek did post a PR, but it was only for system units (#163) 17:29:29 #link https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/18386 17:29:31 Recent attempts to hail zbyszek have so far failed 17:29:33 #action Michael to propose a downstream patch 17:29:35 If it doesn't get accepted, we can raise the issue with FESCo 17:29:37 Allan: For the new string to replace "recommendation" phrase, we'll need downstream translations (#203) 17:29:40 Neal: Suggests maybe a generic "Available for your system" string instead of distro-specific one? 17:29:42 Matthias: It's possible to make a placeholder for distro name in the string 17:29:44 Neal: Is it even possible to translate metainfo files in Weblate? 17:29:46 Allan: thinks so, but can't find a reference for it 17:29:50 #topic Improve GTK4 font rendering by default for 1080p displays 17:29:52 #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/295 17:29:54 Deferred 17:29:56 #topic Remove Photos from the default apps 17:29:58 #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/164 17:30:00 Deferred 17:30:02 #topic Evaluate the state of gnome-calendar 17:30:04 #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/306 17:30:06 Deferred 17:30:08 #topic Announcements, Status Updates 17:30:10 Matthias: working on writing up test cases 17:30:12 Neal: Will be at DevConf.US next week 17:30:14 Fedora Nest 2022 recordings of talks is up until November if you did sign up on Hopin if not they will be up on Fedoras Youtube channel in 1-2 months 17:30:17 #info The minutes from last week have been posted. 17:30:21 #link https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2022-08-02/workstation.2022-08-02-19.31.log.html 17:30:24 #endmeeting