Passim is a local caching server that broadcasts specific shared metadata to other clients on your local network to reduce the amount of duplicate data downloaded from the internet.
Owners, do not implement this work until the FESCo vote has explicitly ended. The Fedora Program Manager will create a tracking bug in Bugzilla for this Change, which is your indication to proceed. See the FESCo ticket policy and the Changes policy for more information.
REMINDER: This ticket is for FESCo members to vote on the proposal. Further discussion should happen in the Discourse thread linked above.
Metadata Update from @adamwill: - Issue assigned to rhughes - Issue set to the milestone: Fedora Linux 40 - Issue tagged with: self contained change
+1
I'm not sure if I like having this enabled by default (and running on all networks machines are connected to). Having it be a dbus-activated service is also a sneaky way to bypass the requirement for FESCo to approve all "enabled by default" systemd services ...
It's not, actually. First of all: they're not attempting to bypass our approval since they filed a Change about it. Secondly, our Default Services Policy explicitly lists D-BUS activation as qualifying as a "default service".
That being said, I'm wary of this service. I'm going to put a temporary -1 vote in place to ensure we have a high-bandwidth discussion on it at the next meeting. In the meantime, I'll ask some questions on the list.
I'd like to better understand this, too.
Metadata Update from @mhayden: - Issue tagged with: meeting
We had a lively discussion on this one in today's meeting and as a result, this is APPROVED (+4, 2, -1).
One of the suggestions in the meeting was to be sure each edition has the appropriate firewall service definitions in place for this. Workstation will allow it since ports > 1024 are open already.
Metadata Update from @mhayden: - Issue untagged with: meeting
Metadata Update from @mhayden: - Issue close_status updated to: Accepted - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
Did FESCo consider whether this is really a "self-contained" change? It doesn't feel like one, to me.
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