2025-03-24 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora 42 Blocker Review Meeting

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Hi folks! It’s time for a Fedora 42 blocker review meeting! We have 3 proposed blockers and 1 proposed freeze exception for Final.

Here is a handy link which should show you the meeting time in your local time.

The meeting will be on Matrix. Click the link above to join in a web client - you can authenticate with your FAS account - or use a dedicated client of your choosing.

If you have time this weekend, you can take a look at the proposed or accepted blockers before the meeting - the full lists can be found here.

Remember, you can also now vote on bugs outside of review meetings! If you look at the bug list in the blockerbugs app, you’ll see links labeled “Vote!” next to all proposed blockers and freeze exceptions. Those links take you to tickets where you can vote. Overview - fedora-qa/blocker-review - Pagure.io has instructions on how exactly you do it. We usually go through the tickets shortly before the meeting and apply any clear votes, so the meeting will just cover bugs where there wasn’t a clear outcome in the ticket voting yet. THIS MEANS IF YOU VOTE NOW, THE MEETING WILL BE SHORTER!

We’ll be evaluating these bugs to see if they violate any of the Release Criteria and warrant the blocking of a release if they’re not fixed. Information on the release criteria for F42 can be found on the wiki.

For more information about the Blocker and Freeze exception process, check out these links:

And for those of you who are curious how a Blocker Review Meeting works - or how it’s supposed to go and you want to run one - check out the SOP on the wiki.

Have a good weekend and see you on Monday!

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#blocker-review:fedoraproject.org: F42-blocker-review

Meeting started by @adamwill:fedora.im at 16:02:10 UTC

Meeting summary

  1. TOPIC:Roll Call (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:02:17)
    1. INFO: The criteria for release blocking bugs can be found at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:16)
    2. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Basic_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:16)
    3. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Beta_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:16)
    4. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Final_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:16)
    5. INFO: Our purpose in this meeting is to review proposed blocker and nice-to-have bugs and decide whether to accept them, and to monitor the progress of fixing existing accepted blocker and nice-to-have bugs. (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:16)
    6. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:16)
    7. INFO: The bugs up for review today are available at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:16)
    8. INFO: We'll be following the process outlined at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:16)
  2. TOPIC:Introduction (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:16)
    1. LINK: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:16)
    2. INFO: for Final, we have: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:29)
    3. INFO: 3 Proposed Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:30)
    4. INFO: 7 Accepted Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:30)
    5. INFO: 2 Accepted Freeze Exceptions (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:35)
    6. INFO: 1 Proposed Freeze Exceptions (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:35)
    7. INFO: adamw will secretarialize (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:11:07)
  3. TOPIC:Proposed Final blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:11:30)
    1. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+0,0,-1) (-lruzicka) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:11:38)
  4. TOPIC:(2353002) biosboot required even on MBR disks, not just GPT, but can't be created (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:11:38)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2353002 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:11:38)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/1804 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:11:38)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, anaconda-webui, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:11:38)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+0,1,-2) (geraldosimiao, -nielsenb, -derekenz) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:11:38)
    5. INFO: in a late substitution, lbrabec will secretarialize (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:19:49)
    6. AGREED: 2353002 - AcceptedBlocker (Final) - this is accepted as a violation of "The installer must be able to create and install to any workable partition layout using any file system and/or container format combination offered in a default installer configuration". We note that resolving this does not require implementation of MBR support; this could be sufficiently addressed by not allowing the user to attempt unsupported operations on an MBR-labelled disk. (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:37:37)
    7. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/1806 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:37:52)
    8. INFO: Proposed Blocker, cockpit, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:37:52)
  5. TOPIC:(2354497) re-format an encrypt partition make it pretty hard to continue the installation (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:37:52)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2354497 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:37:52)
    2. AGREED: 2354497 - AcceptedBlocker (Final) - this is accepted as a violation of "The installer must be able to create and install to any workable partition layout using any file system and/or container format combination offered in a default installer configuration" (can also be argued to violate the Beta custom partitioning criteria) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:44:36)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, kernel, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:45:43)
    4. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2353148 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:45:43)
  6. TOPIC:(2353148) Fedora 42 crashes while booting on IPU6 laptops with an ivsc chip (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:45:43)
    1. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+1,0,-0) (+adamwill) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:45:43)
    2. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+3,0,-4) (+geraldosimiao, +nielsenb, +eischmann, -kparal, -derekenz, -lruzicka, -boniboyblue) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:45:43)
    3. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/1801 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:45:43)
    4. AGREED: 2353148 - punt (delay decision) on blocker status, AcceptedFreezeException (Final) - the vote on blocker status for this is split, but there is clear consensus for a freeze exception. As the fix for this is already lined up, we expect it will land before deciding the blocker status becomes crucial (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:08:47)
    5. INFO: the sole proposed FE was already accepted as a blocker (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:10:31)
  7. TOPIC:Accepted Final blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:10:44)
    1. INFO: all accepted blockers are in some kind of 'fix on the way' state except: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:11:12)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/1794 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:11:19)
  8. TOPIC:(2352679) Fedora 42: Server boot aarch64 image exceeds maximum size (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:11:19)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352679 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:11:19)
    2. INFO: Accepted Blocker, distribution, ASSIGNED (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:11:19)
    3. INFO: server WG is aware of this and has had an initial discussion, adamw has posted a mailing list thread about it now too. we'll make sure either the image is shrunk or the limit gets bumped (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:19:48)
  9. TOPIC:Open floor (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:20:41)
  10. TOPIC:(2354592) GNOME crashes on startup if keyboard accessibility features are enabled (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:04)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2354592 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:15)
    2. INFO: Proposed Blocker, mutter, POST (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:27)
    3. INFO: this is a late proposed blocker (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:34)
    4. AGREED: 2354592 - AcceptedBlocker (Final) - this is accepted as a conditional violation of "A system installed with a release-blocking desktop must boot to a log in screen where it is possible to log in to a working desktop using a user account created during installation or a 'first boot' utility" in the case that an affected a11y setting is enabled (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:02:54)
  11. TOPIC:Open floor, take 2 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:03:04)


Meeting ended at 18:04:42 UTC

Action items

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People present (lines said)

  1. @adamwill:fedora.im (213)
  2. @conan_kudo:matrix.org (85)
  3. @kparal:matrix.org (67)
  4. @nielsenb:fedora.im (42)
  5. @lruzicka:matrix.org (24)
  6. @derekenz:fedora.im (18)
  7. @boniboyblue:fedora.im (11)
  8. @matthiasc:gnome.org (7)
  9. @zodbot:fedora.im (6)
  10. @geraldosimiao:matrix.org (3)
  11. @nhanlon:beeper.com (3)
  12. @meetbot:fedora.im (2)
  13. @farchord:fedora.im (2)
  14. @jkonecny:fedora.im (1)
  15. @lbrabec:matrix.org (1)


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