Meeting Minutes 2024
- Wednesday, Nov 27, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Server Poll
AGREED: The Fedora Server poll should start Dec. 10 24 and run until Feb 18 25
The survey will be available at https://fedoraproject.limequery.com/fedora-server-f41 when it has been transferred into the Fedora space.
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Ansible assisted installation and configuration of NFS service
@jwhimpel plans to update the current repo. Then we can start testing and reviewing. He will announce the update on the mailing list.
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Actions summary
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@jflory7 due:2024-12-04 Import mowest’s LimeSurvey survey into the Fedora LimeSurvey instance and set it to public
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mowest and pboy will write in FedMag article in time with the poll planning
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eseyman will post on the mailing list inviting people to fill out the survey when the poll is online
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- Wednesday, November 20, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Future release testing procedures
AGREED pboy writes the draft of a document that describes our test strategy.
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- Wednesday, November 13, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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KVM image migration to KIWI
AGREED: The KVM image will be migrated to KIWI now, the adjustment of the naming will de dealt with later together with the isos.
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PostgreSQL – is our automatic testing sufficient?
No decision yet.
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Actions summary
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ON HOLD pboy will file an issue with releng regarding installation media
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ONGOING pboy will close bug #2247872 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247872)
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ONGOING pboy will write a draft issue for the goal "file server" as a base for further finetuning and detailed specification
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ONGOING jwhimnpel will develop a Ansible playbook for NFS service
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PENDING eseyman review John’s playbooks
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DONE eseyman will monitor the change list for possible issues which may affect Server
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DONE mowest will reach out to AdamW and discuss how we can use the result tables.
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DONE pboy will create a tracking issue and copy the table of F 40 as a starting point.
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DONE Mowest will create a Lime survey version of the discussed draft and reach out to Justin to put the project forward.
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PENDING Mowest will write a 1st draft of an article about our poll.
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- Wednesday, November 06, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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New Anaconda installer for Server
In F42, only workstation will benefit from the new Anaconda WEB UI. Before Server can use it, a lot of missing functionality remains to get developed. Workstation will switch to RDP instead of VNC. For remote interactive installation, on the kernel line the parameter inst.vnc is replaced by inst.rdp.
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Current status and further advancement of server docs
Thanks to Paul Maconi we have our first entry in the "Fedora Server in a virtualized runtime environment" project about installing on Proxmox. Emmanuel will review.
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- Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Follow-up actions & announcements
ACTION: Mowest will write a 1st draft of an article about our poll.
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Ansible assisted installation and configuration of NFS service
NFS 4 is working now, NFS server is running, as well as NFS client. Both need some tweaking.
AGREED Regarding Ansible / NFS we will study and test what we have and continue on meeting in 2 weeks.
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Looking back at testing release 41
AGREED: We discuss this during the next 2-3 weeks on mailing list and try to determine a final plan. One issue to take into account is the lack of test equipment.
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Current membership status and clean up process
Our official current list is here: +!link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server
We have 7 members that never showed even up for the last 2 years. Qur usual procedure is to contact them and ask, what they are planning. And perhaps agree to retreat. And then we should take an initiative to get 1-2 new members. Maybe as part of our upcoming poll.
AGREED: pboy will start to contact dormant members.
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Actions summary
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Mowest will write a 1st draft of an article about our poll.
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- Wednesday, October 23, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Testing Release 41
After a short reading break postponed to next meeting.
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Server user poll
Justin joined us and made an appointment with Mowest to take things further. So we’ll be able to start soon.
AGREED: We finally use the version as now online, i.e. without an "other" option for "How are you using Fedora Server?"
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New Business: Generation of the Server KVM image
With release 42 we will switch to KIWI. ImageFactory is no longer support nor available at all. Current efforts:
AGREED:Server WG agrees to switch to KIWI (4:0:0)
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Actions summary
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DONE: pboy will write an updated summary about our release 4 testing and we continue on mailing list and next meeting.
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DONE: pboy will write a summary of the current state of our poll on the mailing list and we continue on mailing list and next meeting.
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- Wednesday, October 16, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Testing Release 41
We agree that manual testing of our installation media and procedures is necessary, and some of this is already included in the test plans. Furthermore, it would be desirable to tailor the test announcement for servers more closely to server issues.
ACTION: pboy will write an updated summary about our release 4 testing and we continue on mailing list and next meeting
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Server user poll
Mowest has requested access to the Fedora Limesurvey instance through Gitlab. Furthermore, he created a draft of our survey in a free account of Limesurvey (https://mowest.limesurvey.net/778249?lang=en).
ACTION: pboy will write a summary of the current state of our poll on the mailing list and we continue on mailing list and next meeting.
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Actions summary
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pboy will write an updated summary about our release 4 testing and we continue on mailing list and next meeting.
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pboy will write a summary of the current state of our poll on the mailing list and we continue on mailing list and next meeting.
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- Wednesday, October 02, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Testing Release 41
We still have to test installation on SBCs. Eseyman will take this on.
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Server user poll
Mowest had no success yet in pushing the poll through the other Fedora instances. We can’t make any progress in the current state without that.
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- Wednesday, September 25, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Server user poll
We decided to use the current version with all inserted modifications and with the shorter of the formulated alternatives on hackmd.io.
Mowest will create a Lime survey version of the discussed draft and reach out to Justin to put the project forward.
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Testing Release 41
We agreed to continue the discussion on the mailing list due to running out of time here. See pboy: Improving our release testing efforts. An attempt to summarize our discussion
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Actions summary
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ONGOING: eseyman will monitor the change list for possible issues which may affect Serve
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New: Mowest will create a Lime survey version of the discussed draft and reach out to Justin to put the project forward.
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- Wednesday, September 18, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Testing Release 41
The discussion focused on optimizing our approach to release testing. There was agreement on the one hand that the test program should be integrated into the distribution QA, and on the other hand that tests of individual functionalities should be automated. Irrespective of this, there is a need for manual testing, particularly of the (hardware) installation media.
Action: pboy will create a summary on the mailing list, which will be the basis for further discussion.
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Server user poll
We finally agreed on 4 goals:
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Who is the audience for Fedora Server
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Where is Fedora Server primarily used: Hardware or VM
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What are the main use cases for Fedora Server
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Where are future efforts of the Fedora Server WG best applied
A final version is to be decided at the next meeting.
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Actions summary
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ACTION: ONGOING eseyman will monitor the change list for possible issues which may affect Server
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ACTION: DONE mowest will reach out to AdamW and discuss how we can use the result tables.
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- Wednesday, September 04, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Ansible assisted installation and configuration of NFS service
Jwhimpel has finished a first version of the Ansible code including a short documentation. We will discuss this in detail at the next meeting when all members have been able to test it.
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Testing Release 41
Ticket #144 is available for the test. Based on a discussion with adamw, pboy will create a draft test description in the Fedora Server Wiki area. The aim is to automate as much as possible.
Eseyman has created a list of potentially problematic changes, see addendum to the invitation. The list will also be added to the ticket. We will discuss it at the next meeting.
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Actions summary
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ACTION: ONGOING eseyman will monitor the change list for possible issues which may affect Server
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ACTION: DONE pboy will create a tracking issue and copy the table of F 40 as a starting point.
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ACTION: ONGOING mowest will reach out to AdamW and discuss how we can use the result tables.
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- Wednesday, August 28, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Ansible assisted installation and configuration of NFS service
The server roles are basically working. Jwhimpel will add some documentation how to use (and test) it. There are some topics we will have to decide after everyone could use it, e.g. type of mounts. On the client side, we tend to only support and handle Fedora.
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Testing Release 41
We decided to use the same procedure as last time (F40) for now.
ACTION: eseyman will monitor the change list for possible issues which may affect Server
ACTION: pboy will create a tracking issue and copy the table of F 40 as a starting point.
We want to systematize the process and make greater use of the Fedora options, e.g. the results tables that are created for each build.
ACTION: mowest will reach out to AdamW and discuss how we can use the result tables.
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Actions summary
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ACTION: DONE pboy will create 2 empty docs for installation & configuration to the repo, then everyone can add relevant topics to it and migrate the current integrated doc.
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ACTION: DONE pboy will add all WG core members as committers to our pagure repo.
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ACTION: eseyman will monitor the change list for possible issues which may affect Server
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ACTION: pboy will create a tracking issue and copy the table of F 40 as a starting point.
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ACTION: mowest will reach out to AdamW and discuss how we can use the result tables.
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- Wednesday, August 21, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Follow-up, findings and conclusions from Flock 2024
Eseyman gave an overview of his impressions and experiences.
One wish that was expressed was to use Fedora as a router, similar to OpenWRT. It was agreed that this is not possible within the framework of Fedora Server, as the requirements for system and data security are too different.
One positive feedback was that Fedora was the slowest moving as well as the most backward compatible, and nevertheless with always up-to-date versions of the server software bits, of the Fedora project. A most welcome characteristic of our goals for Fedora Server Edition.
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Optimizing NFS service documentation
jwhimpel will start to add topics the the empty doc templates when he completed the first version of the Ansible code.
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Actions summary
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DONE eseyman will post Flock recap to the list.
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DONE jednorozec will implement the patch to bug #2247872
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- Wednesday, August 14, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Follow-up, findings and conclusions from Flock 2024
We considered a number of different topics that were discussed. By and large, our current course in the further development of Fedora Server Edition has proven itself. The most important change will be the implementation of Ansible for our special supported services (previous server roles).
Everyone agrees that getting to know each other and discussing goals and next steps in person was a hugely positive experience and a tremendous motivational boost.Nothing else can replace that. Flock was very, very worthwhile and all the effort was very rewarding. Flock next year is already a positive expectation.
ACTION: eseyman will post his Flock recap to the list.
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Ansible assisted installation and configuration of NFS service
We decided to do the development in stg branch and add the directory structure there, too.
AGREED: Regarding distribution we prefer the rpm path of action.
ACTION: eseyman review John’s playbooks
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Actions summary
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ONGOING pboy will write a draft issue for the goal "file server" as a base for further finetuning and detailed specification
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PENDING pboy will create a hackmd draft for a collection of questions about Fedora Server in a virtualized environment
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PENDING mowest will come up with a plan and steps to conduct the survey on discussion – waiting for a draft of collection of questions
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NEW jednorozec will implement the patch to bug #2247872
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- Wednesday, July 31, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Ansible assisted installation and configuration of NFS service
We discussed again about the specific goal we want to achive with the Ansible Playbook.
AGREED Server WG agrees to the goal as defined in comment https://pagure.io/fedora-server/issue/138#comment-920322 to issue 138
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Optimizing NFS service documentation
We want to split the current NFS draft in 2 parts: Installation and Configuration.
ACTION DONE: pboy will create 2 empty docs for installation & configuration to the repo
AGREED to postpone this until we have a working version of the Ansible playbook.
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Actions summary
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DONE pboy will add all WG core members as committers to our pagure repo.
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DONE pboy will create 2 empty docs for installation & configuration to the repo
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CANCELED pboy will close bug #2247872 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247872) – There is still an ongoing discussion about improving Server first boot process.
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ONGOING pboy will write a draft issue for the goal "file server" as a base for further finetuning and detailed specification
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- Wednesday, July 24, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Renaming distribution media for Fedora Server
AGREED: We defer the renaming until RelEng has decided about the future Fedora tool set AND has updated the documentation.
ACTION: canceled pboy will file an issue with releng regarding installation media
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Ansible assisted installation and configuration of NFS service
Eseyman has packed the the robertdebock roles in an rpm : https://eseyman.fedorapeople.org/ansible-robertdebock-roles/. It’s an alternative to the current Fedora standard package. Jwhimple has 4 roles ready, but can’t upload due to permission issues and incomplete Server repo configuration.
ACTION: pboy will add all WG core members as committers to our pagure repo.
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Optimizing NFS service documentation
We want to split the current NFS draft in 2 parts: Installation and (Basic) Configuration. Jwhimpel will start do add at löeast bullet point to outline the intended information. To support this, pboy will add correspoding empty files. We agreed to document the process using Ansible and by using manually CLI. Whether and how we take Cockpit into account is still to be decided.
ACTION: pboy will create 2 empty docs for installation & configuration to the repo, then everyone can add relevant topics to it and migrate the current integrated doc.
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Actions summary
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ACTION: new pboy will add all WG core members as committers to our pagure repo.
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ACTION: new pboy will create 2 empty docs for installation & configuration to the repo, then everyone can add relevant topics to it and migrate the current integrated doc.
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ACTION: canceled pboy will file an issue with releng regarding installation media
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- Wednesday, July 17, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Ansible assisted installation and configuration of NFS service
Discussed the specific goal of this work. Agreed to focus on a playbook for commen/default use case and provide hooks to extend to further local use cases.
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Fedora Server in a virtualized runtime environment
We agreed to start with a poll and ask users how they use Fedora Server Edition and what they are missing in the first place. Mowest and pboy will work on it.
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Actions summary
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ACTION: pboy will create a hackmd draft for a collection of questions about Fedora Server in a virtualized environment
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ACTION: mowest will come up with a plan and steps to conduct the survey on discussion
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- Wednesday, July 10, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
We had an open discussion about ongoing activities.
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Humaton started to check out Kiwi to create Server iso distributables. There is a SuSE add-on to achieve that.
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Humaton will care about ticket #114, which is an undecided long standing issue regarding LLMR.
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- Wednesday, July 03, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Change to a weekly meeting schedule
AGREED: Server WG switches to a weekly meeting
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Ansible assisted installation and configuration of NFS service
jwhimnpel will provide 2 Ansible roles in about 2 weeks for further discussion and testing.
eseyman and mowest will work on improving the current docs draft.
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Actions summary
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pboy will file an issue with releng regarding installation media - pending
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pboy will close bug #2247872 - pending because of ongoing work
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pboy will write a draft issue for the goal "file server" as a base for further finetuning and detailed specification - ongoing
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jwhimpel will provide 2 Ansible roles for NFS service
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eseyman and mowest will start reviewing the currnt NFS doc draft
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- Wednesday, June 26, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
We had an open discussion about our various ongoing works.
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- Wednesday, June 19, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Ansible assisted installation and configuration of NFS service
We discussed the results of a short poll about the documentation part and how to improve the current article. Amoung others we want to split into installation and configuration and in each part describe the manual procedure and the Ansible usage.
We will add a new subdirectory to our repo for Ansible scripts.
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Actions summary
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Action: pboy will create an additional directory fedora-ansible in fedora-server repo
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- Wednesday, June 12, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Elevating Fedora Server VM distribution image
Jason will start to elevate Fedora Server VM distribution image to a release requirement as the other Server installation images
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Fixing the "Everything" installation medium problem
AGREED: Server WG agrees that the Fedora Server option has to be removed from the Everything Install medium in the long term.
W’ll pick this up again as soon as we have free resources.
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- Wednesday, June 05, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Fedora Server goal(s) and "story" for F41 / F42
AGREED: WG’s goal is to provide a spin "local or public file server (NFS, Samba, Ansible support)
AGREED: WG’s goal is to improve the use of Fedora Server in a VPS infrastructure and to promote it as a standard offering.
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Actions summary
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Action: pboy will write a draft issue for the goal "file server" as a base for further finetuning and detailed specification.
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- Wednesday, May 01, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Revisiting Server installation media naming convention
AGREED: Server WG decides to rename the installation media: DVD → offline , netboot → online, KVM → virt, and rawsbc for ARM raw image.
AGREED: Server WG decides on a consistent naming convention according to the scheme: "Fedora-Server-<rel>-<method>-<arch>-<version>.<filetype>"
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Elevating Fedora Server VM distribution image
jwhimpel will check the details of the procedure and report back next meeting.
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Open Floor
We will start to discuss and develop NFS service supported by documentation and by Ansible.
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Actions summary
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Action: pboy will file an issue with releng.
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- Wednesday, Apr 17, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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LVM2 configuration & ARM SBC installation
The issue is resolved, but but - as Vojtech Trefny, one of ghe maintgainers, put it - "unfortunately not thanks to the changes that I made".
AGREED: Server WG considers the case closed.
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Testing F40
AGREED: Server WG considers F40 ready for publication and closes this topic.
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Our "story" for F40
AGREED: Regarding our "story" for F40 we stick sich ARM SBC.
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Our "Fedora Server goal(s) and "story" for F41 / F42
See: issue #134
We narrowed the options down to "Fedora Server VM as VPS", "Server Edition as identity server ", and "Server Edition as local or public file server ".
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Actions summary
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Action: pboy will close bug #2247872
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- Wednesday, Apr 03, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Review installation media
The discussion revealed obvious inconsistencies between the ways of creating our various installation media that have evolved over time. All of this is difficult to deal with in a matrix discussion. Therefore:
AGREED: An additional meeting out of turn on Wednesday, April 10, 17:00 UTC in the Matrix Sever room exclusively to discuss the Review Installation Media topic.
ACTION: pboy will prepare the room and provide a test opportunity.
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Testing F40
No additional issues found yet, but not all planned tests have been carried out yet.
It is unclear how and where the test results should be merged on the server test page. Pboy will contact Adam about this.
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Revisiting Server installation media naming convention
The online/offline proposal is welcomed, but the overall solution should be presented more clearly.
A decision will be aimed for by mid-May at the latest so that there is sufficient time for implementation.
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- Wednesday, Mar 20, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Follow-up actions & announcements
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We will first discuss a possible change to the time of our meetings on the mailing list and decide at the next meeting.
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LVM2 configuration
The /etc/lvm/devices directory in Fedora-Server-KVM-40_Beta-1.9.x86_64.qcow2 is empty now. So far no check whether First Boot generates a suitable entry.
INFO update: Beta 1.10 contains a devices file in both server images (KVM and aarch64 SBC). So the issue is not resolved yet.
Action: cooltshirtguy will monitor and check the aarch64 SBC image, specifically Raspberry Pi.
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F40 release tests
We have selected items to be tested and allocated work. Details at
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Open Floor
!info: Unfortunately, no movement on the Apache / httpd configuration layout yet
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- Wednesday, Mar 06, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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Follow-up actions & announcements
We are discussing how to equalize the times of the meetings of the Server WG and the Epel Team to enable everyone to participate in both. To be continued on the mailing list.
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Review installation media
An initial analysis has revealed a number of warning messages about comps files not being found. Details in:
Agreed: Sever WG will check the current compose groups in issues on fedora-server repo.
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LVM2 configuration & ARM SBC installation
The arm-image-installer script is fixed.
The LVM configuration issue is still open.
This issue is not accepted as release blocker. So it can happen that we release a kind of crap image for the 2nd time in a row.
But LVM group seems to be working hard on it.
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F40 Change Set items requiring our attention
Eseyman generated a list of items requiring our attention
Agreed: Server WG will continue to discuss this topic on mailing list
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Open Floor
Nothing to discuss today.
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- Wednesday, Feb 21, 2024
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Our first meeting on Matrix.
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Essentials at a glance
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Review installation media
We are trying here for more then 2 years for now without a lot or results. At Fosdem I met Tomáš, who is very experienced in release engineering (to put it a bit understated) and who has offered to help us with this. This is a great opportunity for Fedora Server Edition.
After an initial discussion about necessary and desired changes, we agreed that Tomáš would further analyze the current configuration files and compile them in a blog or on the server list.
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Revisiting Server installation media naming convention
The various server installation media are (still) named very differently. But it is now too late for a change to Release 40.
Agreed: We further discuss naming convention on mailing list and aim to make a final decision in 4 weeks latest. And then it is up to releng to find a workable timeframe. There is no urgency.
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LVM2 default configuration change
The issue is currently not resolved.
A proper resolution will involve an anaconda fix as well as a fix in arm-image-installer. We will continue to work on it.
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Open Floor
Cloud Sig will stop to maintain ImageFactory. For F41 we have to select another tool for building the non-iso images. Probable choices are Lorax, KIWI, or OSBuild, depending on what is supported in pungi and what artifacts are supported by the different tools.
Neil would support a move to Kiwi if we decide to do so. We want to make a final decision once releng has decided on available and supported options.
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- Wednesday, Feb 07, 2024
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Continuing the Jan 31 meeting
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Essentials at a glance
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LVM2 default configuration change
We finally got information about the reasons for the changes in LVM default configuration and proper ways to resolve the ARM SBC installation issue.
In short we should retain the current default LVM configuration which includes a system.devices file and adjust the arm-image-installer script und our documentation.
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Test planning for F40
We have set up a list of manually "smoke tests". We now need working group members or other interested parties to take over some of the tests and enter their FAS names in the corresponding column.
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Open Floor
We will switch our meetings from IRC to Matrix starting February 21, provided we can make the necessary organizational arrangements in time.
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Actions summary
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eseyman will check the change proposal set for items we should aware of and care about.
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- Wednesday, Jan 31, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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LVM2 default configuration change
Currently the default LVM configuration results in vgscan and vgchange not inspecting new devices that are not listed in /etc/lvm/devices/system.devices. A follow-up to this is also the error when creating aarch64 SBC filesystem images.
There was neither a change proposal nor a release notes entry for the configuration change, nor any announcement. Accordingly, it is also not known why the change was made.
ACTION: eseyman will try to contact the maintainers and get information why the change was made.
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Test planning for F40
We will continue discussion next meeting
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A "story" for each release
We will continue discussion next meeting
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Actions summary
New business
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pboy will create a thread on mailing list to discuss the option for LVM fix.
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jwhimpel will try to contact linux-lvm@lists.linux.dev
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pboy will create a draft wiki page to help to organise and coordinate our release testing efforts.
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- Wednesday, Jan 17, 2024
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Essentials at a glance
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LVM configuration issues
Currently the default LVM configuration results in vgscan and vgchange not inspecting new devices that are not listed in /etc/lvm/devices/system.devices. A follow-up to this is also the error when creating aarch64 SBC filesystem images.
There was neither a change proposal nor a release notes entry for the configuration change, nor any announcement. Accordingly, it is also not known why the change was made.
ACTION: eseyman will try to contact the maintainers and get information why the change was made.
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Test planning for F40
We will continue discussion next meeting
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Actions summary
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pboy will write a info about changing the timeout value and nirik will review – still work in progress
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mowest will take care of discussed modifications of the Server download page. - still work in progress
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eseyman will try to contact the maintainers and get information why the change was made.
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