I've been asked to reach out to the PowerPC user community for this and #3309, and both @sharkcz and I are trying to solicit feedback from them right now.

I'll wait for @ngompa to collect feedback.

@ngompa are there any updates on the mentioned feedbacks?

There seemed to be a couple of folks in the Talos Workstation community (at least on their IRC) that are somewhat interested in Flatpaks on ppc64le. I also posted into some other places and oddly enough I got more asks about ppc64 (the big endian one which we don't have). But there is a bit of interest in it from the ppc64le folks. They weren't aware it existed before now.

Any update on qtwebengine and infrastructure?

I believe @sharkcz will be sending a pull request to enable this. I added him as a co-maintainer so he could upstream his patches from his COPR into our package. He already maintains the patch set for chromium in Fedora.

I am going to "upstream" qtwebengine ppc64le support from my copr to Fedora as part of the rebase to 6.8.2, a real upstreaming is a no-go. Chromium for ppc64le is handled by @than, I guess he is using the same source of the ppc64le patchset provided by Raptor Engineering.

Regarding build infra, the Fedora infra team is doing some steps to migrate to Power10 systems, but don't know the details.

I am going to "upstream" qtwebengine ppc64le support from my copr to Fedora as part of the rebase to 6.8.2, a real upstreaming is a no-go

This is what I meant by upstreaming. I'm referring to COPR -> Fedora.

The chromium for ppc64le is handled by me and the ppc64le patchset are provided by Raptor Engineering

I believe @sharkcz will be sending a pull request to enable this. I added him as a co-maintainer so he could upstream his patches from his COPR into our package. He already maintains the patch set for chromium in Fedora.

I am going to "upstream" qtwebengine ppc64le support from my copr to Fedora as part of the rebase to 6.8.2, a real upstreaming is a no-go. Chromium for ppc64le is handled by @than, I guess he is using the same source of the ppc64le patchset provided by Raptor Engineering.

Regarding build infra, the Fedora infra team is doing some steps to migrate to Power10 systems, but don't know the details.

It sounds like there is hope for progress in F42, so I would like to delay this and reassess for F43.

webengine upstreaming via https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/qt6-qtwebengine/pull-request/9

Ive retargeted this proposal to F43 as per @yselkowitz comment above. Does this change need more time to be discussed and/or fleshed out before it can be voted on as approved or rejected?

This needs to be held back for a few months to see how things go, since the goal here is to see how things play out with F42 first.

@yselkowitz Would this be considered effectively withdrawn for the time being?

I would ask that this be paused until closer to F43 change deadlines, at which point we can reassess with the hope that, if the main issues have been resolved, it can ultimately be withdrawn.

We have time until June. Let's punt for now.

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