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13 February 2024

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Agenda

A dependency exists related to the Open Telemetry project, so Ruediger Schulze said he’d bring it up with them: https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/wg-linux-distros/message/168

Sarah received some feedback at IBM TechXchange that there’s a performance kernel bug, she shared that Ruediger is aware of a bug in the kernel that’s causing some slowness, but we don’t have a bug link handy.
Elizabeth brought up the fact that BountySource is gone, so IBM no longer has a payment mechanism for one-off bug solving contributors. If anyone knows of other programs that exist, please let us know. Sarah mentioned German Unix User Group (GUUG) does some sponsorship, but David shared that it’s likely not a great fit due the format of the program, we’re looking for a way to post bugs to the community and allow developers to select them.
Ulrich committed and merged s390x support (today!) for support for the LLVM Linker discussed at the last meeting: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/fe3406e349884e4ef61480dd0607f1e237102c74

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AlmaLinux 9 beta came out with s390x support: https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-9-beta-now-available/
Fedora 36 release is on 10 May
openSUSE conference coming up in Nürnberg, Germany and Sarah is giving her Collaboration instead of Competition talk: https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC22/program/proposals/3700
Sarah launched a discussion about additional hardware possibilities, beyond what RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu have proposed and are collaborating with IBM on, community input from what the distros are seeing

If the hardware has $x feature, it may be interesting to see $y business cases realized
Do new HMCs have optical drives for DVD-based installs? Interesting question for installation / maintenance from the distros.

Remote desktop xrdp client isn’t building on openSUSE: https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems/xrdp/standard/s390x (the server is fine, which is the more common use case)

Ulrich checked - upstream claims to support it, a patch went in in March 2021
FYI Fedora patch: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xrdp/blob/rawhide/f/xrdp-0.9.16-arch.patch

Open Mainframe Project CFP: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-mainframe-summit/program/cfp/

Sarah and Lyz will work together on a proposal about the WG and progress being made, due June 10
If accepted, Lyz will present in person in Philadelphia

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