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10 Januar 2023

Attendees:

  • Sarah Kriesch (openSUSE)
  • Dipak Zope (Debian)
  • Nikolay Gueorguiev (SUSE)
  • Louis Abel (Rocky Linux)
  • Daniel Horak (Fedora)
  • David Edelsohn (IBM)
  • Ulrich Weigand (IBM)
  • Mark Post (SUSE)

Excused:

  • Elizabeth Joseph (IBM)

Agenda:

  • Interviews:
  • Sarah is accepted for a presentation in the distributions dev room at FOSDEM on Sunday, 5 February 2023, at 11:00 (Hybrid Conference).
  • qore is available for s390x again 
  • libcds/firebird: First time, that the build for s390x is successfully, but x86 not (there was a change in package dependencies): firebird build for openSUSE
  • x server (x application to x server): Changes required

    • It has to be handled on distro side instead of x86 (virtual graphic card)


    • perhaps long term solution with support for virtual gpu (Ulrich will ask)

  • frame pointer option enabling (already forwarded and approved with some changes)
  • Debian has got a new s390x Contributor

15 November 2022

Attendees

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph (IBM)
  • Sarah Kriesch (openSUSE)
  • Dan Horak (Fedora)
  • Ulrich Weigand (IBM)
  • David Edelsohn (IBM)
  • Mark Post (SUSE)
  • Nikolay (SUSE)

Agenda

  • Administrative
    • Renewed for another year
    • Video interview later today with Sarah, Ulrich, Lyz
  • Red Hat release last week, Fedora this weeks
  • .NET 7 is now available, being worked on for RHEL, Fedora, Alpine, and Ubuntu
  • No news on the Debian side, just working through typical bugs
  • Welcome Nikolay from SUSE to the group, Mark is getting him up to speed.

10 October 2022

Attendees:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph (IBM)
  • Sarah Kriesch (openSUSE)
  • Dan Horak (Fedora)
  • Dipak Zope (Debian)
  • David Edelsohn (IBM)
  • Mark Post (SUSE)

Agenda:

12 September 2022

Attendees:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph (IBM)
  • Dan Horak (Fedora)
  • Dipak Zope (Debian)
  • Louis Abel (Rocky Linux)
  • David Edelsohn (IBM)
  • Sarah Kriesch (openSUSE)

Agenda:

  • Lyz and Sarah are speaking at Open Mainframe Summit about the WG
    • Video will be public online in a couple months (registration is required, if anyone wants a discount code, contact Lyz)
  • Dipak asked if anyone has ideas of how to go about increasing using base
    • Dan shared that there are people hitting the s390x mirror, so there are users
    • openSUSE is doing that mentoring session at GHC and does other events to help promote

8 August 2022

Attendees:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph (IBM)
  • Sarah Kriesch (openSUSE)
  • Dipak Zope (Debian)
  • David Edelsohn (IBM)
  • Mark Post (SLES)
  • Dan Horak (Fedora)
  • Neil Hanlon (Rocky Linux)
  • Ulrich Weigand (IBM)

Agenda:

  • Events
  • Outstanding bugs/issues
    • openJDK 17 is integrated with openSUSE, but working to get Open J9 into releases (currently just in tumbleweed, not leap), who will support it now that Open J9 is open source (not a technical issue)? Ulrich will talk to Tomas.
    • Mentioned at a previous meeting, and fixed! https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8288128
  • Other business
    • Rocky Linux 9 is out, had some fixes to do but it’s going well
    • Debian is moving along, postgres workaround fix has been explored workaround created for openSUSE, but a real fix for llvm is in the works (hopefully for llvm 16) 
    • Fedora 37 is getting ready, no major changes to the toolchain so things are going well
    • SLES sp5 in the works, Rancher on zSystems release happened too
    • openSUSE zSystems folks will be at the Open Source Day at Grace Hopper in September!

13 June 2022

Attendees

  • Sarah Kriesch (openSUSE)
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph (IBM)
  • Dan Horak (Fedora)
  • Ihno Krumreich (openSUSE)
  • David Edelsohn (IBM)
  • Louis Abel (Rocky Linux)

Agenda:

9 May 2022

Attendees:

  • Sarah Kriesch (openSUSE)
  • Rajendra Kharat (Debian)
  • David Edelsohn (IBM)
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph (IBM)
  • Mark Post (SLES)
  • Ulrich Weigand (IBM)
  • Dipak Zope (Debian)
  • Dan Horak (Fedora)

Agenda

11 April 2022

Attendees:

  • Sarah Kriesch (openSUSE)
  • Rajendra Kharat (Debian)
  • David Edelsohn (IBM)
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph (IBM)
  • Mark Post (SLES)
  • Ulrich Weigand (IBM)
  • Dipak Zope (Debian)
  • Dan Horak (Fedora)
  • Louis Abel (Rocky Linux)

Agenda

  • Alpine Linux, struggling with rustbuild (https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/tsc/-/issues/44), Ulrich and his toolchain team at IBM understand the situation, this is a known issue but wasn’t a priority until now. Tuan Hoang from IBM is a contact here and he is working on this. Someone will update the bug report.
  • Debian https://www.debian.org/News/2022/20220326
  • Debian needs continued support for their autopkgtest builder, they’re having I/O problems and Lyz will follow-up to make sure they have the right resources.
  • Welcome to Rocky Linux participant Lous Abel gave us a quick update - he said they started bootstrapping on the platform this past weekend.

14 March 2022

Attendees:

  • Sarah Kriesch
  • Rajendra Kharat
  • David Edelsohn
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Mark Post
  • Ulrich Weigand
  • Dipak Zope

Agenda:

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# Processor type and features

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CONFIG_HAVE_MARCH_Z900_FEATURES=y

CONFIG_MARCH_Z900=y

# CONFIG_MARCH_Z990 is not set

# CONFIG_MARCH_Z9_109 is not set

# CONFIG_MARCH_Z10 is not set

# CONFIG_MARCH_Z196 is not set

# CONFIG_MARCH_ZEC12 is not set

# CONFIG_MARCH_Z13 is not set

# CONFIG_MARCH_Z14 is not set

# CONFIG_MARCH_Z15 is not set

CONFIG_MARCH_Z900_TUNE=y

CONFIG_TUNE_DEFAULT=y

# CONFIG_TUNE_Z900 is not set

# CONFIG_TUNE_Z990 is not set

# CONFIG_TUNE_Z9_109 is not set

# CONFIG_TUNE_Z10 is not set

# CONFIG_TUNE_Z196 is not set

# CONFIG_TUNE_ZEC12 is not set

# CONFIG_TUNE_Z13 is not set

# CONFIG_TUNE_Z14 is not set

# CONFIG_TUNE_Z15 is not set

  • General discussion: Are there other goals we wish to see for this working group?
    • Group will consider and discuss at next meeting.

14 February 2022

Attendees:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Sarah Kriesch
  • Mark Post
  • David Edelsohn
  • Frank Heimes
  • Ulrich Weigand
  • Dipak Zope

Agenda:

10 January 2022

Attendees:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Sarah Kriesch
  • Ihno Krumreich
  • Divya Goswami
  • Rajendra Kharat
  • Ulrich Weigand
  • David Edelsohn
  • Dipak Zope

Agenda:

  • Welcome and Introductions
  • Any other business

Notes:

All project resources are listed at https://wiki.openmainframeproject.org/display/LinuxDistrosWG

Introductions

Fedora is invited - confirmed

Invite Alpine to collaborate

Sarah is presenting at FOSDEM on LoZ, she will email the list when the schedule is live

Debian folks are working on d-i issues, currently struggling with some disk utilities, trying to bypass the GPG signing in d-i for development, Elizabeth will put them in touch with the Ubuntu folks to see if they know

Sarah mentioned that openSUSE is working on an installer issue with packages getting installed, but after the restart it to finish the installer (bootloader, etc) there is a problem.

David mentioned a systemd crash problem on Fedora Rawhide (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1986176) - maybe related to the openSUSE problem? Sarah will look into their systemd situation.

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