Meeting notes - 24th January 2023 virtual meeting

Participants: Hauke, Paul, lach1012, pepe2k, ynezz, Rafal, wigyori, lynxis, Daniel, Adrian

1. Plan to branch off end of March, lets see how it will work.
2. Kernel 5.15 status: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/10672
   1. update the list in the ticket if there are problems
   2. Use CONFIG_TESTING_KERNEL=y to build testing kernel if 5.15 is not default.
   3. ramips: Make 5.15 default?
      1. https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/11255 - kernel panic on /sys/kernel/debug/ppe0/entries read fixed but several other issues reported in this PR, unclear if all are fixed
   4. ath25: 32MB of RAM = drop it?
      1. [ath25: add 5.15 testing kernel](https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/10837)
      2. [ath25: mark as source-only](https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/patch/20230116121856.59740-1-robimarko@gmail.com/)
      3. if noone can test this target just drop it
      4. Paul will make it source-only and add it to the overview issue
3. Toolchain upgrade: done
4. OpenSSL 3.0 update?
   1. OpenSSL 1.1.1 is EoL 2023-09-11
   2. OpenSSL 3.0 is EoL 2026-09-07
   3. Hauke will send a mail and ask if someone is wokring on this
5. The RISC-V target (sifiveu) should get merged
6. mbedtls / wolfssl / openssl
   1. Maybe use hostapd + mbedtls as default instead of hostapd + wolfssl or make it depend on flash size
   2. Did someone do perfomance tests?
   3. Daniel will look into it and create a pull request

• Event Date: [2023-05-08 Mon] to [2023-05-14 Sun]
• Location: Barcelona
• https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV15
• should have enought space to locate us in addition with ~10 people
• maybe one or tow days before or after battlemesh
• Daniel, Lynxis, Rafal, ynezz, pepe2k and Hauke are interested

• http://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2022-November/039803.html sums it all
• ability to CI test and ideally merge contributions directly from the platform of choice
• OpenWrt project mirrors on GitLab.com stopped working roughly a month ago
  • no compile/test/fuzz feedback on a bunch of C base core projects (libubox, uci, ubus etc.)
• mirror all reposetories from git.openwrt.org to github
• migrate CI stuff from gitlab to github
• see what else we want to do later

• people complained that ASU is also in their custom images where ASU does not work
• remove it from the LucI dependencies and instead add it to release builds directly
• How do we prevent security problems in ASU?
  • if someone has controll over the ASU server the attacker could create malicious images
    • have multiple servers and let the client request the image from multiple services

• It is running on lynxis jenkins server
• maybe migrate to github action
• lynxis will share his jenkins script
• ynezz is working on a github action for coverity