f40-beta-go-no-go-meeting
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#meeting:fedoraproject.org: F40 Beta Go/No-Go-meeting

Meeting started by @amoloney:fedora.im at 17:01:54 UTC

Meeting summary

  1. INFO: roll call (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:02:45)
  2. INFO: purpose of this meeting (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:08:46)
  3. INFO: Purpose of this meeting is to check whether or not F40 Beta is ready for shipment, according to the release criteria. (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:09:07)
  4. INFO: this is determined in a few ways (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:09:30)
  5. INFO: Release candidate compose is available (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:10:17)
  6. INFO: No remaining blocker bugs (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:10:35)
  7. INFO: Test matrices are complete (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:10:41)
  8. INFO: Fedora CoreOS and IoT are ready (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:10:59)
  9. INFO: Current Status: RC (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:11:09)
  10. INFO: we do have an RC for F40 Beta, moving on to Blocker Status (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:15:46)
  11. INFO: Blockers (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:15:59)
  12. INFO: link https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/40/beta/buglist (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:16:30)
  13. TOPIC:(2269407) Fedora minimal does not boot on Raspberry Pi 4b+ (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:20:33)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269407 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:20:37)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/1522 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:20:41)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, bcm283x-firmware, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:20:43)
    4. AGREED: 2269407 - AcceptedBlocker (Beta) - this is accepted as a violation of "Release-blocking ARM disk images must boot to the initial-setup utility" on the Pi 4b+. Minimal is a release-blocking image, and Pi 4s are release-blocking ARM devices (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:32:11)
  14. TOPIC:(2269373) Fedora Media Writer (Windows Version) writes images that fail the checksum check on boot (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:32:30)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269373 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:32:33)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/1520 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:32:37)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, mediawriter, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:32:40)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: BetaBlocker (+0,0,-3) (-geraldosimiao, -kparal, -sgallagh) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:32:43)
    5. AGREED: 2269373 - RejectedBlocker (Beta) - this is rejected as not violating any release criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:35:27)
    6. INFO: other outstanding, unaddressed blockers: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:36:13)
    7. INFO: (2267968) Raspberry Pi 400 shows nothing on screen when booting Fedora 40 images (even before grub) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:36:34)
    8. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267968 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:36:38)
    9. INFO: (2269385) rhgb breaks custom/minimal install on most filesystem layouts (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:36:48)
    10. LINK: !link https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269385 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:36:52)
    11. INFO: (2113005) Live image made with BOOTX64.EFI from latest shim-x64-15.6-2 fails to boot on some boards (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:37:00)
    12. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2113005 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:37:06)
    13. INFO: (2259264) Fedora fails to boot via BOOT/bootaa64->fbaa64 on UEFI machines with EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_PROTOCOL (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:37:18)
    14. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259264 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:37:21)
  15. TOPIC:F40 Beta Go/No-Go decision (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:47:51)
    1. AGREED: The Fedora Linux 40 Beta is NO-GO (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:50:22)
    2. INFO: The next F40 Beta Go/No-Go meeting will be on Thursday 21st March @ 1700 UTC (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:50:59)
    3. INFO: F40 Beta will now shift to target date #2: Tuesday 2024-03-26 (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:51:34)
    4. ACTION: amoloney to announce decision and adjust schedule (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:52:05)
  16. TOPIC:Open Floor (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:52:50)
    1. IDEA: #proposed: try to do a retrospective of the F40 release (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:02:31)


Meeting ended at 18:17:11 UTC

Action items

  1. amoloney to announce decision and adjust schedule


People present (lines said)

  1. @adamwill:fedora.im (83)
  2. @amoloney:fedora.im (53)
  3. @nirik:matrix.scrye.com (24)
  4. @lruzicka:matrix.org (17)
  5. @geraldosimiao:matrix.org (16)
  6. @sgallagh:fedora.im (14)
  7. @nhanlon:beeper.com (14)
  8. @zodbot:fedora.im (10)
  9. @frantisekz:fedora.im (7)
  10. @jskladan:fedora.im (5)
  11. @bittin:fedora.im (3)
  12. @pwhalen:fedora.im (3)
  13. @jnsamyak:matrix.org (3)
  14. @meetbot:fedora.im (2)
  15. @coremodule:fedora.im (1)