Meeting Minutes 2023

Stephen Daley, Peter Boy
Wednesday, Dec 06, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Next meeting on January 19, 2024!

    • Fedora Server release and quality criteria

      We want to further discuss this on mailing list and in the ticket.

    • Work program and goals for F40

      Various ideas discussed, further discussion on the mailing list and in the ticket .

    • Test planning for F40

      Extensive discussion without a conclusive result yet. Discussion to be continued at the next meeting.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ACTION: Mowest will take care ot disussed modifications of the Server download page.

Wednesday, Nov 15, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Fedora release 39 - State of Server media and Download Web page

      The Situation regarding aarch64 on SBC is a bit better then 2 weeks ago, but still but still not satisfactory. A SBC is now installable if you don’t use an installation host with actrive LVM drives, but use e.g. Fedora Workstation. In this respect, it would be disproportionate to continue to regard this as a release blocker. The problem must now be solved for Release 40.

      It’s really unfortunate, that we discovered the bug so late in the Beta process. We need to review our testing procedures. We have relied too much on the automated tests.

      For the next release we should improve the download page. We need to find a better name as the outdated term "DVD" and should clearly distinguish the SBC variant from the other installations, it is best to introduce a separate section.

      ACTION: Mowest will take care ot disussed modifications of the Server download page.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ACTION: Mowest will take care ot disussed modifications of the Server download page.

Wednesday, Nov 01, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Fedora release 39 rc current state and how to continue

      The x86_64 versions work great. There is still a severe bug with installing the aarch64 SBC version on Fedora Server.

      AGREED: If the LVM issue can not be resolved for f39 release, Server WG would like to opt out providing a f39 installation medium for aarch SBC, continue to distribute f38 and encourage to update using dnf.

    • Package fail2ban orphaned

      In the meantime the orphaned package was picked by a new maintainer.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    none

Wednesday, Oct 18, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Maximum size of aarch64 Server network install image

      AGREED: Enlarge aarch64 net install media to 1 GB. Letting everything else as is.

    • Fedora release 39 beta first experience and how to continue

      Mowest has tested the x86_64 installation image and pb the VM image. No issues found.

      There is still an issue with the aarch64 on SBC version. pboy will check.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    none

Wednesday, Sep 20, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. Ongoing: pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review. git+ Nothing to announce today.

    • F40 Change proposal dropping sshd.socket file

      ACTION: jwhimpel will keep an eye on behalf of Server WG on the "Change proposal dropping sshd.socket file" discussion.

    • Fedora release 39 beta first experience and how to continue

      ACTION: jdubby will deploy some of the wildfly quickstarts via localhost and report at our next meeting.

    • *F39/40 Work Project: Fedora Server in a virtualized runtime environment *

      ACTION: mowest and pboy will prepare a community action about Fedora Server in a virtualized runtime environment

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ACTION: Ongoing pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review

    2. ACTION: jwhimpel will keep an eye on behalf of Server WG on the "Change proposal dropping sshd.socket file" discussion.

    3. ACTION: mowest and pboy will prepare a community action about Fedora Server in a virtualized runtime environment

Wednesday, Sep 06, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. Ongoing: pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review. git+ Nothing to announce today.

    • F39 Work Project: Fedora Server on (ARM) SBC

      ACTION: pboy will complete the intro text about Fedora Server and ARM SBC

    • Work Project: Using Ansible to install and configure Wildfly

      ACTION: jdubby will deploy some of the wildfly quickstarts via localhost and report at our next meeting.

    • Fedora release 39 test planning

      ACTION: pboy will open a mailing list thread about F39 change set to review changes and come up with a list of those that affect server edition

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ACTION: Ongoing pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review

    2. ACTION: pboy will complete the intro text about Fedora Server and ARM SBC

    3. ACTION: jdubby will deploy some of the wildfly quickstarts via localhost and report at our next meeting.

    4. ACTION: pboy will open a mailing list thread about F39 change set to review changes and come up with a list of those that affect server edition

Wednesday, Aug 16, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. Ongoing: pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review. git+ Nothing to announce today.

    • F39 Work Project: Fedora Server on (ARM) SBC (

      pboy will write a first draft of the first part of the text about Server on SBC (Purpose and summary of the literature). Further discussion on mailing list,

    • Work Project: Using Ansible to install and configure Wildfly

      The certificate issue got resolved. Next step is installation and configuration of the proxy (nginx). Detailed discussion on mailing list.

    • Fedora release 39 test planning

      After the first impression, there is no potentially critical change that requires our special attention and testing.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ACTION: Ongoing pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review

Wednesday, Jul 19, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. Ongoing: pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review.

      2. Done: eseyman will review the NFS documentation

    • Announcement

      Nothing to announce today.

    • Fedora 39 change Proposal: Enable Firmware Update Notification

      In a short discussion we had voted 7:0:0 in favour of the change. To add an email notification is currently useless, because we don’t install any email capability by default.

    • LLMNR should be disabled in resolved in f39

      Nirik and pboy are to formulate a solution on behalf of the WG.

    • Work Project: Using Ansible to install and configure Wildfly

      We made various decisions

      • We’ll use nginx as proxy solution, because it is able to handle the proxy protocol.

      • pboy asks Java SIG about best practise for a installation location.

      • We will create a separate log. Volume for /opt/wildfly according the Fedora Server Edition storage concept

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

Wednesday, Jul 05, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. Ongoing: pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review.

      2. Ongoing: eseyman will review the NFS documentation - still WIP

    • Announcement

      AS it looks at the moment the committee has accepted and is planning with a presentation: Fedora Server Edition – Quo Vadis? Unfortunately a workshop about Server in virtual environment, that I proposed, too, didn’t make it.

    • Could we drop Active Directory requirements from Fedora release criteria?

      Agreed WG agrees about to use automated testing using Samba AD as the server end (instead of a native Windows server) and to keep the status of release criteria.

      Full compatibility with Windows Server remains the goal regardless of the testing procedure. And an inability to connect to a real Microsoft AD server remains a release blocking criterion, since that is (and remains) the most prominent domain controller in the world.

    • F39 Work Project: Fedora Server on (ARM) SBC

      We’ll complete the current device documentation draft with the devices nominated until now.

    • Open Floor

      We want to replace the "DVD" in the naming of the installation media by "STD".

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ACTION: Ongoing pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review

Wednesday, Jun 21, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. Ongoing: pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review.

      2. Ongoing: eseyman will review the NFS documentation - still WIP

    • Announcement

      pboy has submitted a talk and a workshop idea to Flock

    • F39 Work Project: Fedora Server on (ARM) SBC

      W’ll compose a devices list.

      ACTION eseyman to post his ARM SBC list to the list by next week.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ACTION: Ongoing pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review

Wednesday, Jun 07, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. Ongoing: pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review.

    • Announcement

      This year’s Flock will be in-person Aug. 2-4 in Cork, Ireland. We’ll discuss our contribution on mailing list and next meeting.

    • F39 Work Project: Fedora Server on (ARM) SBC

      AGREED: The WG agrees on part 1 of the plan in issue 108 and will create a reference list.

      W’ll start a list of desirable or available devices in a comment to on tracking issue #108.

      W’ll consider the Phoronix list of tests for comparison.

    • Using Ansible to install and configure Wildfly

      We postpone working on it until July, when jwhimpel has time again.

    • F39/40 Work Project: Fedora Server in a virtualized runtime environment

      AGREED: WG will perform the community survey as proposed in #110 .

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ACTION: Ongoing pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review

Wednesday, May 03, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. Ongoing: pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review.

    • Fedora Server goal(s) for F39

      AGREED: WG will pursue 'Fedora Server Edition on SBC' as first priority for F39, and 'Fedora Server Edition in virtualized environments' as 2nd priority.

    • "Each Edition has a story for each release"

      AGREED: WG will pursue 'Fedora Server Edition on SBC' as the 'story' for F39 with first priority, 'Fedora Server Edition in Virtuialized environments' with 2nd priority.

      ACTION: pboy will post a first draft regarding 'Fedora Server Edition on SBCs' on hackmd.io for further discussion.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ACTION: Ongoing pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review

    2. ACTION: pboy will post a first draft regarding 'Fedora Server Edition on SBCs' on hackmd.io for further discussion.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. Ongoing: pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review.

    • "Each Edition has a story for each release"

      On mailing list we have a first info and a draft collection of ideas. The challenge is not so much the "story" part, but the "every release" part.

      ACTION: eseyman will try and think up something for next meeting

    • Fedora Server goal(s) for F39

      AGREED: We evaluate 2 options for F39: ServerVM support for various hosting services and Usage of SBC as a Server device

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. ACTION: Ongoing pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review

    2. ACTION: eseyman will try and think up something for next meeting

Wednesday, April 05, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. Ongoing: pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review.

    • F38 Beta testing

      We are fine with F38 and should not experience any surprises.

    • Shorter Shutdown Timer

      Nirik created a PR as decided. It is pushed to stable and will be included in the installation media.

    • Fedora Website revamp – Fedora Server Edition pages

      AGREED: Server WG would like to get a "Documentation" button/link between Download and Community in the hero graphic

      AGREED: Server WG is content with the feature list and descriptions.

    • Using Ansible to install and configure Wildfly

      We will start thinking about how we’re going to get these ansible roles/playbooks into our users' hands.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. Ongoing: pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review

Wednesday, March 15, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. No open actions

    • Shorter Shutdown Timer

      AGREED: to take the same route as CoreOS and keep the old default value. (+3, 0, -2 )

      ACTION: pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review

    • Fedora Website revamp – Fedora Server Edition pages

      We are still missing a documentation button and link. The feature list needs some improvement.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. pboy will write a info about how to configure the timeout value and nirik will review

Wednesday, March 01, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. Ongoing: nirik to look up the services in our technical specification and check for time out value

      2. Ongoing: pboy to create a ticket to collect our central messages for the new web site.

    • Shorter Shutdown Timer

      We are still evaluating the possible impact and current configuration of the core services.

      We want to add to our documentation how to make changes to the .service file if someone has an issue.

      action pboy will create a summary of our discussion about service specific timeouts.

      action pboy will open a mailing list discussion about interdependencies between services and the consequences.

    • Using Ansible to install and configure Wildfly

      We have still 2 unresolved issues:

      a. TLS between apache and Wildfly web app
      b. Ansiblify Wildfly

      action jdubby will update his Ansible/Wildfly repo

      action eseyman will look at the updated repo

      action pboy will provide a public server where we can work in a cooperative work on all the details

    • Fedora Website revamp – Fedora Server Edition pages

      We are generally very content with the current state of the completed draft. Mowest informed that the design group considers it "near final". Anyway we can request changes after the F38 rollout.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. pboy to create a ticket to collect our central messages for the new web site

    2. nirik to look up the services in our technical specification and check for time out value

    3. pboy pboy will create a summary of our discussion about service specific timeouts.

    4. pboy will open a mailing list discussion about interdependencies between services and the consequences.

    5. jdubby will update his Ansible/Wildfly repo

    6. eseyman will look at the updated repo

    7. pboy will provide a public server where we can work in a cooperative work on all the details

Wednesday, February 15, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Follow up actions

      1. nirik to look up the services in our technical specification and check for time out value

      2. pboy to create a ticket to collect our central messages for the new web site.

    • Fedora Website revamp – Fedora Server Edition pages

      Mowest informs about the availability of a first complete draft, although still with some placeholders. The discussion about further development is still ongoing. The current topic is the design of the header. We agree that it should express as well as possible the universality and wide scope of Fedora Server Edition (from SBC to SME to Data Center).

      Next step is the finetuning of the mission statements.

    • Shorter Shutdown Timer

      We are still evaluating the possible impact and current configuration of the core services.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. pboy to create a ticket to collect our central messages for the new web site

    2. nirik to look up the services in our technical specification and check for time out value

    3. pboy to create a list of our core services in the issue for further discussion

Wednesday, February 01, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Fedora Website revamp – Fedora Server Edition pages

      Mowest made contact with the revamp team. We are now in the flow to work on it. See the current mockup! The texts are a first draft. The graphical assets are mostly placeholders.

      You can also follow the ongoing conversation about the current status of the website design. To give feedback, please use our pagure issue #66!

      Next actions:

      1. Review text right now and give suggestions for changes.

      2. Mowest will inform us Emma (the designer) has some of the graphic assets ready for review.

      3. Suggestions or ideas for graphic assets that could be used next to each of our "feature points" as suggestions to the graphics team.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
  • Essentials at a glance

    • Shorter Shutdown Timer

      We will first review the Core Services of our current "Technical Specification" to see what configuration is implemented for a shutdown. Furthermore, we will consider conducting a test tag on this point, although implementation is likely to be difficult. Depending on the findings, we will decide on the further handling of the magnitude of the default timeout.

      We found contradictions resp. ambiguities about the exact configuration of the current timeout configuration in Server. Nirik will clarify this.

      Actions

      1. nirik will look up the services in our technical specification and check for time out value

    • Fedora Server web site revamp

      Mowest made contact with the revamp team and introduced himself as Server contact. We are now in the flow to work on it.

      The next step is to collect content for our pages. Mowest asks to contribute key ideas, messages, mission statements for the content of the page. We prefer professional, meaningful texts, not rather content-less marketing phrases, which can be found partly on some newly designed pages.

      Actions

      1. pboy to create a ticket to collect our central messages for the new web site.

  • Meeting summary

  • Full log

  • Actions summary

    1. nirik will look up the services in our technical specification and check for time out value

    2. pboy to create a ticket to collect our central messages for the new web site.

Keep in mind: We had moved the time of our meeting in UTC so that the same local time of day is maintained after the DST changeover, that means currently 18:00 UTC.