Agenda for the Flatcar Office Hours on Tuesday, 14th of November 2023 3:30pm UTC

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• Jitsi: https://meet.flatcar.org/OfficeHours
• Youtube live stream / recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB2T6pjZKLI
• Community Calls calendar (all future calls): Google Calendar
  • iCal version: ical

Welcome

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

Agenda items

• Meetings are now switched to UTC to work around daylight saving time issues (us/eu differences, IST indifference)

Distro news

Sysexts

• Torcx replacement complete, now all is sysext
• OEM updates available in Alpha/Beta except for GCP

Big Docker update coming

• Docker will be updated to 24.0.x in the next Alpha
  • The btrfs storage driver is deprecated in this Docker update. Users need to investigate long-term strategies to move away from that driver.

Future-proofing

• The /usr partition is now compressed to give more wiggle room for future binary bloat

Flatcar project contributions insights

• We now publish monthly project contribution statistics, e.g.: Monthly contributions report 2023-09-22 - 2023-10-21 #1244
  • based on contributors and issue-metrics actions
  • Notable new / closed Issues and PRs will be reviewed in our monthly dev syncs

Release Planning

• https://github.com/orgs/flatcar/projects/7/views/8

Administrative tasks after meeting concluded

• Create a new Github discussion for the next Flatcar Office Hours: https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/discussions/new?category=flatcar-office-hours
• Close this discussion as "Resolved".