Agenda for the Flatcar Office Hours on Tuesday, 11th of October 2022 17:30 CEST / 11:30am EDT / 8:30am PDT

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Agenda for the Flatcar Office Hours on Tuesday, 11th of October 2022 17:30 CEST / 11:30am EDT / 8:30am PDT

• Jitsi: https://meet.flatcar.org/OfficeHours
• Youtube live stream / recording: link
• Community Calls calendar (all future calls): Google Calendar
  • iCal version: ical

Welcome

• Brief intro/check-in of the new participants in the Zoom call. Please introduce yourself and share what brings you here today.

Agenda items

(Work in progress, please add your suggestions as comments!)

• New Jitsi instance for our meetings (@t-lo )
• Summary of the Image-based Linux summit in Berlin (@bluca)
• Progress on ARM64 SDK (@jepio ?)
• SPDX SBOM (@jepio ?)
• Inclusion of SLSA provenance in Alpha and Beta (@t-lo ) - see https://www.flatcar.org/docs/latest/reference/supply-chain/
• New pipeline now in production (@t-lo ) - see https://github.com/flatcar/scripts/tree/main/ci-automation
• Flatcar on ARM64 Azure Marketplace (@sayanchowdhury)
• Kernel updates workflow (@krnowak )
• User / maintainer sync on Flatcar Container Linux fails and reboots: "kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c" #378 , data and telemetry to help debugging this, and next steps (@seh )

Release planning

• Stable patch releases now 1 week later to let kernel soak in Beta for a week (@sayanchowdhury )
• Ongoing and upcoming releases (https://github.com/orgs/flatcar/projects/7/views/8)

Q&A

• Questions from community participants, answered by the Flatcar maintainers

[krnowak]

I'd like to talk about kernel updates workflow. Currently writing the doc about it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Jd0cKTlkWYbl2WJNXtG2_0vpcJ5fqbbM9R1v5jW4Wg/edit?usp=sharing

[krnowak]

Comments in the docs are welcome, of course.

[t-lo]

Some thoughts / topics we could touch:

• New Jitsi instance for our meetings (@t-lo )
• Summary of the Image-based Linux summit in Berlin (@bluca)
• ARM64 SDK (@jepio ?)
• SPDX SBOM (@jepio ?)
• New pipeline now in production (@t-lo )
• Inclusion of SLSA provenance in Alpha and Beta (@t-lo )
• Stable patch releases now 1 week later to let kernel soak in Beta for a week (@sayanchowdhury ?)
• Flatcar on ARM64 Azure Marketplace (@sayanchowdhury ?)
• User / maintainer sync on Flatcar Container Linux fails and reboots: "kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c" #378 , data and telemetry to help debugging this, and next steps (@seh )

[seh]

Do you ever discuss outstanding GitHub issues during these calls? #378 remains a major problem for us, and I don't know if it's actually a problem with Flatcar, or just with the Linux kernel, regardless of distribution. I'll attend the next meeting if it's a fitting forum for such topics.

[jepio]

@seh we discuss any topic someone brings to the community call. #378 is tricky because we have no way of reproducing, and we use a fairly vanilla upstream kernel so it’s likely an upstream issue. In cases like this we need more help from the reporter with debugging and reporting to LKML.

[t-lo]

I've added an agenda item to discuss debugging info that could help us (and how to get the info), and to brainstorm on next steps.

[t-lo]

And yes, to answer the original question, the office hours are a good place to bring issues to attention. Sometimes day-long back-and-forth on an issue can be cut to a few minutes of video chat :)

[pothos]

Updated the link to https://github.com/orgs/flatcar/projects/7/views/8