2026-02-23 @ 17:00 UTC - Fedora 44 Blocker Review Meeting

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Hi folks! It’s time for a Fedora 44 blocker (and FE) review meeting! We have 5 proposed freeze exceptions for Beta.

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. Making sure you're not a bot! 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 F44 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: F44-blocker-review

Meeting started by @adamwill:fedora.im at 17:00:32 UTC

Meeting summary

  1. TOPIC:Roll Call (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:00:36)
    1. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:03:44)
    2. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Final_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:03:44)
    3. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Beta_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:03:44)
    4. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Basic_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:03:44)
    5. INFO: The criteria for release blocking bugs can be found at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:03:44)
    6. LINK: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:03:44)
  2. TOPIC:Introduction (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:03:44)
    1. 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, 17:03:44)
    2. INFO: We'll be following the process outlined at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:03:44)
    3. INFO: The bugs up for review today are available at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:03:44)
    4. INFO: for Beta, we have: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:04:19)
    5. INFO: 4 Proposed Freeze Exceptions (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:04:29)
    6. INFO: 2 Proposed Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:04:29)
    7. INFO: 8 Accepted Freeze Exceptions (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:04:29)
    8. INFO: 2 Accepted Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:04:29)
    9. INFO: nothing to review for Final ATM (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:05:09)
    10. INFO: adamw will secretarialize (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:06:49)
  3. TOPIC:Proposed Beta blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:07:13)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439813 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:07:22)
  4. TOPIC:(2439813) KDE network installs hang during scriptlets (%triggerin on ibus) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:07:22)
    1. INFO: Proposed Blocker, anaconda, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:07:22)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2048 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:07:22)
    3. AGREED: 2439813 - punt (delay decision) - there's substantial sentiment that this ought to be blocking, but the current criteria don't clearly allow for that. whether the criteria should be adjusted to make this a blocker is a somewhat complex question we don't want to try and resolve live during a meeting, so we'll punt this to allow for more calm consideration of that (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:30:45)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: BetaBlocker (+2,0,-0) (+nielsenb, +psklenar) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:31:00)
    5. INFO: Proposed Blocker, kernel, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:31:00)
    6. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2047 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:31:00)
    7. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2441941 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:31:00)
  5. TOPIC:(2441941) Graphics break when trying to type LUKS password (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:31:00)
    1. AGREED: 2441941 - punt (delay decision) - so far this is only reported to affect one system. On a closer inspection, the similar-but-not-identical 2438442 which we previously accepted as a blocker has also only been reported to affect one model, so far. Blocking on bugs that affect only one laptop model is a bit of a high bar especially for Beta. we plan to issue a call for testing asking folks with Intel laptops to see if they hit either bug and then re-evaluate both bugs based on the responses (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:46:03)
  6. TOPIC:Proposed Beta Freeze Exceptions (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:52:41)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2434041 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:52:52)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2044 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:52:52)
    3. INFO: Proposed Freeze Exceptions, fish, ON_QA (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:52:52)
  7. TOPIC:(2434041) fish: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f44 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:52:52)
    1. INFO: Ticket vote: BetaFreezeException (+0,0,-1) (-nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:52:52)
    2. AGREED: 2434041 - RejectedFreezeException (Beta) - this is rejected on the basis that the package is still installable, and there's no real benefit from a freeze exception solely to fix the package build unless it's necessary to make the package installable or fix a significant bug (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:04:10)
    3. INFO: Ticket vote: BetaFreezeException (+1,0,-0) (+nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:04:19)
    4. INFO: Proposed Freeze Exceptions, gtk4, ON_QA (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:04:19)
    5. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2041 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:04:19)
    6. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2440500 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:04:19)
  8. TOPIC:(2440500) SVG texture heights are incorrect (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:04:19)
    1. AGREED: 2440500 - AcceptedFreezeException (Beta) - this is accepted as it's a very obvious fix that addresses at least one highly visible bug (the GNOME Tour window being oversized) and there may well be other cases we didn't spot yet that are worse (for a tall-but-narrow image we could wind up cutting off a lot of it) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:14:27)
    2. INFO: Ticket vote: BetaFreezeException (+0,0,-1) (-nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:14:34)
    3. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2045 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:14:34)
    4. INFO: Proposed Freeze Exceptions, krita, ON_QA (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:14:34)
    5. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2441074 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:14:34)
  9. TOPIC:(2441074) Update krita to 6.0.0 beta2 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:14:34)
    1. AGREED: 2441074 - AcceptedFreezeException (Beta) - this is accepted as it's a significant functionality problem in a default app on a non-blocking spin (Design Suite) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:26:50)
  10. TOPIC:(2435519) OCR functionality in Spectacle does not work unless tesseract-devel is installed (due to bad library discovery code in Spectacle) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:27:00)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2435519 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:27:00)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2043 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:27:00)
    3. INFO: Proposed Freeze Exceptions, spectacle, ON_QA (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:27:00)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: BetaFreezeException (+1,0,-0) (+nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:27:00)
    5. AGREED: 2435519 - AcceptedFreezeException (Beta) - this is accepted as the fix for a major new feature of a default KDE application (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:43:54)
  11. TOPIC:Accepted Beta Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:44:17)
    1. INFO: as a reminder, we're checking status, not re-voting (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:44:25)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2028 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:44:31)
    3. INFO: Accepted Blocker, kernel, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:44:31)
    4. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2438442 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:44:31)
  12. TOPIC:(2438442) Graphics broken unless Panel Self Refresh is disabled (with i915.enable_psr=0) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:44:31)
    1. INFO: we decided earlier in the meeting to do a call for testing on this one along with the new one (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:44:43)
    2. INFO: jforbes says a bisect would be very valuable if anyone with an affected system can do it (even just identifying the last good / first broken kernel builds in koji would help) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:45:30)
    3. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2036 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:45:35)
    4. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2438907 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:45:35)
  13. TOPIC:(2438907) [abrt] gnome-shell: meta_wayland_popup_grab_finish(): gnome-shell killed by SIGSEGV (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:45:35)
    1. INFO: Accepted Blocker, mutter, ON_QA (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:45:35)
    2. INFO: fix for this is in testing, please test and karma it so we can push it stable (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:45:53)
  14. TOPIC:Open floor (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:50:11)


Meeting ended at 18:56:07 UTC

Action items

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People present (lines said)

  1. @adamwill:fedora.im (152)
  2. @kparal:matrix.org (49)
  3. @conan_kudo:matrix.org (35)
  4. @ngompa:fedora.im (15)
  5. @psklenar:fedora.im (9)
  6. @zodbot:fedora.im (6)
  7. @m4rtink:fedora.im (5)
  8. @lruzicka:fedora.im (5)
  9. @korora:fedora.im (4)
  10. @kashyapc:fedora.im (3)
  11. @meetbot:fedora.im (2)
  12. @jgroman:fedora.im (2)
  13. @jforbes:fedora.im (2)
  14. @boniboyblue:fedora.im (1)


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