Meeting Minutes 2025

ACTION: jwhimpel will create a Beta RPM that will establish the "base" filesystem and related documentation for our ansible setup (on admin’s workstation)

The final release actually no longer contains the possibility of a remote interactive installation initialized without terminal by kickstart file. This is the result of a system-wide switch from VNC to RDP initiated by the Workstation WG. The discontinuation is a side effect of the changes in Anaconda and was unannounced. We did not expect this omission and unfortunately discovered it too late.

AGREED: We will create a list of minimal manual tests and try to establish a test week for F43.

A particularly intensive checking require all changes that are in any way related to the Workstation WG.

There is a pending PR.

ACTION: Paul Maconi (Aggraxis) will take care or the PR regarding the size change for aarch64 architecture.

Testing so far revealed some minor issues. Really bad, the remote interactive installation doesn’t work anymore with the kickstart file.

The reasons are obviously specific to the characteristics of aarch64 architecture. The x86_&4 version is not affected.

AGREED: If the ongoing attempts to reduce the size are not successful, Server WG is in favor of an increase to 1.2 GB as an exception for now.

Pboy will perform the hardware relataed testing, eseyman takes care of SBCs and jwhimpel of VM installation. We will track the results in an issue.

During US daylight saving time, we adjust the beginning of our meeting to 17:00 UTC, so that local daily routines remain unchanged.

The podcast scheduled for yesterday was delayed, due to staff shortage. Mowest will try to join the new meeting together with pboy.

AGREED: Server WG emphasizes that we need access without official certificates for private networks

Eseyman will track this.

A review of the current state of the 'countme' statistics is to become a regularly recurring agenda item, approximately monthly or quarterly.

AGREED: We will let the survey closed as decided before.

AGREED: Server WG will limit NFS support to NFS 4

AGREED: We create a supported web service following the current description of a basic setup in the server docs. This is also the basis for developing an Ansible playbook.

We have a "brainstorming collection document" at https://hackmd.io/@pboy/SJzz7VcFJl. We agreed that everybody will enter their idea about data analysis and questions we try to answer by data analysis.

Once the survey is complete, pboy will export the data in a secure form and make it available to interested WG members.

AGREED Server WG decides to start work on a honelab / homeserver spin-off.

AGREED Eseyman, Mowest and Pboy will finalize suitable contributions to Flock 2025 on the basis of the current collection of ideas and submit the application(s).

We currently have 4077 participants, of whom 548 have fully answered the survey. The others have left out several questions. We will continue to promote the poll. The currently scheduled end date is February 18.

ACTION Emmanuel Seyman will post on redit forum, Fedora general user on Discussion, Fedora Devel on Discussion and the corresponding mailing lists about the next 2 weeks to participate

AGREED mowest takes over the conduct and organization of the data analysis. Support from Gwmngilfen, Emmanuel, pboy and anyone who is interested

At Fosdem there was a discussion with abbra about freeIPA and localKDC (local Key Distribution Center) that is planned for F43. It may help us to resolve the UID issue with NFS.

ACTION pboy will ping Abbra and the freeIPA / localKDC people to advice and help us to integrate the right thing into Fedora Server.

Regarding Flock we discussed several ideas for contribution. We will continue the discussion on the mailing list.

Nothing new so far. But we have a new issue to deal with, managing firewall portmapper port (111).

Nothing new so far.

Just for information see Current Actions summary below.

Fosdem runs from February 1-2. Fedora will be represented by a booth, eseyman and pboy will be there.

The poll is open and running. We don’t have any data on an interim result yet.

Because of the current issues with NFS which may take some tie to get resolved we open another path with web services.

We postpone this until we have evidence of our server poll.