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9 January 2024

Attendees

Agenda

Is follow-up needed re: kubernetes/ingress-nginx potential removal? https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/10498

The project was granted a long-lived IBM LinuxONE Open Source Program VM in early January

Gtk4, librsvg removal risk via GNOME, Debian https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/wg-linux-distros/message/156

Ulrich noted that the Debian team IBM has in India is working on this and they discovered that between version 140 and 142 something broke big Endian in pixel processing, the images that come out are wrong
At this point, the problem is identified, it’s just complicated, and the fix may be a few dependencies down

Sarah Julia was able to recreate the issue before Christmas, Ulrich’s team was also looking into it and feels like the solution should be fairly straightforward

Should we have a ticketing system to manage items brought up on the mailing list, and at meetings?

Agreed: Not at this stage, everything we’re working on is already tracked in tickets upstream, and easy to keep track of via mailing list and meetings

Ulrich shared some LLD (LLVM Linker) support for s390x has been submitted as a patch, so anything depending upon it should start working once that lands: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/75643
Elizabeth brought up https://gitlab.gnome.org/jrb/crosswords/-/issues/118 as a lower priority issue, but one that may be easier for us to fix due to expertise in the area and would demonstrate some good will in the community

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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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