Meeting notes - 13. July 2020 virtual meeting

Date: 13. July 2020

• ramips (mt7620, rtXXXX): kernel gets too big?
• bcm47xx/bcm53xx still testing-support for 5.4

• jow posted patches
• QCA 8k switch does not support VLAN
• if there are problems or VLAN is not supported we stay at swconfig
• swconfig → DSA config migrations
  • no migration support for now
    • The default switch config should be applied old config should be available
  • https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/list/?series=188680
• Luci does not support DSA VLAN configuration yet
• newer ramips boards, marvell boards affected, [extend list].

• wolfssl gives WPA3 support + TLS for web
• hostapd does not support mbedtls

• this is a big endian ARM target
• is already removed: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/28fd4ac512ec1c08a79ac7a434b2def3cc82f1d5

• binutils update
  • possible.
  • Are there any bugs with the current version? No.
• GCC update
  • too risky
• musl 1.2
  • there are blockers, MIPS not working?
  • probably after the branch

• should be fixed also in 19.07, just has to be activated in build bot
  • https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/3204 ([19.07]Backport latest JSON patches)

• Adding non coders as members
• Is this about membership and voting rights or code contributions?
• We do not have a policy for contributing code from insiders only for outsiders
• Having CI and binary builds also for the staging trees would improve things
• https://openwrt.org/meetings/hamburg2019/start#redefine_roles_and_rules

• Add extra table for “inactive members” on the website
• Rule 4. Committers being unreachable for three months in a row shall get their commit and voting rights revoked in order to retain the ability to do majority votes among the remaining active committers.
• No conclusion, will prepare better in next meeting and continue.

• Auto close or reject after some timeout?
  • http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2019-October/025315.html
• Add a tag in github for the stages
  • patchwork does not support labels
• probably some changes to the infrastructure after the SFC migration

• Is it too simple?
  • People could be unaware of two variants for one device (e.g. ath79/ar71xx)
  • Power users can browse the directories
• Rafał will look at patches
• see above for JSON metadata, esp. [[http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/patch/20200630232801.2533530-1-mail@aparcar.org/|this patch] needs to be merged. Paul is currently preparing a patchset for 19.07

• https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs
• multiple people want to take part

• Do we want to do this again?
• When do we want to do this again? In 2 months?
  • Next meeting in a month
  • probably meetings every months or more often when we do a release
  • Hauke creates a poll for the date and time in about 4 weeks