F41 Change Proposal: Wayland-only GNOME Workstation Media (self-contained)

[Aoife Moloney]

Wiki - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandOnlyGNOMEWorkstationMedia
Discussion Topic -
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f41-change-proposal-wayland-only-g...

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes
process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive
community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved
by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

== Summary ==
Remove the GNOME X11 packages from the Fedora Workstation media. The
packages will remain available in the repositories maintained by the
GNOME SIG, but not preinstalled on the media anymore.


== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:Ngompa| Neal Gompa]]
* Email: ngompa13(a)gmail.com


== Detailed Description ==
As part of the upstream deprecation and effort to remove X11 support
from GNOME, Fedora Workstation media will no longer include the GNOME
X11 packages. The packages will remain in the repository (maintained
by the GNOME SIG/Workstation WG) for users to manually install at this
time.

== Feedback ==


== Benefit to Fedora ==
This aligns us with the effort going on upstream to deprecate and
retire the GNOME X11 session. It also partly aligns us with Fedora
KDE. Like the Fedora KDE SIG, the Fedora Workstation WG recommends and
supports the Wayland platform for graphics.

Fedora Workstation has a long history of developing and promoting the
Wayland experience for GNOME, and
[https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefaultOnNVIDIA it
has been the primary experience for all users (including those with
NVIDIA cards) since Fedora Linux 36]. This reaffirms our commitment to
the Wayland GNOME experience in furtherance of the goal to provide the
highest quality GNOME experience through Fedora Workstation.

== Scope ==
* Proposal owners: Drop the GNOME X11 packages from the GNOME groups
in comps and replace them with their Wayland counterparts. Pull
request: [https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/pull-request/972
pagureio#fedora-comps#972]

* Other developers: N/A (not needed for this Change)

* Release engineering: N/A (not needed for this Change)

* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

* Alignment with the Fedora Strategy: N/A (not needed for this Change)

== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
Systems upgrading from older releases of Fedora Workstation will not
be impacted, as this only affects new installs.

== Early Testing (Optional) ==
Not applicable to this change.

== How To Test ==
Not applicable to this change, as we're only dropping a non-default
experience from the media.

== User Experience ==
Going forward until the X11 session packages are fully dropped, users
will need to manually install them from the repository if they need
it.

== Dependencies ==
Not applicable for this change.


== Contingency Plan ==

* Contingency mechanism: Revert the comps change
* Contingency deadline: Final freeze
* Blocks release? Yes.


== Documentation ==
N/A (not a System Wide Change)

== Release Notes ==
Fedora Workstation no longer pre-installs the deprecated GNOME X11
session for new installations. Users who wish to add it back can do so
by installing the <code>gnome-session-xsession</code> and
<code>gnome-classic-session-xsession</code> packages.

-- 
Aoife Moloney

Fedora Operations Architect

Fedora Project

Matrix: @amoloney:fedora.im

IRC: amoloney
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