Fedora Workstation Working Group Meeting Notes, 28 April

[Allan Day]

# Fedora Workstation Working Group meeting, 28 April 2026

## Attendees

- Allan
- Chris
- Luigi
- Matthias
- Michael
- Nieves

## Rotating working group chair

- Today is the last day of Michael's chair duty for the Fedora 44
- Last week the group agreed to rotate the chair on a monthly basis
- Matthias was next on the list, but has requested not to do it in May.
Apparently that means it's Allan next.
- Protocol for chairs:
  - Review open tickets
  - Tag tickets with the meeting tag to put them on the agenda
  - Send out the agenda each week
  - Keep track of who the secretary is
- Tomáš volunteers to be chair in May (thanks Tomáš!)
- Luigi suggests that we have docs on how to chair the group
  - ACTION: Michael to write a chairing guide

## Replace gnome-keyring-daemon with oo7-daemon #506

- Topic is: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/workstation/tickets/issues/506
- The GNOME keyring maintainers are in favour
- Michael, Tomáš and Matthias are in favour. The stack needs to be
modernized.
- ACTION: Michael/Matthias will additionally pursue making the change in
gnome-build-meta
- AGREED: replacement approved

## Automatically update appstream-data #507

- Topic is: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/workstation/tickets/issues/507
- See: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/appstream-data
- Apps can disappear in GNOME Software for periods due to this issue
- We need to regenerate the metadata automatically; hughsie is busy with
other things
- In the past it has been difficult to get something built automatically on
Fedora infra when it isn't a package, but things could have changed since
then
- Tomáš recommends that we ask Kevin from CPE about it (he's on the
workstation channel)
- ACTION: Matthias to do this

## Remove remnants of ABRT #503

- Topic is: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/workstation/tickets/issues/503
- We discussed this last week with Jeff. The conclusion was that we want
Workstation and KDE to do the same thing.
- Jeff also suggested that we post another call for volunteers on Discourse
- Michael proposes that we remove abrt for Fedora 45, and volunteers to
coordinate with the KDE team
- AGREED: there were no objections, removal is approved

## Enable a subset of Flathub by default #492

- Topic: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/workstation/tickets/issues/492
- This would require a change proposal and FESCo approval
- Michael wants to hear opinions - there are pros and cons
- Michael has concerns about the security of Flathub builds compared with
Fedora builds
- Other issues raised by Michael:
  - Apps stuck on EoL runtimes
  - Open source apps not being built from source
- If we do include a subset of Flathub, we will probably want to rethink
the 3rd party repos
- There is a proposal from Michael in #492:
  - Flathub would only build open source software from source, and would
expose only that set of apps
  - The "open" Flathub apps would then be enabled by default in Fedora,
with lower priority than Fedora Flatpaks
- Suggestion: WG members to review the proposal in the ticket so we can
discuss more

Next meeting: May 5th