Meeting 2019 01

Gluon Developer Meeting 01/2019 (2019/06/06)

Backlog

• Browsable mailinglist archive
  • Use gmane/spinnics for archive, neoraider will do that
• Device definition tagging and metadata support
  • People should discuss how tagging could look, then think about technical design
• better site.conf change documentation
  • We will have obsoletion messages starting v2019.1
  • We can now tag pull requests as requiring documentation
  • Release notes will be continued as is, errors will be fixed as usual
  • No imminent need to improve documentation to enable people to skip release documentation
• site.conf references:
  • maybe only reference newer sites, not every one
  • move sites to wiki, categorize them, reference from docs
  • has been done!
• nftables
  • deferred until there are changes in fw3 in OpenWrt
• No progress: Pull Request Template #1433
  • would still be nice, help appreciated

Topics

• next minor release 2018.2.2

  • resolve issue wrt tunneldigger bandwidth limiting: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/commit/d87c4b521b2e891155241c01b98a7ac90a8883b9
  • openwrt+packages+routing have been bumped by hexa in master
  • backport:
    • routing/packages/openwrt bumps
    • check other master branch commits
  • hexa, cherrypicking in the next few days, then a few days testing and release until mid June

• next major release 2019.1

  • based on OpenWrt 18.06 again, newer OpenWrt release is not yet in sight
    • bump to batadv v2019.2: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/pull/1733
  • yes:
    • tunneldigger watchdog: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/pull/1735
    • new legacy build flag
  • maybe:
    • batman-adv v14/v15 coexistance
      • possibly too large for smaller devices
    • cpe210v3 depending on feedback
    • gluon-hoodselector
  • not:
    • switch to new batadv UCI config format
      • questionable, because batman v14 would need netlink interface backport, so same batctl binary could be used for both

• Add gluon-hoodselector: VPN Mode #1393

  • Will be reopened with updated description matching the latest code
  • Could be merged in time for 2019.1, but still needs a review

• gluon-check-connection PR #1684

  • Feedback from @neoraider requested regarding the integration of these simple cron jobs
  • No further discussion, because author was not presented

• Add community package repository #1720

  • almost everyone has fear for too much work or packages that won't be maintained
  • people should submit their worthwhile packages to upstream gluon for proper review

• Add gluon-geolocator #1201

  • blocked because of missing encryption

• 32M/4M devices

  • feature gating: reduce feature set of lowend devices to keep them alive
    • waiting with this until really too big without reduction (can be done before individually by communities)
  • flag a target as legacy, requiring firmware builders to decide whether to build only sysupgrade or sysupgrade and factory images
    • GLUON_LEGACY={false,true,sysupgrade}
    • build fails without the new flag
      • set it to Z, don't build the tiny targets
      • set it to X, build them without factory images
      • set it to Y, build them with factory images
    • https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/1737
  • name this issue in the release notes

• guidelines for Gluon development #1437

  • help appreciated, no imminent requirement

• Add a CI pipeline for pull request #1680 See also: Automated-Testing

• docker buildenv

  • multiple variants can already be found online
  • hexa will submit a minimal docker buildenv into gluons root

• Funding for Gluon projects

  • Land Niedersachsen hat Fördergelder, die bisher nur für teure Hardware genutzt, wie wäre es stattdessen Entwicklungsarbeit davon zu fördern?
  • No interest from the Gluon maintainers

• ath79

  • ar71xx migrated towards a DTS based target called ath79
  • OpenWrt 19.0x will have both ar71xx and ath79, but the release after that will move to ath79 only
  • Device integration basically needs to happen from the ground up, very few parts from ar71xx can be reused on ath79

Postponed

• Extend modularity in gluon