19:04:13 <wilcal> #startmeeting 19:04:13 <Inigo_Montoya`> Meeting started Thu Jul 27 19:04:13 2017 UTC. The chair is wilcal. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 19:04:13 <Inigo_Montoya`> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 19:04:21 <tarazed> Sundown in an hour or so here 19:04:32 <wilcal> Welcome to another one 19:04:43 <wilcal> 1-week post M6 release 19:04:59 <lewyssmith> Any good news? 19:05:02 <wilcal> #chair lewyssmith 19:05:02 <Inigo_Montoya`> Current chairs: lewyssmith wilcal 19:05:30 <wilcal> first lets 19:05:32 <wilcal> #topic Who's new? 19:05:39 <wilcal> anyone new to the group 19:06:11 <wilcal> nobodies raising their hand 19:06:31 <wilcal> #topic M6 Mageia 19:06:55 <wilcal> Except for the upgrade issue I've not seen too much 19:06:56 <brian___> how are the reviews? 19:07:20 <lewyssmith> I replied on the Blog to the fellow who was stupidly abusive. 19:08:13 <wilcal> ya i saw that 19:08:24 <lewyssmith> Accepting minor wrinkles, Mageia 6 is a good release. 19:08:38 <wilcal> very stable 19:09:06 <wilcal> I've one more box to upgrade here and it's the main server 19:09:13 <tarazed> My production machine is M6 - no problems 19:09:23 <wilcal> everything else is switched over and no problems 19:10:03 <brian___> Prod is now m6 as well. Laptop still needs the upgrade 19:10:03 <lewyssmith> Welcome TJ 19:10:07 <tarazed> Hi there tj 19:10:18 <tjandrews> Hi. 19:10:20 <wilcal> in retrospect should we have discouraged nvideia based KDE -> Plasma upgrades? 19:10:31 <lewyssmith> We did, rather. 19:10:53 <wilcal> Maybe not strong enough. Don't do it IMO 19:11:11 <lewyssmith> It has been said many times. 19:11:26 <tarazed> Is it a permanent recommendation? 19:11:56 <tarazed> i.e. M6 -> M7 19:12:03 <lewyssmith> No. 19:12:06 <tjandrews> I don't like upgrades anyway, which I've said many times, too. 19:12:10 <wilcal> So officially M6 is behind us and now just updates for awhile 19:12:21 <lewyssmith> We had a huge deate on qa-discuss. 19:12:33 <tarazed> And some - two releases 19:12:48 <lewyssmith> I have just posted about that. 19:13:25 <lewyssmith> For the next topic... 19:13:40 <wilcal> #topic Testing Updates & Backports 19:13:47 <wilcal> Big pile 19:13:49 <lewyssmith> Give me a moment... 19:14:19 <wilcal> I've an empty weekend in front of me and should be able to work on some of those 19:14:37 <lewyssmith> The main question we need to decide is: Is just a 32-bit test OK sufficient? We already permit just 64-bit. 19:14:58 <tarazed> Buried in M5 graphics magick 19:15:07 <lewyssmith> I have knocked off several as 64-bit OK only. 19:15:30 <tjandrews> I have a full week coming up. Going on a fishing trip. Probably won't want to do any testing... 19:15:36 <tarazed> For items like GM definitely 19:15:43 <brian___> I'm not sure of the build differences between the two 19:15:50 <lewyssmith> Please, give an opinion about the same for 32-bit only. 19:16:33 <tarazed> If they are light updates I am happy to do 32bit in vbox 19:16:35 <brian___> I'm back from a trip and did some 32-bit. My general opinion is if one arch is tested we should be ok 19:16:52 <tmb> I'd suggest 64bit tests are "more" important than 32bit, as according to downloads we have more 64bit users... 19:16:57 <wilcal> Especially if it's 64-bit 19:16:58 <tjandrews> I'd be OK with 32-bit only. 19:17:00 <brian___> however there is exposure 19:17:12 <brian___> I'd agree, 64-bit is the bigger audience 19:17:14 <lewyssmith> tarazed: Len, the question is "Can we OK a release with just a 32-bit test?" 19:17:36 <tarazed> I would be more inclined to 32bit testing after mga5 EOL 19:17:53 <tarazed> A hesitant yes. 19:17:56 <lewyssmith> We can go back to both, then. 19:17:58 <hviaene> Hi all 19:18:16 <lewyssmith> Hello Herman. Talking about you (indirectly). 19:18:20 <brian___> ok 19:18:42 <brian___> I'm back, so have exposure to both architectures for now. 19:18:57 <hviaene> Dutch saying: my ears were whistling 19:19:12 <tarazed> herman: you have i586 only don't you? 19:19:14 <wilcal> :-) 19:19:20 <lewyssmith> tmb: - lots: the problem is, more 32-bit tests are being done currently. We need to profit from them. 19:19:29 <wilcal> The only way I can test 32-bit now is in Vbox 19:19:40 <hviaene> No, I have a x86-64 as well 19:20:30 <hviaene> But I spend my time in the i586, because I am one of the few with such HW 19:20:31 <brian___> all of my equipment is 64-bit, but run 32 on the low memory ones 19:21:08 <tmb> lewyssmith, yeah, I think 32bit tests are ok for most stuff and noarch stuff ... usually if it works on 32bit it will work on 64bit too... 19:21:09 <lewyssmith> TJ has said, for the moment, 32-bit OK only is acceptable (per release). Any seconders? 19:21:26 <wilcal> ok by me 19:21:44 <hviaene> Hmmmmmm 19:21:50 <lewyssmith> I will post that; we can alwys back-track once the situation is under control. 19:22:00 <tjandrews> Could we ask for some kind of flag in the cases where 64-bit is needed too? 19:22:31 <lewyssmith> Just ML comment for kernels, mesa, VBox etc. 19:22:53 <wilcal> Anyone familiar with that OpenVPN 19:23:00 <lewyssmith> Theorteically 64-bit is always needed. This is exceptional. 19:23:03 <tarazed> If most people have to go to vbox for i586 is that a good idea? 19:23:09 <brian___> I can run the basic tests. 19:23:12 <tarazed> Definitely not for kernels. 19:23:17 <lewyssmith> And you do. 19:23:19 <brian___> (openvpn) 19:23:26 <lewyssmith> that was to brian. 19:23:55 <tmb> yeah, most real low level hw relasted stuff should be tested on both, so kernel, mesa, gpu drivers, glibc... the rest should be somewat safe 19:24:16 <lewyssmith> tmb: We all agree about this. 19:24:57 <wilcal> sounds like a plan 19:25:07 <lewyssmith> brian___: If you can do VPN, please do! 19:25:26 <wilcal> so onward we go with M6 release more time for updates testing 19:25:49 <lewyssmith> Thanks for discussing that. 19:25:53 <wilcal> should be a short meeting today 19:25:55 <tmb> and with that in mind... there will land kernel updates for mga5 and mga6 tonight /tomorrow... and when they are validated and pushed, there will be a new virtualbox... 19:26:05 <brian___> :Lewysmith - will do 19:26:07 <lewyssmith> grrrr 19:26:16 <lewyssmith> to tmb! 19:26:23 * tmb hides 19:26:27 <wilcal> Oh Oh sounds like my weekend just got filled 19:26:29 <brian___> LOL - woohoo - Kernel/vbox 19:26:44 <lewyssmith> Bill loves these. 19:26:54 <brian___> he is the vbox king 19:27:02 <wilcal> It really fills a couple days to go through it all 19:27:05 <lewyssmith> And Len. 19:27:19 * tjandrews will only have his laptop this week, and only M6. 19:27:44 <lewyssmith> Sounds good. 19:27:47 <brian___> tj - testing on the boat while fishing. ;-) 19:28:03 <wilcal> If there's lots of sports on TV that helps 19:28:04 <lewyssmith> Give the man some peace! 19:28:16 <lewyssmith> (TJ) 19:28:17 <tony__> Maybe testing while at a conference all weekend - if boring enough.. 19:28:56 <wilcal> A long time ago far far away I did several conferences that involved setting data storage standards 19:29:03 <wilcal> weeks of boring stuff 19:29:14 <lewyssmith> But you got paid? 19:29:32 <wilcal> I was on a payrole yest 19:29:54 <wilcal> It was the committee that set the SCSI standard 19:30:02 <wilcal> 70's 19:30:03 <lewyssmith> Ah! 19:30:28 <wilcal> Came out of Shugart Associates hardware 19:30:38 <lewyssmith> Is SCSI still used (updated) 19:30:39 <tjandrews> Having a "real" job, working for somebody else - hard to imagine... 19:30:57 <wilcal> It's still around only well hidden :-)) 19:31:30 <lewyssmith> Let us move on? 19:31:39 <hviaene> It got me to travel and stay around the world 19:31:45 <wilcal> #topic Anything Else? 19:32:07 <wilcal> Do look around for reviews off M6 19:32:23 <wilcal> Hang out in the Mageia discussion forum 19:32:28 <tarazed> Not really but this 32bit thing has come out of left field. Need time to think. 19:32:34 <lewyssmith> Note: I shall be away about 12d, not here next week. Will e-mail our leaders - it could matter. 19:32:58 <wilcal> Note there was no Council meeting this week 19:33:47 <wilcal> Anything else 19:33:48 <lewyssmith> They need a breather. 19:33:52 <brian___> true 19:34:00 <hviaene> Not from me 19:34:03 <lewyssmith> Hello Ben; just finishing! 19:34:06 <tjandrews> Hi, Ben. 19:34:14 <wilcal> Hello Ben any else from you 19:34:15 <tarazed> Hi ben 19:34:17 <Benmc> hi al. I see the end is near 19:34:24 <wilcal> M6 19:34:33 <Benmc> nothing stand out 19:34:46 <lewyssmith> Bugs are being fixed. 19:35:00 <wilcal> That's a good thing 19:35:01 <Benmc> I see that 19:35:09 <tony__> trivia - xfce never logging out by default? 19:35:18 <tjandrews> EFI the sticking point in M5, Plasma in M6, wondering what it will be in M7. 19:35:33 <lewyssmith> Please! 19:35:40 <wilcal> M6 -> M7 upgrade should be smoother 19:35:44 <hviaene> Don't challenge tth gods 19:35:55 <Benmc> must be LXDE turn for issues 19:36:08 <rindolf> hviaene: heh 19:36:11 <tjandrews> wilcal: Should I make a note of that? 19:36:38 <wilcal> Oh how are we doing on the effort to put Mageia on the Raspberry Pi hear anything? 19:36:49 <hviaene> tony: xfce eventually halts, but ut acn take 15 min. 19:37:27 <lewyssmith> wilcal: That should involve kernwes 19:37:30 <wilcal> yes tj 19:37:51 <wilcal> Anything else? 19:37:54 <tjandrews> It could come back to haunt you... 19:38:02 <brian___> I guess just test test test those security patches 19:38:18 <wilcal> Lets end this then work those updates 19:38:22 <wilcal> Count down 19:38:26 <wilcal> T-5 19:38:29 <lewyssmith> Goodbye all, see you in 2w. Thanks Bill for the usual good IRC job. 19:38:33 <hviaene> G' night all 19:38:36 <wilcal> bye all 19:38:39 <wilcal> T-4 19:38:42 <tjandrews> bye all. 19:38:44 <wilcal> T-3 19:38:48 <tarazed> Have a good time Lewis. 19:38:49 <wilcal> T-2 19:38:55 <wilcal> T-1 19:39:00 <tarazed> See you all 19:39:10 <wilcal> #endmeeting