ALESCo Meeting Minutes (2025-05-28)

Minutes recorded by Neal Gompa.

Edited by Neal Gompa for publishing.

Members

ALESCo Member Attendees

• Neal Gompa
• Andrew Lukoshko
• Ben Thomas
• Jonathan Wright

Unable to attend

• Elkhan Mammadli
• Cody Robertson

Board Attendees

• N/A

Community Attendees

• Davide Cavalca
• Lance Albertson
• Luna Jernberg

Decisions Adopted

• The RFC to enable CRB by default for AlmaLinux 10+ was APPROVED
• The RFC to show the GNOME dynamic workspace indicator on GNOME was APPROVED

Minutes

RFC: Enable CRB by default for AlmaLinux 10+

• Discussed RFC (https://github.com/AlmaLinux/ALESCo/pull/10) written by Neal Gompa
  • Jonathan asked if everyone is ready to vote, everyone assented
  • RFC was put to a vote
    • Vote results: +4, 0, -1 (4 in favor, 0 abstained, 1 not in favor)
      • Cody voted +1 async for this in the GitHub discussion
      • Andrew voted -1
    • RFC approved

RFC: Enable Btrfs as a tech preview

• Discussed RFC (https://github.com/AlmaLinux/ALESCo/pull/9) written by Michel Lind
  • Jonathan asked if everyone is ready to vote
    • Andrew dissented and would like to see it land in Kitten first and then land in 10.1
    • Neal agrees with this, especially since AlmaLinux OS 10.0 is already released
    • Andrew wants to see how this affects the kernel with a proof of concept implementation first
    • Neal and Andrew will work to build this out
    • Vote punted until proof of concept is built

RFC: Use dynamic workspace indicator on GNOME

• Discussed RFC (https://github.com/AlmaLinux/ALESCo/pull/6) written by Elkhan Mammadli
  • Jonathan notes there have been lots of updates to improve this since last discussed
  • Jonathan asked if everyone is ready to vote, everyone assented
  • RFC was put to a vote
    • All attending ALESCo members voted to approve the proposal

Open Floor

Feedback on PowerKVM

• Lance: QEMU machine types for PowerKVM are broken with libvirt/OpenStack
• Andrew and Lance will work together to resolve issues