Hi, we didn't have a meeting agenda in advance of this week's meeting,
but here is the meeting summary. As always, the summary is generated by
Gemini and edited by me:
Jun 17, 2025
Meeting Jun 17, 2025 at 08:49 CDT
Summary
Felipe Borges started a conversation regarding decreasing the amount of
packages the GNOME team supports, with Michael Catanzaro concurring on
the necessity to reduce maintenance but advising against considering
whether applications are available on Flathub when removing ownership.
Michael Catanzaro and Tomáš Popela discussed the difficulties in
updating package ownership, while Matthias Clasen shared an update on
the new sandboxed Rust-based image loader and Neal Gompa (Conan Kudo)
provided an update on the OpenH.264 status.
Details
Package Set Reduction
Felipe Borges initiated a discussion about reducing the number of
packages maintained by the GNOME team, suggesting that many are not
core to the desktop experience and might be better sourced from
Flathub. Michael Catanzaro agreed with the need to stop maintaining
everything but cautioned against removing packages solely based on
Flathub availability, as it's not a default for Fedora users. The group
decided to work on a list of packages to potentially orphan, with
Tomáš Popela offering to help identify and clean up outdated
maintainer assignments.
Package Ownership Challenges
Michael Catanzaro and Tomáš Popela acknowledged the difficulty of
transferring ownership of GNOME SIG packages to new maintainers, as a
human admin is required. Tomáš Popela mentioned a bug in Pagure that
complicates administrative changes to packages, requiring intervention
from Fedora infrastructure. The team agreed to communicate their intent
to stop maintaining certain packages to allow current or new
maintainers to step in.
Image Loading Security Update
Matthias Clasen announced the upstream release of a new Glycin and
gdk-pixbuf update that replaces legacy pixbuf loaders with a sandboxed
Rust-based loader, aiming to improve image loading security. They
anticipated this change to land in rawhide soon and alerted the team to
potential issues with image loading or performance due to the
sandboxing.
OpenH.264 Status
Matthias Clasen followed up on the status of Open H.264, and Neal Gompa
(Conan Kudo) reported receiving communication from Cisco indicating
progress. Despite time zone challenges, Neal Gompa (Conan Kudo) is
actively engaging with contacts at Cisco to resolve the issue. Matthias
Clasen decided to keep this on the agenda for the following week.
Suggested next steps
Nieves Montero Fernandez will update the mclazy script to remove the
identified packages.
Felipe Borges, Michael Catanzaro, and Tomáš Popela will coordinate to
identify non-core packages for removal, create a list, and announce
this to the Fedora devel mailing list.
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