ALESCo Meeting Minutes (2026-08-13)

Minutes recorded by Andrew Lukoshko.

Edited by Andrew Lukoshko for publishing.

Members

ALESCo Member Attendees

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

Unable to attend

Board Attendees

Community Attendees

Decisions Adopted

• New ALESCo Chair - Jonathan Wright
  • Vote was unanimous among ALESCo members with all 5 members voting for Jonathan as chair
• The mainline-based alternative kernel will be built as the kernel package with no suffixes.
• The stream variable will be dropped from the almalinux-release package in the AlmaLinux 10.3 stable release.

Minutes

Chair election:

• Jonathan Wright was elected as the new ALESCo Chair, unanimously, with all 5 members voting for him.

Discussed the new RFC: Build and Secure Boot-sign a mainline-based alternative kernel (opens new window), which replaces the closed RFC: Add alternative signed newer kernels (opens new window)

• It was decided to build it as the kernel package with no suffixes, so that enabling the repository replaces the stock kernel instead of installing a separately named one side by side.

Discussed EPEL possible breaking changes:

• It was decided to drop the stream variable from the almalinux-release package in the AlmaLinux 10.3 stable release.