Fedora Workstation WG minutes, 2023-05-09
by Chris Murphy
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#fedora-meeting-2: Workstation WG (2023-05-09)
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Meeting started by brainycmurf at 23:43:06 UTC. The full logs are
available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2023-05-10/workstation...
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Meeting summary
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* Present members: Tomas, Michael, Kalev, Chris, Owen, Neal, Mathias,
Jens (brainycmurf, 23:43:20)
* Guests: (brainycmurf, 23:43:20)
* Regrets: Allan (brainycmurf, 23:43:20)
* Missing: (brainycmurf, 23:43:20)
* Secretary: Tomáš (brainycmurf, 23:43:22)
* No secure ATA Erase functionality available on default install image
(brainycmurf, 23:43:24)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/378 (brainycmurf,
23:43:26)
* ACTION: ask the reporter for more information (brainycmurf,
23:43:32)
* Suggest upgrading KDF (Key Derivation Function) for encrypted drives
(brainycmurf, 23:43:34)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/372 (brainycmurf,
23:43:36)
* ACTION: Chris to email cryptsetup maintainers (brainycmurf,
23:43:46)
* Announcements and status updates (brainycmurf, 23:43:48)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2023-05-02/workstation...
(brainycmurf, 23:43:59)
Meeting ended at 23:44:02 UTC.
Action Items
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* ask the reporter for more information
* Chris to email cryptsetup maintainers
Action Items, by person
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* **UNASSIGNED**
* ask the reporter for more information
* Chris to email cryptsetup maintainers
People Present (lines said)
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* brainycmurf (24)
* zodbot (7)
* Michael (0)
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1 year
Fedora Workstation WG minutes, 2023-05-02
by Chris Murphy
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#fedora-meeting-2: Workstation WG (2023-05-02)
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Meeting started by brainycmurf at 20:59:32 UTC. The full logs are
available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2023-05-02/workstation...
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Meeting summary
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* Present members: Matthias, Allan, Michael, Kalev, Tomas, Owen, Chris,
Neal, Jens (brainycmurf, 20:59:50)
* Guests: jkonecy (brainycmurf, 20:59:50)
* Regrets: (brainycmurf, 20:59:50)
* Missing: (brainycmurf, 20:59:50)
* Secretary: Matthias (brainycmurf, 20:59:50)
* Anaconda Web UI requirements (brainycmurf, 20:59:51)
* Allow selecting a partitioning scheme (brainycmurf, 20:59:53)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/377 (brainycmurf,
20:59:55)
* Dual boot support (brainycmurf, 20:59:57)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/371 (brainycmurf,
20:59:59)
* Ability to change keyboard layout (brainycmurf, 21:01:03)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/368 (brainycmurf,
21:01:05)
* Ability to select a language and keyboard for installer and live
session (brainycmurf, 21:01:33)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/366 (brainycmurf,
21:01:35)
* No secure ATA Erase functionality available on default install image
(brainycmurf, 21:01:39)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/378 (brainycmurf,
21:01:41)
* Announcements and status updates (brainycmurf, 21:01:47)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2023-04-25/workstation...
(brainycmurf, 21:01:51)
* LINK: https://emersion.fr/blog/2023/hdr-hackfest-wrap-up/
(brainycmurf, 21:01:56)
Meeting ended at 21:01:58 UTC.
Action Items
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Action Items, by person
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* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* brainycmurf (66)
* zodbot (7)
* Allan (0)
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1 year
How Can I Debug a Thunderbird Startup Issue Specific to F38?
by John Mellor
After upgrading from F38 to F39, Thunderbird developed a black screen on
first use after startup. Thunderbird works well in F38, but not in
F39. Its not fatal, as invoking Thunderbird after that works properly,
but the first time after every machine reboot, it fails. There are no
updates that resolve this bug. I've tried it on multiple machines with
different timings, but the problem is in the code.
I also ran it with the JS debug option, but it never gets that far on
first run. It just locks up the same way as the main screen and the
debugger also blackscreens. So it seems like something in the startup
code is left waiting for a paint event or something.
The Thunderbird web site seems to be very indifferent to bugs, and there
is no obvious means of submitting a bug report. Since it works well on
multiple other platforms (I interchangeably use Windows, Manjaro and
Ubuntu), this is probably a Fedora-specific bug and not a Thunderbird bug.
This feels like a Gnome timing bug causing a missed event issue. How do
you look at the event (and a missed event) messages in Gnome to debug
this? Assuming that I can pinpoint a failing Gnome event, where do I
submit this bug?
1 year
[Testdays] Call for Fedora Linux 39 testing events
by Sumantro Mukherjee
Hi Fedora users, developers, and friends!
It's time to start thinking about Test Days for Fedora 39.
For anyone who isn't aware, a Test Day is an event usually focused
around IRC for interaction and a Wiki page for instructions and results,
with the aim being to get a bunch of interested users and developers
together to test a specific feature or area of the distribution. You can
run a Test Day on just about anything for which it would be useful to do
some fairly focused testing in 'real time' with a group of testers; it
doesn't have to be code, for instance, we often run Test Days for
l10n/i18n topics. For more information on Test Days, see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days .
Anyone who wants to can host their own Test Day, or you can request that
the QA group helps you out with organization or any combination of the
two. To propose a Test Day, just file a ticket in fedora-qa pagure - here's
an example https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/issue/624 . For
instructions on hosting a Test Day, see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management .
You can see the schedule at https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/issues?tags=test+days .
There are many slots open right now. Consider the development
schedule, though, in deciding when you want to run your Test Day - for
some topics you may want to avoid
the time before the Beta release or the time after the feature freeze
or the Final Freeze.
We normally aim to schedule Test Days on Thursdays; however, if you want
to run a series of related Test Days, it's often a good idea to do
something like Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday of the same week (this is
how we usually run the X Test Week, for instance). If all the Thursday
slots fill up but more people want to run Test Days, we will open up
Tuesday slots as overflows. And finally, if you really want to run a
Test Day in a specific time frame due to the development schedule, but
the Thursday slot for that week is full, we can add a slot on another
day. We're flexible! Just put in your ticket the date or time frame you'd
like, and we'll figure it out from there.
If you don't want to run your own Test Day, but you are willing to
help with another, feel free to join one or more of already accepted
Test Days:
GNOME Test Day*
i18n Test Day*
Kernel Test Week(s)*
Upgrade Test Day*
IoT Test Week*
Cloud Test Day*
Fedora CoreOS Test Week*
And don't be afraid, there are a lot of more slots available for your
own Test Day!
[*] These are the test days we run generally to make sure everything
is working fine, the dates get announced as we move into the release
cycle.
If you have any questions about the Test Day process, please don't
hesitate to contact me or any member of the Fedora QA team on test at
lists.fedoraproject.org or in #fedora-qa on IRC. Thanks!
--
//sumantro
Fedora QE
TRIED AND PERSONALLY TESTED, ERGO TRUSTED
1 year
