The purpose of this working group is to oversee the health and maintenance of the s390x port of various Linux distributions to ensure that the s390x port remains a supported architecture for them all. To this end, the group will collaborate on shared challenges and successes, work together to nurture new contributors, and make sure they also have the infrastructure they need.
Project proposal (status: approved): https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/277
Mailing list: https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/wg-linux-distros
Slack channel: #linux-distros-wg
Elizabeth K. Joseph (IBM) and Sarah Julia Kriesch (Accenture, openSUSE) are the leaders of this Working Group, and the TAC member sponsor is Mark Post (SUSE).
Meetings
We started having meetings in January 2022. All meeting minutes can be found here: Meetings
Events
Sarah Julia Kriesch "Collaboration instead of Competition: The Linux Distributions Working Group at the Open Mainframe Project" at FOSDEM 2022 on Sunday, 6 February 2022.
Distribution-specific resources
Debian
The Debian s390x team has a mailing list at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/ and their own port page at https://www.debian.org/ports/s390/
Elizabeth K. Joseph has been rallying contributors to continue support for Debian on s390x.
Fedora
Fedora 390x is built alongside all the other architectures in the main Koji build system. It is shipped as a secondary architecture to mirrors, rather than a primary architecture.
Dan Horák is the primary contact for s390x in Fedora.
openSUSE
The ZSystems team for openSUSE has a wiki page here: https://en.opensuse.org/ZSystems and a mailing list at https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/zsystems@lists.opensuse.org/
openSUSE is building for s390x alongside all the other architectures with the Open Build Service under https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems .
openSUSE Tumbleweed as a rolling release and openSUSE Leap 15.3 are available for s390x.
Sarah Julia Kriesch has been leading the efforts for s390x in openSUSE.