08:28:18 #startmeeting Workstation WG (2022-10-18) 08:28:18 Meeting started Fri Oct 21 08:28:18 2022 UTC. 08:28:18 This meeting is logged and archived in a public location. 08:28:18 The chair is aday. Information about MeetBot at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zodbot#Meeting_Functions. 08:28:18 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 08:28:18 The meeting name has been set to 'workstation_wg_(2022-10-18)' 08:28:18 #meetingname workstation 08:28:18 #chair Allan 08:28:18 The meeting name has been set to 'workstation' 08:28:18 Current chairs: Allan aday 08:28:18 08:28:18 #info Present members: Allan, Owen, Chris, Michael, Tomas, Matthias, Jens 08:28:18 #info Guests: Arnaud 08:28:20 #info Regrets: Kalev 08:28:22 #info Missing: 08:28:24 #info Secretary: Jens 08:28:26 08:28:28 #topic F37 release status 08:28:30 Kalev on vacation 10-24 October 08:28:32 All F37 blockers are cleared 08:28:34 There will be a go/no-go on Thursday 08:28:36 It might slip due to compose issues 08:28:40 gnome-software flatpak fix for Silverblue seemed to regress Workstation: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2135289 08:28:43 Likely release date is 25 October 08:28:45 #action Allan to review the "what's new" Fedora Magazine post 08:28:47 #action Neal to check on the upgrade banner in Software 08:28:49 New proposed blocker for GNOME Calendar - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2135772 already with 4 "plus" votes. 08:28:52 Likely to be waived given how late it is 08:28:54 08:28:56 #topic F37 blockers 08:28:58 08:29:00 gnome-calendar - Changes to recurring events don't redraw correctly - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2132769 08:29:03 08:29:05 gnome-calendar - Editing a recurring event moves it forward in time - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2132772 08:29:10 08:29:12 For the Calendar issues, Ray posted workarounds. There are also potential fixes upstream. 08:29:14 08:29:16 contacts - Link Contacts feature completely broken - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2130661 08:29:19 08:29:21 Niels seems to have a partial fix. In the meantime, Michael pushed a change to hide contact linking. 08:29:24 08:29:26 glibc - glibc 2.36+ breaks EAC with removal of DT_HASH (and other game libraries), making games fail to load - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2129358 08:29:29 08:29:31 Carlos O'Donell has a patch, but it doesn't seem to be ready. Neal has a separate patch to revert the upstream commit that caused the issue. 08:29:34 08:29:36 There's also a fair number of workstation-related freeze exceptions: https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/37/final/buglist 08:29:41 08:29:43 #topic fontconfig brokenness on Silverblue 08:29:45 #link https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/issues/330 08:29:47 #link https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/issues/331 08:29:49 Did this get tested yet? 08:29:51 Tomas thinks this looks fixed now. Matthias pinged adamw in #fedora-workstation 08:29:53 08:29:55 #topic Give ABRT some love 08:29:57 #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/130 08:29:59 Conversation happened with ABRT team: seems various things have been done: eg retrace server is now obsoleted by debuginfod 08:30:02 Wait for new release to land in Fedora and test how the new workflow works for users 08:30:04 08:30:06 #topic Work on a new appindicator protocol 08:30:10 #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/264 08:30:12 Michael has been tracking the discussion and looks getting close to agreeing on the overall spec/design 08:30:15 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/issues/84 08:30:17 Somewhat related to gnome Background Portal work for handling UI for background applications 08:30:19 The menu serialization format is not finalized yet 08:30:21 Neal is keen to see a conclusion soon. 08:30:23 #action Michael to ensure that there's a comment on the protocol ticket, with a summary of what still needs to be done 08:30:26 #action Allan to investigate who might be interested in taking the shell UI forward on the GNOME side 08:30:29 08:30:31 #topic Announcements, Status Updates 08:30:33 Allan will do a F37 Release Party presentation 08:30:35 08:30:37 #info The minutes from last week have been posted. 08:30:41 #link https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2022-10-13/workstation.2022-10-13-17.36.log.html 08:30:44 08:30:46 #endmeeting