Server Side Public License (SSPL) v1
by Tom Callaway
After review, Fedora has determined that the Server Side Public License
v1 (SSPL) is not a Free Software License.
It is the belief of Fedora that the SSPL is intentionally crafted to be
aggressively discriminatory towards a specific class of users.
Additionally, it seems clear that the intent of the license author is to
cause Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt towards commercial users of software
under that license. To consider the SSPL to be "Free" or "Open Source"
causes that shadow to be cast across all other licenses in the FOSS
ecosystem, even though none of them carry that risk.
It is also worth nothing that while there is a draft for a "v2" of the SSPL:
A) It is not final.
B) It is not in use anywhere at this time (as far as we know).
C) The intent of the v2 draft text is not changed from the v1 license
currently in use.
We have updated our "Bad License" list to include SSPLv1. No software
under that license may be included in Fedora (including EPEL and COPRs).
Thanks,
Tom Callaway
Fedora Legal
1 month, 2 weeks
Re: NeuroFedora review swaps
by Ankur Sinha
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 15:47:00 +0100, J. Scheurich wrote:
>
> > I'd like to get this package reviewed please:
> >
> > - python-pyscaffold: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1669913#
> >
> > Would anyone like to swap reviews?
>
> I would review it for wdune sponsoring.
Sorry---I'm not current with the wdune scenario. I assumed you meant
that you'd review it unofficially as part of the work to get sponsored
to the packagers group:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_gro...
I'm not a sponsor yet so I cannot sponsor you to the group myself, but
once you've done a few reviews, a sponsor will be happy to take a look
at them and guide you through the sponsorship process.
If you've submitted a review ticket for wdune already, I will be happy
to review it and provide comments.
--
Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha
https://ankursinha.in
Time zone: Europe/London
1 month, 3 weeks
F34 Change proposal: Wayland by Default for KDE Plasma Desktop
(System-Wide Change)
by Ben Cotton
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefaultForPlasma
== Summary ==
Change the default session selection in SDDM to prefer the
Wayland-based KDE Plasma Desktop session over the X11-based one.
== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:Ngompa|Neal Gompa]], [[User:Rdieter|Rex Dieter]],
[[User:Jgrulich|Jan Grulich]]
* Email: ngompa13(a)gmail.com, rdieter(a)gmail.com, jgrulich(a)redhat.com
* Product: KDE Spin
* Responsible WG: KDE SIG
== Detailed Description ==
With KDE Plasma 5.20, the KDE Plasma desktop environment has reached a
point where nearly all commonly used features in the desktop and all
major applications function in the Plasma Wayland environment on all
major GPUs (including NVIDIA with the proprietary driver). Starting
with Plasma 5.20 in Fedora 34, we will change the default
configuration for Wayland and X11 Plasma sessions so that Wayland is
preferred and used by default, while permitting the X11 session to be
selected as the alternative desktop environment option.
== Feedback ==
==== Is Wayland ready? ====
Wayland has been used by default for Fedora Workstation (which uses
GNOME) since Fedora 25. And while it was somewhat immature initially,
today it is a very rock-solid experience on virtually everything
Fedora Workstation runs on. The change in Fedora 25 kickstarted the
drive to get everything working on Wayland, and the Workstation team
succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Firefox has been Wayland-native
by default since Fedora 31 as well.
On the KDE side, serious work into supporting Wayland started shortly
after GNOME switched to Wayland by default. Unlike GNOME, KDE has a
much broader stack in its toolkit, and it has taken longer to get to a
usable state. With the Plasma 5.20 release, the Wayland protocol for
screencasting as well as middle-click paste finally are supported,
completing the required feature set for switching to Wayland by
default.
==== What about NVIDIA? ====
Plasma, in fact, ''does'' support NVIDIA GPUs with the proprietary
driver on Wayland. It needs to be manually activated, which will be
taken care of by the <code>kwin-wayland-nvidia</code> package. So the
expectation is that all major GPUs will work just fine.
==== Why not keep using X11? ====
The fact of the matter is, Xorg is in
[https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fedora-workstati...
"hard maintenance mode"] per [[User:Uraeus|Christian Schaller]] and
development on it has basically stopped beyond the most critical of
fixes. Combined with the rapid maturation of the Wayland session in
KDE Plasma, this is the best time to make the switch and push things
over the edge for the KDE ecosystem in the same way that Fedora
Workstation did for the GNOME ecosystem.
== Benefit to Fedora ==
Fedora has long been a leader in advancing the adoption of the Wayland
protocol as part of the overall strategy to improve the Linux
graphical software stack. Much of the quality of Wayland for GNOME can
be attributed to the work done by the Fedora Workstation WG as part of
advancing the GNOME platform. It is now the KDE SIG's turn to do the
same for the KDE platform. By making this change, we are helping push
the adoption forward for newer, more streamlined, and overall more
actively developed graphics technology for the KDE ecosystem.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
** Modify {{package|kwin}} to switch to Wayland
*** Split out <code>/usr/bin/kwin_x11</code> to the
<code>kwin-x11</code> subpackage.
*** Make {{package|kwin}} require <code>kwin-wayland</code> and
recommend <code>kwin-x11</code>
*** Add <code>kwin-wayland-nvidia</code> subpackage which contains
<code>/usr/lib/environment.d/10-kwin-wayland-nvidia.conf</code> to set
<code>$KWIN_DRM_USE_EGL_STREAMS</code> to <code>1</code>. This package
will have have a Supplements dependency <code>(kwin-wayland and
kmod-nvidia)</code>.
** Modify {{package|plasma-workspace}} to switch to Wayland
*** Rename <code>/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop</code> to
<code>/usr/share/xsessions/plasma-xorg.desktop</code>, subpackage it
out as <code>plasma-workspace-xorg</code>, and have it require
<code>kwin-x11</code>
*** Rename <code>/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasmawayland.desktop</code>
to <code>/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop</code>
*** Make {{package|plasma-workspace}} require
<code>plasma-workspace-wayland</code> and recommend
<code>plasma-workspace-xorg</code>
** Modify <code>@kde-desktop</code> comps group for Fedora 34 to
include <code>plasma-workspace-xorg</code> for the media.
* Other developers: N/A (not applicable for this Change)
* Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/9741 #9741]
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
* Alignment with Objectives: N/A (not applicable for this Change)
== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
Systems using certain (very old) graphics hardware or graphics drivers
(matrox, etc.) may have problems running the Wayland session. In these
(rare) cases, users may have to configure SDDM to use X11.
== How To Test ==
Log into a KDE Plasma desktop. Do any activity you would normally do
in your daily desktop use: launching applications, configuring
displays, etc. Things should work the same way under Wayland as they
used to under X.
== User Experience ==
The user experience should not change noticeably.
== Dependencies ==
This mainly affects the {{package|plasma-workspace}} and
{{package|kwin}} packages, and details for the changes for those
packages are described in the Scope section.
== Contingency Plan ==
* Contingency mechanism: Revert the file renames and switch
<code>plasma-workspace-xorg</code> to be the required package instead
of <code>plasma-workspace-wayland</code>
* Contingency deadline: beta freeze
* Blocks release? Yes
* Blocks product? KDE Spin
== Documentation ==
Some upstream documents about Wayland
* https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland
* https://community.kde.org/KWin/Wayland
There is currently no coherent up to date documentation about Plasma Wayland.
== Release Notes ==
The KDE Plasma Desktop is using the Wayland display system now. X
applications will continue to run transparently through XWayland.
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Senior Program Manager, Fedora & CentOS Stream
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
2 months, 1 week
%lua_requires behaves differently in F33+
by Michel Alexandre Salim
Hi,
Björn added some useful Lua packaging macros in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1447324
One of them, %lua_requires, adds a dependency on either `lua(abi) =
%{lua_version}` or, on EL6 and below, on lua >= current version and lua
< next version.
Somehow this seems to be automatically applied on Fedora 33 and above
-- without adding any manual require on lua(abi)
e.g. lua-lunitx on Fedora 33
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-7c23dc64c0
on Fedora 32, though, the macro is not automatically invoked (so the
update below is bad and I need to redo it)
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-9074133de4
In fact, trying to use %lua_requires does not seem to work, with and
without curly braces:
error: line 15: Unknown tag: %lua_requires
error: line 15: Unknown tag: %{lua_requires}
Could someone help explain these two behaviors? I'm working on resuming
the Lua packaging draft so I want to have a canonical example on how
the macros are supposed to be used.
PS Björn -- we should consider moving the macros out of lua-devel and
into lua-rpm-macros, that lua-devel then depends on. That will fix the
inability to get these macros out to EPEL6 and EPEL7 - on those, lua
packages can just BR the macro package directly.
--
Michel Alexandre Salim
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chat via email: https://delta.chat/
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3 months
Disabling Fedora 30 chroots in Copr
by Jakub Kadlcik
Hello,
we have just disabled Fedora 30 chroots in Copr.
According to the Fedora wiki [1], Fedora 30 reached the end of its life
on 2020-05-26 and therefore we are disabling it in Copr.
That effectively means that from this moment, it is no longer possible
to submit builds for the following chroots:
- fedora-30-x86_64
- fedora-30-i386
- fedora-30-ppc64le
- fedora-30-aarch64
- fedora-30-armhfp
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life
Jakub
3 months, 2 weeks
F34 Change proposal: Compress Kernel Firmware (Self-Contained Change)
by Ben Cotton
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CompressKernelFirmware
== Summary ==
Compress Kernel Firmwares to reduce on disk size
== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:pbrobinson| Peter Robinson]]
* Email: [mailto:pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org| pbrobinson(a)fedoraproject.org]
== Detailed Description ==
Since the linux 5.3 kernel there has been support for loading firmware
from xz compressed firmware. The upstream linux-firmware respository
is now over 900Mb, not including other kernel firmware that are in
Fedora but come from other sources. By compessing the firmware with
"xz -C crc32", the only option currently supported in the kernel, we
can reduce the ondisk size of the firmware by almost half.
== Benefit to Fedora ==
Reduced on disk size of the firmware used by the kernel.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
** Add support upstream to the linux-firmware copy-firmware script to
compess the firmware and create the symlinks to the compressed
firmware
** Enable the upstream support in the Fedora linux-firmware package to
compress the firmware at build time
** Enable compressing firmware in packages that contain firmware used
by the kernel: eg alsa-sof-firmware, atmel-firmware, zd1211-firmware
** Enable the CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS kernel option (long complete)
* Other developers:
** No impact
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
There should be no upgrade impact, the support was added to the
generic firmware loader interface in the kernel.
== How To Test ==
Check devices that need firmware still work. Some devices that need
firmware include:
* GPU drivers such as nvidia, AMD and i915
* Wireless drivers such as those from Intel, Broadcom/Cyprus, TI,
Qualcomm and Marvel
* Wired network interfaces
* Storage drivers
* USB controllers and drivers
== User Experience ==
Generally users should notice little to no difference.
== Dependencies ==
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
== Contingency Plan ==
* Contingency mechanism: Don't compress kernel firmware
* Contingency deadline: GA
* Blocks release? No.
* Blocks product? No.
== Documentation ==
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
== Release Notes ==
N/A
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Senior Program Manager, Fedora & CentOS Stream
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
4 months, 1 week