Meeting notes - 19th October 2021 virtual meeting

Date: 19th October 2021

Participants: Daniel, Paul, lach1012, rsalvaterra, pepe2k, Adrian, Rafał, stintel, Hauke

• Core updates done:
  • musl 1.2.2
  • binutils 2.37
  • GCC 11.2
    • something is not booting up after the GCC 11.2 update
    • https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/da5bb885e17cf77caea70adcf473f1fb95448553
• Kernel 5.10
  • Overall good progress since last meeting, 15 of 39 targets now run 5.10
  • Missing progress:
    • bcm47xx
      • Hauke will have a look at it
      • Rafał will also look at it too (this week)
    • bcm4908
      • Rafał will do this this week
    • pistachio
      • Hauke will have a look at it
• Firewall4
  • Currently collected affected packages and asking for testing
  • Open PR on GitHub https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4642
  • upnp currently depends on hard coded iptables calls (Daniel will give nftables-wrapper a shot)
  • ipset for bann ip is missing (Paul will contact the maintainer)
  • The iptables over nftables user space wrapper could solve some of these scenarios
  • size comparison between iptables and nftables based system (Paul will check)
  • upstream works on allowing to attach eBPF to an nftables rule
• Split mvebu 32 bit?
  • Do performance benchmark (wireguard, openssl speed, cryptsetup benchmark, NAT?)
  • Arm Neon support could be activated, could improve wireguard performance, 32 vs. 16 register FPU
  • Does the kernel already do automatic detection? Would only user space be affected like ffmpeg.
  • The packages for both versions are already building for other targets
  • Old discussion: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/3079
• mac80211 update to kernel 5.15 base
  • Hauke will send patches for testing soon
• update wireless regulatory database
  • currently we do not support any Wifi 6E (6GHz) devices. Intel client works.

• Instance running at https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org/
• Slowly get some traction, worked stable since the last meeting

• Next meeting should have an ics event.
• Paul will create one next time
• we want to have this meeting once a month
• suggested was to have it every 30 days to rotate the day
• Paul will do a new poll for November in about 4 to 5 weeks

• Currently broken
• Switch to same compression as ImageBuilder/SDK
• Change compression format to tar.xz

• Add by default?
• You can connect video over USB or SPI to mostly every device
• Daniel just tried it, but will probably not maintain Wayland forever
  • Just to show that it is working
• Do not build it every time, for example only every 10th build

• Should be done to fix Let's Encrypt
  • Jow fixed the update servers, this is working. The rest of the Internet still causes problems
• Hauke will do a point release in the next few days
  • Will do it together with Paul

• currently this meeting is very focused on core stuff, the focus could shift
• option: add package maintainers 1 hour later

• We think currently we need the absolute majority of all members to add a new member
• Maybe add a quorum
• Probably a time frame how long the vote is open (~3 weeks)
• Keep the new member vote still separate form other votes
• Adrian will propose a change to the rules on the mailing list and we can vote on this

• Members can voluntarily change to inactive member status
• inactive members do not have voting rights
• If an inactive member wants to get active again they can change the status without a vote
• Daniel will propose this on the mailing list

• Write a blog?
  • specific area in the forum?
• Some people are interested to write something
• Paul will setup a blog