#fedora-meeting-2: Workstation WG (2020-03-17)

Meeting summary

1. Rollcall (aday, 11:53:38)
   1. present: Michael, Chris, Jens, Kalev, Matthias, Neal, Tomas, Langdon (joined later). Guests: Benjamin Berg, Felipe Borges, Matthew Miller (aday, 11:53:40)
   2. regrets: Allan (aday, 11:53:43)
   3. missing: (aday, 11:53:45)
   
   
2. Defer approval of minutes to next week (aday, 11:53:49)
   1. https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/workstation/workstation.2020-03-12-18.24.html (aday, 11:53:51)
   
   
3. Announcements (aday, 11:53:55)
   1. Fedora 32 beta is out! (aday, 11:54:01)
   2. WG discusses multimedia codecs. (aday, 11:54:03)
   3. Kalev produced another YouTube video that has attracted some positive attention. (aday, 11:54:05)
   
   
4. Reconsider updates policy (aday, 11:54:09)
   1. https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/107 (aday, 11:54:11)
   2. Regular updates every 1-2 weeks, urgent updates on demand and hopefully not often (aday, 11:54:17)
   3. request FESCo establish a policy/definition around what is "urgent" (aday, 11:54:22)
   
   
5. Status update: should we enable thermald by default? (aday, 11:54:50)
   1. https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/71 (aday, 11:54:52)
   2. dptfxtract processes raw ACPI data into a configuration file that thermald uses (aday, 11:55:01)
   3. Thermald by default? WG is "no" as described, due to non-free dptfxtract, but is willing to explore alternatives (aday, 11:55:15)
   4. ACTION: cmurf to start a discussion on 01.org (aday, 11:55:18)
   5. ACTION: need a volunteer to start a discussion on devel@ about shipping+maintaining configuration files (aday, 11:55:20)
   
   
6. automatically adding new packages when upgrading (aday, 11:55:25)
   1. https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/138 (aday, 11:55:29)
   2. ACTION: cmurf to file a dnf bug (aday, 11:55:37)
   3. ACTION: Neal to followup with Daniel Mach to confirm/deny whether this is a bug (aday, 11:55:39)

Action items

1. cmurf to start a discussion on 01.org
2. need a volunteer to start a discussion on devel@ about shipping+maintaining configuration files
3. cmurf to file a dnf bug
4. Neal to followup with Daniel Mach to confirm/deny whether this is a bug

Action items, by person

1. cmurf
   1. cmurf to start a discussion on 01.org
   2. cmurf to file a dnf bug
2. UNASSIGNED
   1. need a volunteer to start a discussion on devel@ about shipping+maintaining configuration files
   2. Neal to followup with Daniel Mach to confirm/deny whether this is a bug

People present (lines said)

1. aday (57)
2. zodbot (7)
3. cmurf (0)