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12 March 2023

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Agenda

On Debian librsvg depends on Cairo, Cairo depends on Pixman, so Gayathri has been working on the dependency chain to make sure all the support is in place
Outstanding gtk bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057782 & https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6260 - but do we really need this on s390x?
All good from Rocky Linux and SUSE
Vignesh brought up a dependency chain request via pytorch, which resulted in… https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/99305

VM request was made for Apache Arrow, which Lyz granted yesterday: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20102

The openSUSE mainframe is back! But still a bit slow, openSUSE release coming up in July so they’re working to get back to full capacity and speed.
Lyz will be presenting at the Southern California Linux Expo in March (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/will-your-open-source-project-run-mainframe-and-beyond) which will include mention of the WG, and has a few other talks coming up in April
Sarah will be presenting at Grazer Linuxtage 2024 in early April (in German): https://pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt24/talk/KYDAVN/

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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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