Gluon Meetup 2025-02

15.04.2025 - 20:00 CEST - mumble.freifunk.net

Notes from Last Meetup: Meeting-2025-01

Attendees

• [ :bust_in_silhouette: aiyion ] until 20:55
• [ :bust_in_silhouette: djfe ]
• [ :bust_in_silhouette: maurerle ]
• [ :bust_in_silhouette: tom ]
• [ :bust_in_silhouette: T_X ]
• [ :bust_in_silhouette: neocturne ]
• [ :bust_in_silhouette: grische ]
• [ :bust_in_silhouette: rotanid ] since 20:25

Topics

Please always note your name next to your topic

• [ :bust_in_silhouette: neocturne ] Release planning: Which open issues/PRs need to be resolved/merged for the release, and who can take care of them
  • https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/milestone/24
• [ :bust_in_silhouette: djfe ] discuss dropping support for ssh rsa host keys
  • [ :bust_in_silhouette: tom ] It was only brought up with regards to RSA host keys. Shouldn't have much user impact.
  • [ :bust_in_silhouette: neocturne ] Also: is urngd still doing anything useful?
  • https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/2182
  • Result:
    • RSA host keys should not be generated by default anymore
    • urngd usefulness to be discussed with upstream
• [ :bust_in_silhouette: aiyion ] authorized ssh fingerprints respondd
  • possibly in gluon-authorized-keys
  • aiyion muss weg, daher Punkt vertagt
• [ :bust_in_silhouette: neocturne ] Consolidation of mt76 wifi issue tickets? Older issues:
  • https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/3481
  • https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/3154 (closed during the meeting)
  • https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/3305
  • https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/3440
  • https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/2822 (same as 3154, closed)
  • Are these still relevant? Are some of these related?
    • some issues are closed in the meeting, the deafness is still unclear and mt7915 on filogic still does have issues (3305)
• [ :bust_in_silhouette: neocturne ] Discussion of next steps for WIP PRs (would be helpful if the authors can attend the meetup)
  • Triband radio support: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/pull/3357 (maurerle)
    • New version has been pushed, will be reviewed - should be tested
  • Per-interface hop penalty: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/pull/3454 (maurerle)
    • Next steps have been clarified
    • Will be added to gluon_mesh and gluon_wired such as network.mesh_radio0
  • nftables: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/pull/2783 (mkg20001)
    • Will be continued by neocturne
  • Network-triggered setup-mode: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/pull/2778 (blocktrron)
    • Discussion postponed as the author didn't attend the meeting
  • Coding style fixes: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/packages/pull/277 (T-X; needs detail decision)
    • T-X will look into editorconfig configuration
  • Autoupdater progress display: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/packages/pull/274 (neocturne; needs testing)
    • should be tested to verify that it fixes the initial issue
  • gluon-mesh-vpn-wireguard cleanup: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/pull/3457 (neocturne; needs testing)
    • will be tested by maurerle (FFAC), as they are using this package
  • Way too many brmldproxy PRs: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/community-packages/pull/151#issuecomment-2795485056 (T-X)
    • will be added to the main repo on the long run - current PR is in the community-packages repo and will be continued there - and merged on the main repository
• we talked about various issues and pull requests in the gluon-packages repository and closed some of them due to various reasons