Changes/ReintroduceMobilityPhoshImage

ReintroduceMobilityPhoshImage

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

Reintroduce Phosh image generation. Phosh is a Wayland shell for mobile devices based on GNOME. Mobility SIG has been maintaining Phosh and related packages and would like to restart making x86_64 and aarch64 images for mobile devices.

Owner

• Name: Tomi Lähteenmäki
• Email: <your email address so we can contact you, invite you to meetings, etc. Please provide your Bugzilla email address if it is different from your email in FAS>

Current status

• Targeted release: <VERSION>/ Fedora Linux <VERSION>
• Last updated: 2026-03-01
• [<link to devel-announce post will be added by Wrangler> Announced]
• [<will be assigned by the Wrangler> Discussion thread]
• FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

There's a number of x86_64 and aarch64 tablets and other mobile devices that could use a more mobile centric interface/desktop than traditional Fedora desktops/labs/spins. Having Fedora images for these devices will make it easier to install and use them. Having a image will also help remix efforts, allowing them to reuse userspace packages and metadata (kickstarts, etc) with a modified kernel.

Benefit to Fedora

These images will spread Fedora to mobile devices and bring more users into the Fedora community as well as showcasing upstream work to provide a 100% open source phone interface for devices once they are workable from vanilla kernels.

Scope

• Proposal owners: Update package groups and fedora-kiwi-descriptions to produce working aarch64 and x86_64 images.

• Other developers: Help test images and groups

• Release engineering: Review configuration, produce images, #Releng issue number

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

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

• Alignment with the Fedora Strategy:

Early Testing (Optional)

Do you require 'QA Blueprint' support? Y/N

How To Test

TODO: How to test

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

Phosh desktop images are again produced for x86_64 and aarch64.