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.
9 July 2024
Recording:
Attendees:
- Elizabeth K. Joseph (IBM)
- Sarah Julia Kriesh (openSUSE)
Agenda:
- openSUSE Leap 15.6 has been released
- openSUSE Release Announcement: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/sarah-julia-kriesch/2024/06/24/opensuse-leap-156-released?communityKey=64d1d1bd-66bc-4ecb-b9e8-0372b18c5bcb
18 June 2024
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- Lyz and Sarah scheduled to meet with John Mertic for a regular project check-in on Thursday, June 27th
- Lyz participated in a TFiR interview at the Open Source Summit which has now been released: https://tfir.io/linux-distributions-working-group-fosters-collaboration-between-linux-distribution-maintainers/
- Via Sarah on the mailing list: Supported Python versions (onnx) https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/wg-linux-distros/message/189
- Andreas is chiming in on the opensuse bug
- Gcc memory issue bug from a couple years ago: Gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101523 and now: Gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115028
- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/pull/6183 is failing upstream, and in OBS
- Andreas is chiming in on the opensuse bug
- Containers that the teams at IBM are supporting are detailed here: https://github.com/ibm/zdlc
- The public version of the project (onnx-mlir) does create docker images for s390x: https://github.com/onnx/onnx-mlir/tree/main/docker
- Lyz asked internally about onnx builds and learned the default version of gcc on SLES that one of the IBM engineers was working on may have been the source of some problems, he told us to zypper to install with gcc12 to install onnx and shared a Dockerfile. Sarah shared that gcc12 is being removed from openSUSE. Also shared that we may also need to pin numpy to !2.0 since it just came out days ago and it hasn’t been tested, but Sarah shared that it’s passing OBS builds.
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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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