Meeting Minutes 2026

Stephen Daley, Peter Boy

Wednesday, September 09, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • F45 release testing ( Beta)

      INFO: As a preliminary conclusion about installation testing: there are currently no problems in sight, except perhaps for aarch64.

    • Ticket "Whats New in Fedora Server for F45"

      INFO: For an F45 announcement, we might be able to make use of our web service improvements, or perhaps even the postinstallation Ansible tool. We will try to start an off-meeting discussion at Fridays about Ansible progress.

    • Ticket "Collection of this group’s data for a LLM-powered weekly report

      INFO: The working group will discuss the topic of the ‘weekly report’ in more detail during a discussion in the Matrix room. (Friday 11 from about 17:00 UTC, open end)

    • Revision of the Fedora Server documentation

      AGREED: To set things in motion, WG agrees to create a new postinstallation section as decided and relocate the current article in into this section as is. We then start to split out the intended articles step by step.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ONGOING MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    2. ONGOING pboy will implement the Fedocal workarount for providing meeting location address

    3. ONGOING John Himpel and Jocelyn Gould check for NFS connection issue from F44 to F45

    4. ONGOING Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    5. ONGOING pboy will contact the Cockpit team regarding the packages in the VM module that are unnecessary for servers.

    6. ONGOING Brett will develop a very first draft of a docs article as proposed in #255

    7. ONGOING @pboy to take mariadb & mysql feature tickets; and to work on RAID1 and Arm based tickets for install testing

    8. NEW pboy to create the new postinstallation section.

Wednesday, September 02, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • F45 release testing

      INFO: No new issues found so far.

    • Revision of the Fedora Server documentation

      AGREED: New section name: Postinstallation Customizations

      AGREED: New section position: 2nd after Installation

      WE’ll start a voting in the Ticket about the new article names in this section.

      AGREED: We leave the current navigation bar naming as it is now (after various modifications already done) and close ticket #224.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ONGOING MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    2. ONGOING pboy will implement the Fedocal workarount for providing meeting location address

    3. ONGOING John Himpel and Jocelyn Gould check for NFS connection issue from F44 to F45

    4. ONGOING Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    5. ONGOING pboy will contact the Cockpit team regarding the packages in the VM module that are unnecessary for servers.

    6. ONGOING Brett will develop a very first draft of a docs article as proposed in #255

    7. ONGOING @pboy to take mariadb & mysql feature tickets; and to work on RAID1 and Arm based tickets for install testing

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • F45 release testing ( branched)

      INFO: kmscon issue is unrelated to Server and not present in KVM install

      INFO: When taking feature tickets for f45, please move the feature ticket into To Do and assign to yourself

      ACTION: @pboy to take mariadb & mysql feature tickets; and to work on RAID1 and Arm based tickets for install testing

    • Project Ansible support

      INFO: We currently have two modules that are suitable for a pilot scheme and are almost complete: post-install and Wildfly. Both are expected to be ready for a beta user test within the next two to three weeks.

      ACTION: Brett will develop a very first draft of a docs article as proposed in #255

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ONGOING MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    2. ONGOING pboy will implement the Fedocal workarount for providing meeting location address

    3. ONGOING John Himpel and Jocelyn Gould check for NFS connection issue from F44 to F45

    4. ONGOING Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    5. ONGOING pboy will contact the Cockpit team regarding the packages in the VM module that are unnecessary for servers.

    6. DONE Ro will organize the discussion of relevant changes in the ticket system.

    7. ONGOING pboy will summarise the discussion in a ticket.

    8. NEW Brett will develop a very first draft of a docs article as proposed in #255

    9. NEW @pboy to take mariadb & mysql feature tickets; and to work on RAID1 and Arm based tickets for install testing

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • F45 release testing ( branched)

      ACTION: Ro will organize the discussion of relevant changes in the ticket system.

      INFO: We continue the discussion of the effect of relevant changes next meeting, based on the ticket(s) created by Ro.

    • Project Ansible support – New layout for the ansible-support repository

      INFO: @eseyman will complete the post-install Ansible support work. It will at the same time server as a live demo how we can distribute our Ansible support code.

    • Fedora Server documentation – various items

      AGREED: The working group has agreed to split the current ‘post-installation’ article into several shorter and more specific articles in a separate subdirectory. Today’s proposal will be developed further in a ticket.

      ACTION: pboy will summarise the discussion in a ticket.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ONGOING MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    2. ONGOING pboy will implement the Fedocal workarount for providing meeting location address

    3. ONGOING John Himpel and Jocelyn Gould check for NFS connection issue from F44 to F45

    4. ONGOING Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    5. ONGOING pboy will contact the Cockpit team regarding the packages in the VM module that are unnecessary for servers.

    6. NEW Ro will organize the discussion of relevant changes in the ticket system.

    7. NEW pboy will summarise the discussion in a ticket.

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • Announcments

      • The Fedora 45 release has been branched today. We have to adjust our testing.

      • Group-wide CI/CD runners are now available for the first time.

      • Work on DNF documentation is ongoing.

    • F45 release testing (branched)

      pboy will update the test cases.

      Conan_kudo is still fixing the partition type issue in the distribution images. There is some irritation about the relevanz regarding MBR and/or GPT.

      All members should familiarise themselves with the change list created by eseyman in preparation for the next meeting.

    • home server spin-off: creating a Kiwi development environment

      INFO: Every member please walk through the README in https://forge.fedoraproject.org/server/home-server/ and tell Brett (https://matrix.to/#/@brettweir:matrix.org) whether it was successful or not.

    • Restructure Documentation – Split postinstall & new subdir use cases

      AGREED: We will create a new section "use cases" and move all use-case files and the files in "tutorials" therein. The section Tutorials will be deleted.

      We will discuss the matter of splitting the post-installation article in detail in the ticket, with a view to finding a solution in time for the next meeting.

      INFO: Status on PXEBoot is that the dnsmasq doc is comprehensive now. We need coverage on Kickstart for this to be worthwhile. And we need to do a reference topic in the install guide that points to dnsmasq and kickstart for more information. Possibly with some suggestion to set up a web-server to host the kickstart file and possibly act as a mirror. To be discussed next meeting.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ONGOING MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    2. ONGOING pboy will implement the Fedocal workarount for providing meeting location address

    3. ONGOING John Himpel and Jocelyn Gould check for NFS connection issue from F44 to F45

    4. ONGOING Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    5. ONGOING pboy will contact the Cockpit team regarding the packages in the VM module that are unnecessary for servers.

Wednesday, August 05, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • Announcements

      Over the last two weeks, we have voted on the admission of Brett and Rowan. The respective results for both are +7 | ±0 | -0 (Tickets 226 and 226 respectively). Both are therefore officially admitted to our working group. We now have 13 members.

    • F45 release testing (rawhide)

      Testing for the current test build is almost complete.The VM test is currently failing due to an incorrect partition type. Neil will fix it.

      The extensive list of useless dependencies for the Cockpit Machines module remains a nuisance.

      Action: pboy will contact the Cockpit team regarding the packages in the VM module that are unnecessary for servers.

    • Project Ansible support

      The proposed repository structure (Ticket 232 was generally well-received.

      info: Brett will explore the use of runners for testing Ansible playbooks. Every member will further check the proposed structure for a more detailed discussion in 2 weeks (when eseyman is back)

    • Documentation – split postinstallation guide

      info: The Working Group will discuss the matter further in its ticket (228) and attempt to prepare a decision that can be agreed upon.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. DONE pboy will create an initial set of tickets (1 ticket per test)

    2. ONGOING MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    3. ONGOING eseyman writes an Ansible playbook that applies the official post-installation tasks.

    4. ONGOING pboy will implement the Fedocal workarount for providing meeting location address

    5. ONGOING John Himpel and Jocelyn Gould check for NFS connection issue from F44 to F45

    6. ONGOING Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    7. DONE Brett will set up a Kiwi dev environment and document the process so that others can follow suit.

    8. DONE Ro will draw up an initial draft of documentation setting out the server-specific additions to the Docs Style Guide.

    9. DONE eseyman is examining the list of changes to identify any potential issues for Server Edition.

    10. NEW pboy will contact the Cockpit team regarding the packages in the VM module that are unnecessary for servers.

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

(This summary is assisted by AI)

  • Essentials at a glance

    • F45 release testing (rawhide)

      info: Testing for the F45 release is currently lagging.

      ACTION: eseyman is examining the list of changes to identify any potential issues for Server Edition.

    • Project Ansible support

      INFO: Members should take a look at the link to the AnsibleByExample playbook structure. We’ll go through this using a specific example. The GitLab workflow would be an interesting alternative.

    • Fedora home server spin-off: Kiwi development environment

      INFO: Brett’s guide on development with Kiwi is now ready for all to try out and test. We’re calling on any interested members to give it a go and provide feedback.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. DONE pboy will create an initial set of tickets (1 ticket per test)

    2. ONGOING MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    3. ONGOING eseyman writes an Ansible playbook that applies the official post-installation tasks.

    4. ONGOING pboy will implement the Fedocal workarount for providing meeting location address

    5. ONGOING John Himpel and Jocelyn Gould check for NFS connection issue from F44 to F45

    6. ONGOING Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    7. DONE Brett will set up a Kiwi dev environment and document the process so that others can follow suit.

    8. DONE Ro will draw up an initial draft of documentation setting out the server-specific additions to the Docs Style Guide.

    9. NEW eseyman is examining the list of changes to identify any potential issues for Server Edition.

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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  • Essentials at a glance

    • Announcements

      Tickets have been opened to nominate Brett Weir (ticket 225) and Rowan Puttergill (ticket 226) as new members of the Server WG. The vote has already reached a quorum and ends on July 31.

    • F45 release testing

      AGREED: For release testing, the links in the tickets are updated and the tickets are left in their current positions. The cycle then starts again from the beginning.

      ACTION: pboy will update the links in the tickets to the new build for testing

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. NEARLY DONE pboy will create an initial set of tickets (1 ticket per test)

    2. ONGOING MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    3. ONGOING eseyman writes an Ansible playbook that applies the official post-installation tasks.

    4. ONGOING pboy will implement the Fedocal workarount for providing meeting location address

    5. ONGOING John Himpel and Jocelyn Gould check for NFS connection issue from F44 to F45

    6. ONGOING Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    7. ONGOING Brett will set up a Kiwi dev environment and document the process so that others can follow suit.

    8. ONGOING Ro will draw up an initial draft of documentation setting out the server-specific additions to the Docs Style Guide.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • F45 release testing (rawhide)

      A new approach using tickets and a project board has been created to track F45 release testing. We found this approach makes it easier to see what needs to be done.

      AGREED: The WG will start with the F45 test tickets in their current form and adapt them as necessary during the testing process.

    • Fedora home server spin-off: Organizing Kiwi development

      We already decided to have individuals set up local development environments without further details.

      ACTION: Brett will set up a dev environment and document the process so that others can follow suit.

    • How to keep track of our styling or phrasing decisions for our documentation?

      There’s a need for a server-specific style guide to document decisions that are not covered by the main Fedora Docs style guide.

      ACTION: Ro will draw up an initial draft of documentation setting out the server-specific additions to the Docs Style Guide.

    • *Keep our contributor’s guide current *

      INFO: WG will continue the discussion on how to update the contributor documentation on Matrix and will revisit the matter at the next meeting.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. DONE Jocelyn and pboy will set up a project board for testing F45

    2. NEARLY DONE pboy will create an initial set of tickets (1 ticket per test)

    3. ONGOING MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    4. ONGOING eseyman writes an Ansible playbook that applies the official post-installation tasks.

    5. ONGOING pboy will implement the Fedocal workarount for providing meeting location address

    6. ONGOING John Himpel and Jocelyn Gould check for NFS connection issue from F44 to F45

    7. ONGOING Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    8. NEW Brett will set up a Kiwi dev environment and document the process so that others can follow suit.

    9. NEW Ro will draw up an initial draft of documentation setting out the server-specific additions to the Docs Style Guide.

Wednesday, July 08, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • F45 release testing (rawhide)

      AGREED: For release testing, we create one ticket per test with the build date in the title. A test starts in ‘To Do’, and ends in either ‘Failed’ or ‘Passed’. A new build is then added to the title, and everything starts again in ‘To Do’.

      AGREED: pboy will create an initial set of tickets (1 ticket per test)

    • DNSmasq / PXE / TFTP configuration

      There are two pull requests in progress to update and expand the documentation for DNSmasq and PXE booting. One PR is a general update, and the other adds a full setup guide for PXE installs using dnsmasq, which is currently validated for UEFI clients but not legacy BIOS.

      INFO: We will have made some progress and expanded our documentation on DNSmasq and PXE for UEFI after the ongoing PRs

      AGREED: The group agreed to use editor-agnostic language (e.g., "Edit the file…​") in documentation to avoid "editor wars".

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • Starting F45 release testing (rawhide)

      1. John Himpel and Jocelyn Gould check for NFS connection issue from F44 to F45

      2. Jocelyn Gould will test the VM images

      3. Jocelyn Gould and pboy will set up a project board for testing F45

    • Fedora home server spin-off: Initial set of apps

      AGREED: We will start for alpha version of home server with the apps Samba, NFS, Mail service (imap/pop3 storage), Cockpit, Calendar and todo server, Apache revers proxy, Ansible and may expand on demand for the release

    • Fedora home server spin-off: Organizing using Kiwi for image development

      AGREED: The WG will use the home server repository to make all configuration data and installation information available. Interested WG members can use this to set up their own development environment.

      Info: The details of the home server image development process are still to be discussed and decided.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

(This summary is assisted by AI)

  • Essentials at a glance

    • RFE: Fedora Server not contains packages for PPP/xDSL connection support

      AGREED: WG will include PPP packagers into the next revision of the distribution media

    • Fedora Server user documentation: Add topics for OpenSSH

      AGREED: WG agrees to the plan to produce documentation on SSH (Ticket 181)

    • Fedora Server user documentation: NFS Installation

      ACTION: korora resolves both the tickets appropriately as discussed.

    • Fedora Server user documentation: Align console prompts to style guide

      AGREED: WG agrees to align console prompts with the style guide in all Server documentation

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. NEW: korora resolves both the tickets #175 & #176 appropriately as discussed.

    2. Brett, Jocelyn and MatH will put together a proposal for the initial small set of apps for home server spin-off from the current ideas and proposals.

    3. eseyman writes an Ansible playbook that applies the official post-installation tasks.

    4. Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    5. MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    6. pboy will implement the Fedocal workarount for providing meeting location address

    7. DONE pboy will put together the originally planned way of Ansible support for pre-installed software in home server spin-off in the server matrix room.

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • Server Ansible Support

      There was a consensus in the discussion the overall strategy for Ansible support is to provide a complete playbook structured around roles and variables. The user’s main task would be to fill in variable values, ideally through a future Cockpit configuration editor.

    • home server spin-off: preinstalled applications

      WG agreed to start with a minimal set of pre-installed applications. The initial offerings should be limited to software available in the official Fedora repositories.

      Brett, Jocelyn and MatH will put together a proposal for the initial small set of apps from the current ideas and proposals.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. Brett, Jocelyn and MatH will put together a proposal for the initial small set of apps for home server spin-off from the current ideas and proposals.

    2. eseyman writes an Ansible playbook that applies the official post-installation tasks.

    3. Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    4. MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    5. pboy will implement the Fedocal workarount for providing meeting location address

    6. pboy will put together the originally planned way of Ansible support for pre-installed software in home server spin-off in the server matrix room.

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • For Fedocal (Calendar) there is a workaround available to fix the missing meeting location address. pboy will implement the fix.

    • Repo organization, the group is supportive of experimenting with a new, more systematic set of labels in the Forgejo ticket tracker to get a better overview of projects.

    • Home server spin-off, the WG discussed possible ways of providing Ansible support for pre-installed software. pboy will put together the originally planned variant in the server matrix room.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. eseyman writes an Ansible playbook that applies the official post-installation tasks.

    2. Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    3. MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    4. pboy will implement the Fedocal workarount for providing meeting location address

    5. pboy will put together the originally planned way of Ansible support for pre-installed software in home server spin-off in the server matrix room.

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • home server spin-off

      Agreed: We keep the home server spin-off tickets integrated with our main ticket repository.

      Agreed: WG agrees about the home server goals as specified in ticket 197.

      Action: Math will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

    • topic 2

      Agreed: Emmanuel and MatH will respond to Rob in the ticket and move it forward.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. eseyman writes an Ansible playbook that applies the official post-installation tasks.

    2. Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

    3. MatH will compose the existing ideas and proposals into a TOC proposal, perhaps already for next meeting

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • Re-evaluate the list of release-blocking storage interfaces

      AGREED: WG agrees to keep as blocking: NVMe SATA, VirtIO, iSCSI and treat as non blocking: PATA SCSI, firmware RAID. We waive the blocking status or FCoE and Multipath target as long as there is no test equipment available.

      We will discuss HW raid nd SAS in the ticket.

    • Revisiting Server installation media naming convention

      AGREED: We vote on ticket about online-install / offline-install naming.

    • home server spin-off

      AGREED: We create a separate repo for home server.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. eseyman writes an Ansible playbook that applies the official post-installation tasks.

    2. DONE pboy integrate the agreed-upon objectives for Ansible support into the tracking ticket.

    3. DONE pboy puts together a detailed proposal regarding the goals and implementation basics for a home server-focused "Beginner’s Guide"

    4. Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

Wednesday, May 06, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • Post release issues

      Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image. The gap issue should be discused with the ARM SIG.

    • Status our home server proiect

      • New Contributor: Brett Weir, introduced himself and offered to contribute to the Fedora home server / homelab project

      • We considered to create a separate repo for the home server project.

      • We will start an informal meeting in Server Matrix room on Friday, May 8, about 17:00 UTC to discuss thje project in more detail.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. eseyman writes an Ansible playbook that applies the official post-installation tasks.

    2. pboy integrate the agreed-upon objectives for Ansible support into the tracking ticket.

    3. pboy puts together a detailed proposal regarding the goals and implementation basics for a home server-focused "Beginner’s Guide"

    4. Conan Kudo will fix Kiwi to set the right partition type of Linux LVM for the system partition on KVM guest and arm image.

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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  • Essentials at a glance

    • F44 release testing

      The working group is generally content with the F44 testing cycle. Two outstanding issues were discussed and to be continued next meeting:

      • a potentially confusing but intentional 16MB gap in the partition table for ARM images

      • the need to rename release files to remove outdated terms like "DVD

    • Status of our various Ansible projects

      The working group reached a consensus on the goals and objectives for providing Ansible support, as documented in the project wiki. We decided to create a proof-of-concept playbook based on the existing post-installation tasks found in the Fedora Server documentation.

      ACTION: eseyman: Write an Ansible playbook that applies the official post-installation tasks.

      ACTION: pboy: Integrate the agreed-upon objectives for Ansible support into the tracking ticket.

    • Author a "Beginners Guide to Fedora Server"

      We agreed that the initial focus for a new "Beginner’s Guide" should be on home server / homelab users. The next step is to create a formal proposal outlining the guide’s goals and a potential table of contents.

      ACTION: pboy: Put together a detailed proposal regarding the goals and implementation basics for a home server-focused "Beginner’s Guide" to be discussed at the next meeting.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. DONE: eseyman will take charge of docs update of section Installation

    2. DONE: pboy will take charge of docs update of section Virtualization.

    3. DONE: Peter will attempt to test aarch images if time permits.

    4. eseyman writes an Ansible playbook that applies the official post-installation tasks.

    5. pboy integrate the agreed-upon objectives for Ansible support into the tracking ticket.

    6. pboy puts together a detailed proposal regarding the goals and implementation basics for a home server-focused "Beginner’s Guide"

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • F44 release testing

      INFO: Currently no known outstanding issues

    • Status of our various Ansible projects

      The open discussion revealed that the goal has not yet been clearly defined for everyone. The discussion will continue at the next meeting.

  • Meeting summary

  • Bot Aurélien’s recap

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. Peter will attempt to test aarch images if time permits.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • F44 release testing

      The first release candicate (1.2) is available. We can start to update links and screenshots in the documentation.

      ACTION: eseyman will take charge of docs update of section Installation

      ACTION: pboy will take charge of section Virtualization

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. eseyman will take charge of docs update of section Installation

    2. pboy will take charge of docs update of section Virtualization

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

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  • Follow-up actions & announcements

    1. Done: abbra: To provide instructions for testing the LocalKDC COPR package with a FreeIPA setup.

    2. Done: theprogram: To create a ticket in the 'server' tracker to start work on the "Beginner’s Guide to Server".

  • Essentials at a glance

    • F44 Release Testing

      Media installation tests for the F44 Beta were completed successfully. Emmanuel Seyman confirmed that PostgreSQL and MariaDB work correctly on F44.

    • Project "Strengthening Server updates"

      The timeshift tool is being abandoned as a potential solution because it is too tightly coupled to GNOME technologies and lacks maintainers. WE are looking for a disaster-recovery solution that can snapshot /usr before an update, using LVM snapshots. The focus is on finding a suitable UI for this process.

    • Project "Home Server spin-off"

      A proposal was discussed to use Btrfs instead of LVM for this spin-off to make administration easier for home users. However, this would mean deviating from a key feature of the Fedora Server Edition. Other ideas for the spin-off include pre-installing all Cockpit plugins and packaging a user-friendly backup solution like urbackup.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. jwhimpel: To test Raspberry Pi 5 support for F44 if it becomes available.

    2. pboy & eseyman: To test the LocalKDC COPR package.

    3. eseyman: To review the list of long-term open issues and PRs for discussion at the next meeting.

    4. pboy: To contribute ideas and initial thoughts to the new "Beginner’s Guide to Server" ticket.

    5. eseyman: Add a comment to the F44 tracking ticket (#186) with the results of his database testing.

    6. pboy: Test the removal of Java 21 from the installation media and write the corresponding release note.

    7. pboy & eseyman: Coordinate on project presentations for the Flock conference.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

(This summary is assisted by AI)

  • Essentials at a glance

    • Fedora 44 Release Testing

      All planned release testing for Fedora Server 44 is complete with no major issues found.

      AGREED: The working group agreed that the Server F44 installation media are ready for release.

    • Project "Integrating LocalKDC"

      The work on LocalKDC is ongoing upstream, with the goal of having basic support in Fedora 45. This feature will enable use cases like accessing NFS shares upon SSH login using Kerberos tickets.

      Testing can begin now using a COPR repository against FreeIPA and Active Directory environments.

    • Open Floor

      A new project to create a "Beginner’s Guide to Server" was proposed. It aims to help new users understand what to do after a fresh installation lands them at a command prompt.

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    1. jwhimpel: To test Raspberry Pi 5 support for F44 if it becomes available.

    2. abbra: To provide instructions for testing the LocalKDC COPR package with a FreeIPA setup.

    3. pboy & eseyman: To test the LocalKDC COPR package.

    4. eseyman: To review the list of long-term open issues and PRs for discussion at the next meeting.

    5. theprogram: To create a ticket in the 'server' tracker to start work on the "Beginner’s Guide to Server".

    6. pboy: To contribute ideas and initial thoughts to the new "Beginner’s Guide to Server" ticket.

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

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  • Essentials at a glance

    • Flock 2026: The Server talk and workshop proposals have been accepted for Flock 2026.

    • F44 Release Testing

      Successful tests were reported for single-disk BIOS and UEFI installations, BIOS RAID installation, KVM virtualization, and functionality of PostgreSQL and MariaDB.

      UEFI RAID and aarch64 SBC installation tests are still pending.

    • Project "Streamlined backup & restore"

      Agreed: The 3 proposals of ticket #184 are accepted.

      Project leads were assigned for the projects agreed upon so far:

      • Strengthening Server updates: eseyman & pboy

      • Streamlining regular Server backups: eseyman & korora

      • Providing Backup Service for local network clients Not yet decided

      • Homeserver spin-off: pboy & mowest

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  • Actions summary

    1. pboy: Test the F44 Beta UEFI RAID installation and on an aarch64 SBC.

    2. eseyman: Contact the Fedora maintainers of timeshift.

    3. All: Look at the new LocalKDC related package and demos provided by abbra before the next meeting.

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

  • Essentials at a glance

    • F44 release testing

      Jocelyn has been going through our docs and making sure that they still apply to F44 and has been updating them as they go. Starting early we should achieve a better covering this release.

    • Project "Streamlined backup & restore"

      Further disussion of this project required.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

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  • Essentials at a glance

    • Testing release F44 branched

      We organized testing tasks for the F44 Beta release. With regard to the KVM image, particular attention should be paid to that the root filesystem is LVM and there are no partition gaps. Results should be recorded in both ticket #186 and the test matrix.

      AGREED: We will develop issue templates for various purposes as well as a template chooser.

    • Project Streamlined backup and restore

      AGREED: The discussion about the project goals was postponed to allow time to study the proposal in the wiki and discuss it asynchronously on Matrix.

    • Project home server spin-off

      The use of BTRFS for the spin-off was discussed (pros: easier for home users, and cons: potential database performance issues, deviation from the main server edition).

      AGREED: The project’s wiki page will be used as a shared space to gather further ideas and define goals.

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    1. mowest: Test the F44 Beta installation on his Dell desktop (either BIOS or UEFI) with two hard drives if possible.

    2. pboy: Test the F44 Beta RAID installation (BIOS and/or UEFI dependend on mowest’s hardware capabilities) and also test on an aarch64 SBC.

    3. korora: Test the F44 Beta single-disk installation on both UEFI and BIOS, and perform KVM virtualization tests.

    4. eseyman: Test PostgreSQL and MariaDB on a fresh installation of F44 Server.

    5. korora: Start working on creating an issue template for the Server WG’s Forgejo instance.

    6. All: While testing, make note of any documentation that needs to be updated.

    7. All: Review the "Streamlined Backup and Restore" proposal and discuss it on Matrix before the next meeting. . All: Add ideas and planning notes for the "Home Server Spin-off" to its wiki page.

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

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  • Essentials at a glance

    • Reviewing our governance rules

      Tracking ticket #183

      The wording suggested by pboy was generally agreed upon. Two points still need to be discussed:

      • Should we send reminders to inactive members

      • How can we better express our expectation that someone should give us some confidence that their contributions are long term.

    • Meeting Routine Changes

      We agreed to adopt a more structured meeting routine, including

      • assigning a moderator for each topic

      • concluding topics with a clear wrap-up, agreement, or action item.

      • Matrix does not have a concept of 'chair' anymore. Any member in the meeting can and should use meetbot commands like !action and !agreed.

    • Testing release F44 branched

      • Jocelyn (korora) reported that the F44 qcow (KVM) image is now working correctly after initial setup.

      • Beta Freeze deadline has passed and testing of beta candidates is now a priority.

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  • Actions summary

    1. pboy: Create a ticket with a draft meeting guide

    2. Jocelyn (korora) and Peter (pboy): Prepare a ticket outlining the procedure for testing the F44 release.

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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  • Essentials at a glance

    • Our program and working plan for the upcomming year

      The working group decided on four main projects for the upcoming year:

      • Home server spin

      • Backup documentation/tooling

      • Net-boot (PXE) documentation and Ansible support

      • Ansible/NFS projects

    • Contribution to Flock 2026

      pboy, eseyman, and possibly conan_kudo plan to attend. They are considering a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session and will work on a proposal.

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