2026-08-03 - Fedora Quality Meeting - AI summary and minutes

AI summary:

### Key Discussion Points

*   **Fedora 45 Status & Early Testing:**
    *   A request has been made for early, non-automated validation testing for Fedora 45, particularly for ARM builds, to catch major issues before branching.
    *   A known issue is a workstation crash on Raspberry Pi 4 related to a Vulkan driver bug ([RHBZ#2510680](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510680)).
    *   A GNOME update is currently failing openQA tests.
    *   The Anaconda installer plans to change its default font to Noto.
*   **Data Visualization Ideas:**
    *   The Fedora Data & Analytics team is seeking ideas for QA-related data to visualize.
    *   Suggestions included improving `testcase_stats`, visualizing community contributions, tracking the percentage of Bodhi updates with negative karma, and counting QA participants from sources like the mailing list.
    *   Tracking build completion rates and FTBFS (Failed to Build from Source) packages was also proposed.
*   **Test Day Planning:**
    *   Planning for a new round of test days is in progress.
    *   It was suggested that having actual regression/test suites for users to run during these events would be beneficial.
*   **`mcelog` Issue:**
    *   A discussion was held regarding the `mcelog` service, which is minimally maintained and fails on modern, unsupported CPUs (e.g., AMD).
    *   While this is technically permitted by the release criteria, the behavior is not ideal.
    *   The possibility of replacing `mcelog` with `rasdaemon` or not installing a RAS daemon by default was raised.

### Action Items

*   **Fedora 45 Testing:** Community members are encouraged to help with early manual validation testing for Fedora 45.
*   **Data Visualization:** Anyone with ideas for data visualization should add them to the ticket: [quality/tickets/issues/923](https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/tickets/issues/923).
*   **Test Day Scheduling:** The proposed test days need to be added to the [Test Days website](https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/) and the calendar soon to avoid scheduling conflicts.
*   **`mcelog` Follow-up:** Ephraim Kaov (`ephmo`) will start a thread on the `devel@` mailing list or `discussion.fedoraproject.org` to gather feedback on replacing `mcelog`.

Autogenerated minutes:

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# #meeting:fedoraproject.org: Quality
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Meeting started by @adamwill:fedora.im at 2026-08-03 15:00:24



Meeting summary
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* TOPIC: Roll Call (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:00:29)
* TOPIC: Previous meeting follow-up (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:03:34)
    * INFO: "kparal to take meeting log and turn it into tickets for proposed test days" - this happened and we are moving forward, see https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/tickets/issues/916 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:04:09)
* TOPIC: Fedora 45 status and early testing (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:06:17)
    * INFO: see https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/tickets/issues/926 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:06:28)
    * INFO: please help with early f45 manual validation if you can (see above ticket) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:11:30)
    * INFO: if you hit a workstation crash on raspberry pi 4 it might be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510680 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:12:40)
* TOPIC: Data visualization ideas - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/tickets/issues/923 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:15:24)
* TOPIC: Test Day / community event status (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:28:35)
    * INFO: current round of test day planning is at https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/tickets/issues/916 , events are not yet added to https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/ but we should do that soon (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:36:19)
* TOPIC: Open floor (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:36:35)
    * INFO: some more discussion of the issue with mcelog being minimally-maintained and "failing" on unsupported hardware, Ephraim Kaov will continue getting feedback on replacing it with rasdaemon (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:46:08)

Meeting ended at 2026-08-03 15:47:57

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* @ephmo:fedora.im (14)
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* @derekenz:fedora.im (5)
* @kashyapc:fedora.im (3)
* @jlinton:fedora.im (3)
* @psklenar:fedora.im (2)
* @meetbot:fedora.im (2)
* @jgroman:fedora.im (2)
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