2026-04-20 @ 16:00 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 4 proposed blockers and 3 proposed freeze exception for Final.

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 today, 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 tomorrow!

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#blocker-review:fedoraproject.org: F44-blocker-review

Meeting started by @adamwill:fedora.im at 16:00:22 UTC

Meeting summary

  1. TOPIC:Roll Call (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:00:25)
    1. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Basic_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:03:48)
  2. TOPIC:Introduction (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:03:48)
    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, 16:03:48)
    2. INFO: We'll be following the process outlined at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:03:48)
    3. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:03:48)
    4. INFO: The bugs up for review today are available at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:03:48)
    5. LINK: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:03:48)
    6. INFO: The criteria for release blocking bugs can be found at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:03:48)
    7. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Beta_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:03:48)
    8. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Final_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:03:48)
    9. INFO: for Final, we have: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:09)
    10. INFO: 3 Proposed Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:14)
    11. INFO: 4 Accepted Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:14)
    12. INFO: 1 Proposed Freeze Exceptions (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:18)
    13. INFO: 9 Accepted Freeze Exceptions (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:18)
    14. INFO: Lukáš Růžička will secretarialize (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:13)
  3. TOPIC:Proposed Final blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:30)
    1. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+4,0,-0) (+asciiwolf, +loquser, +nielsenb, +derekenz) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:38)
  4. TOPIC:(2442617) tss user is missing before initrd-switch-root.target (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:38)
    1. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+0,0,-2) (-nielsenb, -derekenz) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:38)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2116 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:38)
    3. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2442617 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:38)
    4. INFO: Proposed Blocker, dracut, ASSIGNED (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:38)
    5. AGREED: 2442617 - RejectedBlocker (Final) RejectedFreezeException (Final) - this is rejected as a blocker as it's clear from comment 21 that this does not actually violate the cited criterion. It also doesn't seem to warrant FE status; it's not terribly severe and can be addressed sufficiently as a post-release update (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:13:21)
    6. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+1,0,-4) (+loquser, -augenauf, -adamwill, -nielsenb, -derekenz) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:13:36)
  5. TOPIC:(2459430) Fedora 44 has power_save on for the wifi NIC RTL8852BE which makes internet slow on affected laptops. (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:13:36)
    1. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+3,0,-2) (+nixuser, +asciiwolf, +loquser, -augenauf, -nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:13:36)
    2. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459430 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:13:36)
    3. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2120 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:13:36)
    4. INFO: Proposed Blocker, kernel, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:13:36)
    5. AGREED: 2459430 - RejectedBlocker (Final) - this is rejected as a non-fatal (but annoying) issue on a single wifi chip is clearly below the threshold in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blocker_Bug_FAQ#What_about_hardware_and_local_configuration_dependent_issues? (if we blocked Fedora releases on annoying issues on single wifi chips, we'd never release anything). FE status left open as votes are split for now (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:19:20)
    6. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2455924 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:19:56)
    7. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2097 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:19:56)
    8. INFO: Proposed Blocker, kernel, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:19:56)
    9. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+4,1,-3) (+pstourac, +asciiwolf, +psklenar, +loquser, augenauf, -geraldosimiao, -derekenz, -nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:19:56)
    10. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+5,0,-0) (+geraldosimiao, +augenauf, +derekenz, +nixuser, +nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:19:56)
  6. TOPIC:(2455924) ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13: black screen when typing LUKS password (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:19:56)
    1. AGREED: 2455924 - RejectedBlocker (Final) - this is rejected as a blocker. It's a difficult call as the symptom is significant when you run into it, but we still find it won't affect most folks (you need to both do an encrypted install and have affected hardware of some kind for it to be a significant issue), and we suspect it's not much different from previous releases (though it's hard to be sure). There are workarounds, although none is super simple, and you can blind type the passphrase if you guess what's going on. We're also worried that there's no clear path to a resolution if this is accepted, given the apparent range of hardware affected and the difficulty in reasoning about how to try and fix this on those cases without breaking others (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:03:39)
    2. INFO: that's all the proposed blockers, let's do: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:04:19)
  7. TOPIC:Proposed Freeze Exception issues (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:04:27)
    1. INFO: Proposed Freeze Exceptions, grub2, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:04:43)
    2. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+2,0,-3) (+ngompa, +asciiwolf, -adamwill, -nielsenb, -derekenz) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:04:43)
    3. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2109 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:04:43)
  8. TOPIC:(2457333) Grub environment block is corrupted at first boot (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:04:43)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2457333 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:04:43)
    2. AGREED: 2457333 - RejectedFreezeException (Final) - this is rejected on the basis it's a bit late to be poking bootloader-related code to try and fix what ultimately appears to be a cosmetic issue (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:07:36)
  9. TOPIC:Accepted Final blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:07:52)
    1. INFO: Accepted Blocker, anaconda, ON_QA (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:08:09)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2113 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:08:09)
    3. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458907 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:08:09)
  10. TOPIC:(2458907) Installation of the system failed: Storing configuration files and kickstarts org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'path' (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:08:09)
    1. INFO: it's hard to VERIFY this one as it's an unpredictable flake, but we have fairly strong confidence in the fix (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:08:22)
    2. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448283 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:11:27)
  11. TOPIC:(2448283) Selecting a non-ASCII capable keyboard layout should automatically also select US English as a second layout (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:11:27)
    1. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2078 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:11:27)
    2. INFO: Accepted Blocker, plasma-setup, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:11:27)
    3. INFO: this specific issue is still not resolved, but we do note that it's possibly a less active concern due to 2453216 being addressed. the most likely course of action is that we will waive this at the go/no-go meeting on Thursday (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:17:47)
    4. INFO: the remaining two outstanding accepted blockers are VERIFIED (2453216 and 2458901) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:19:00)
  12. TOPIC:Open floor (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:19:03)


Meeting ended at 17:27:34 UTC

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