Include the earlyoom package in Fedora Workstation (and possibly other products if they choose to opt-in); and enable its systemd unit earlyoom.service by default for both new installations and upgrades.
earlyoom.service
a. Modify https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/blob/master/f/comps-f32.xml.in to include earlyoom package for Workstation. b. Modify https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-release/blob/master/f/80-workstation.preset to include:
# enable earlyoom by default on workstation enable earlyoom.service
Proposal https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnableEarlyoom
When do you need this? (YYYY/MM/DD) 2020-02-11
When is this no longer needed or useful? (YYYY/MM/DD) 2020-02-12
If we cannot complete your request, what is the impact? Feature benefit delayed until Fedora 33.
@chrismurphy Thanks for filing the ticket. RelEng acknowledges the change and we will reviews the changes to fedora-comps and fedora-release repos.
Metadata Update from @mohanboddu: - Issue tagged with: change-ack, changes, f32
Approvals: fesco#2320 and fedora-workstation#119
PRs https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/pull-request/452 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-release/pull-request/105
This has been fixed in F32.
Metadata Update from @syeghiay: - Issue close_status updated to: Fixed - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)