Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Announcements for upcoming meetings with joining information and precise time are sent to the mailing list and tracked on the team calendar.
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9 April 2024
Attendees:
- Elizabeth (Lyz) K. Joseph (IBM)
- Sarah Julia Kriesh (openSUSE)
- Daniel Horak (Fedora)
Agenda:
- Sarah just spoke at Grazer Linuxtage 2024, how’d it go? Went well!
- Elizabeth presenting on the WG at the Open Source Summit: https://ossna2024.sched.com/event/1aK2u
- openSUSE 15.6 beta is looking good and on track for release (July-ish)
- Fedora 40 is on track for a release (next week or so)
- GTK problem noted previously with colors couldn’t be replicated on openSUSE, but it may be some other library or version mismatch, Elizabeth will follow up with Gayathri about what the plan is (drop support in Debian?)
- Ubuntu has .NET packages for the upcoming 24.04 release via Launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mateus-morais/+archive/ubuntu/dotnet8.0.102-s390x Elizabeth will follow up with Frank about status and whether they're doing any announcement around it
12 March 2024
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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
- Other upcoming events
- June 2-4: openSUSE conference (Sarah is speaking, see above)
- June 16-18: VM Workshop is in June (CFP already closed)
- August 21-26: SHARE in August (CFP already closed)
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