Fedora Workstation Working Group Meeting 2025-06-17

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Tomáš Popela offering to help identify and clean up outdated 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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