f43-final-go-no-go-meeting
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#meeting:fedoraproject.org: F43 Final Go/No-Go meeting

Meeting started by @amoloney:fedora.im at 17:01:38 UTC

Meeting summary

  1. TOPIC:Roll Call (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:02:03)
  2. TOPIC:Purpose of this meeting (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:04:53)
    1. INFO: Purpose of this meeting is to check whether or not F43 Final is ready for shipment, according to the release criteria. (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:05:01)
    2. INFO: This is determined in a few ways: (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:05:44)
  3. TOPIC:Current status - RC (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:06:17)
    1. INFO: We have RC-1.6 available and will review this for release readiness (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:09:53)
    2. INFO: under review, we have two RCs. We will consider RC-1.5 and RC-1.6 for release readiness (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:11:12)
  4. TOPIC:Current status - blockers (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:11:24)
    1. LINK: https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/43/final/buglist (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:11:33)
    2. INFO: This section will be led by Fedora QA (@amoloney:fedora.im, 17:11:50)
    3. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2003 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:12:16)
    4. INFO: Proposed Blocker, mbedtls, MODIFIED (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:12:16)
    5. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+1,0,-3) (+lruzicka, -leigh123linux, -adamwill, -derekenz) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:12:16)
    6. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+2,0,-0) (+kparal, +derekenz) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:12:16)
  5. TOPIC:(2405239) CVE-2025-54764 mbedtls: Mbedtls timing attacks in RSA operations [fedora-41] (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:12:16)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2405239 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:12:16)
    2. AGREED: 2405239 - RejectedBlocker (Final) - this is rejected as our evaluation is that nothing in Workstation or KDE actually uses the vulnerable RSA code, thus there is no practical "security bugs of 'important' or higher impact" that cannot be resolved with an update (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:21:43)
    3. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+4,0,-6) (+pbrobinson, +derekenz, +asciiwolf, +lruzicka, -kparal, -adamwill, -nielsenb, -sgallagh, -geraldosimiao, -leigh123linux) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:21:59)
  6. TOPIC:(2402621) [abrt] gnome-session: __syscall_cancel_arch(): gnome-session-service killed by SIGABRT after systemd timeout during initial install. (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:21:59)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2402621 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:21:59)
    2. INFO: Proposed Blocker, selinux-policy, ASSIGNED (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:21:59)
    3. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/1995 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:21:59)
    4. AGREED: 2402621 - RejectedBlocker (Final) - this is rejected on the basis it does not violate any criteria and does not seem to have any significant practical consequences. pbrobinson's pinebook pro failure is currently tracked separately, will come up later in the meeting (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:37:24)
    5. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2405144 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:37:46)
    6. INFO: Proposed Blocker, gnome-shell, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:37:46)
    7. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2005 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:37:46)
  7. TOPIC:(2405144) GNOME login prompt does not appear on Pinebook Pro (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:37:46)
    1. AGREED: 2405144 - RejectedBlocker (Final) - this is rejected as a blocker on the basis that the report is lacking sufficient details to make an evaluation, and now ARM hardware coverage is handled as a subjective evaluation, our subjective evaluation is that we're not sufficiently worried about the Pinebook Pro to hold up the release while we wait for details to show up (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:47:58)
  8. TOPIC:(2405872) Installing KDE Live with French keyboard layout results in US layout at decryption prompt and console (due to invalid "KEYMAP=fr (oss)" in vconsole.conf) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:48:28)
    1. INFO: Accepted Blocker, anaconda-webui, VERIFIED (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:48:28)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2004 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:48:28)
    3. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2405872 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:48:28)
    4. INFO: this is technically 'accepted', but we treated that as a provisional decision and I'd like the group to consider it (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:48:44)
    5. AGREED: 2405872 - AcceptedBlocker (Final) - provisional accepted blocker status is confirmed by wider vote (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:28)
    6. INFO: testing so far indicates the duct-tape fix for this in RC-1.6 should hold together sufficiently (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:58:58)
  9. TOPIC:(2394213) default hostonly-mode "sloppy" results in significant increase in initramfs size (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:59:20)
    1. INFO: Accepted Blocker, dracut, ON_QA (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:59:20)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/1925 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:59:20)
    3. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2394213 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:59:20)
    4. INFO: based on the data in recent bug comments, it seems like we've done as much as we practically can here (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:03:41)
    5. INFO: all other accepted blockers are listed as VERIFIED so we will not check them individually (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:03:57)
    6. INFO: with the decisions made, all blockers are addressed in RC-1.6, but not in RC-1.5 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:09:30)
  10. TOPIC:Current status - test matrices (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:13:38)
    1. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_43_Test_Results (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:13:47)
  11. TOPIC:Some tests are underway live during the meeting for Workstation on aarch64. The meeting will resume shortly with a conclusion for test coverage for RC-1.6 (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:20:13)
    1. INFO: The meeting has resumed following some last minute testing. We will now determine if there is enough test coverage to proceed with the Go/No-Go (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:34:59)
    2. INFO: There is sufficient test coverage in place for RC-1.6 for F43 Final. We will continue to release readiness check with CoreOS and IoT (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:38:55)
  12. TOPIC:Fedora CoreOS / IoT check-in (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:39:10)
    1. INFO: Fedora CoreOS and Fedora IoT have confirmed release readiness (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:40:47)
  13. TOPIC:Go/No-Go decision (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:41:28)
    1. INFO: I will now poll FESCo, Releng and QA for a Go or No-Go decision (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:41:51)
    2. AGREED: Fedora Linux 43 Final is GO (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:42:41)
    3. INFO: Fedora Linux 43 Final will release on the current target date 2025-10-28 (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:42:54)
    4. ACTION: @amoloney to announce decision (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:43:08)
    5. ACTION: nirik to note the absence of the UKI image in 1.6 compose over in the release day coordination room (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:46:21)
  14. TOPIC:Open Floor (@amoloney:fedora.im, 18:46:25)
    1. INFO: The Flock Organizing Team is making an open call for feedback on the CFP themes for Flock 2026 to the four governance bodies of Fedora. Since this meeting is a collection of many folks who are in these bodies, this is a request to please take the following issues/tickets back to your respective committees for discussion. The deadline is Tuesday, 11 November 2025. (@jflory7:fedora.im, 18:46:56)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/545 (@jflory7:fedora.im, 18:47:03)
    3. LINK: https://gitlab.com/fedora/mindshare/home/-/issues/86 (@jflory7:fedora.im, 18:47:03)
    4. LINK: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3493 (@jflory7:fedora.im, 18:47:03)
    5. LINK: https://pagure.io/epel/issue/353 (@jflory7:fedora.im, 18:47:03)
    6. LINK: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-council-tickets-ticket-545-request-for-review-of-flock-2026-cfp-themes-by-2025-11-11/169779 (@jflory7:fedora.im, 18:49:44)


Meeting ended at 18:51:43 UTC

Action items

  1. @amoloney to announce decision
  2. nirik to note the absence of the UKI image in 1.6 compose over in the release day coordination room


People present (lines said)

  1. @adamwill:fedora.im (149)
  2. @amoloney:fedora.im (76)
  3. @sgallagh:fedora.im (31)
  4. @lruzicka:fedora.im (21)
  5. @nirik:matrix.scrye.com (21)
  6. @jflory7:fedora.im (18)
  7. @jlinton:fedora.im (18)
  8. @decathorpe:fedora.im (15)
  9. @derekenz:fedora.im (12)
  10. @zodbot:fedora.im (10)
  11. @boniboyblue:fedora.im (5)
  12. @Lihis:matrix.org (2)
  13. @meetbot:fedora.im (2)
  14. @pwhalen:fedora.im (2)
  15. @smooge:fedora.im (1)
  16. @dustymabe:matrix.org (1)




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