Gluon Developer Meeting #3/2018

2018/10/09, 20:00

Agenda

1. Review TODOs from last meeting

https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/wiki/Meeting-2018-02

2. Release planning

v2018.1.x bugfix release

1. issues
   • Load-Issue https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/1243

v2018.2

1. timetable
2. milestone
   • Gluon Outdoor mode (execution of gluon-reconfigure)
3. release goals
   • Inclusion of NBG6617 in the release

v2019.1

1. next branch for OpenWrt 19.01

3. miscelleaneous

1. Gluon @ 35c3

Protocol

Todos from previous meetings

Not achieved yet

• Browsable mailinglist archive
• Device definition tagging and metadata support
  • https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/1432
• better site.conf change documentation
  • maybe only reference newer sites, not every one
  • move sites to wiki, categorize them, reference from docs

Work in progress

• Pull Request Template
  • https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/1433
  • https://md.darmstadt.ccc.de/gluon-templates
  • No real progress since August
• Device Checklist
  • add to documentation so it can be seen even before opening a PR

Achieved

none

v2018.1.x bugfix release

• We should schedule a release although only minor changes happend. No pressing need though.

1. issues
   • Load-Issue https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/1243
     • Shall we close the issue?
     • Issue lies in the memory usage of squashfs (memory is regularly freed up and reused, leading to high load)
     • Neoraider tried to contact linux-mm, but their mail setup failed, will continue on linux-fsdevel
     • free memory calculation before v2018.2 is currently misleading, see https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/pull/1517
     • not a blocking issue, not fixed

v2018.2

Timetable

Release Goals

• Base: OpenWrt 18.06
• Babeld
  • src address selection issue https://github.com/jech/babeld/pull/18
    • should be merged downstream at Gluon
  • DNS resolution broken https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/1500
  • Will be broken for the next few releases, but should still be merged to get testing started
• Outdoor mode
  • gluon-reconfigure should be executed once when leaving config mode
    • currently happens in when the domain changes in config-mode-multidomain
    • should be run once in general, but only if changes require that
  • 5ghz radio goes down and stale when presumably no usable DFS channels are left

Milestone

https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/milestone/13

No real release blockers identified

• Bugs in babel not release critical

Deferred

• nftables
• ath10k-ct: reduce memory consumption #1535
  • will be brought up with other OpenWrt developers

Packages

• roamguide https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/packages/pull/185
  • instead of bash/cron a lua daemon is preferred in gluon for improved memory usage
  • should be improved to work with dualband devices
  • developer should be more responsive, but is busy with ddhcpd