OpenWrt Meeting April 2023

Participants:

• Paul
• wigyori
• Ansuel
• Rafal
• blocktrron

• Whats missing?
  • 2 target to move to 5.15
    • lantiq (problems being discussed on github, hauke mentioned that)
      • ping hauke once more or drop it, too
      • problem with the gswip switch and failed to add fdb
      • https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/12064
    • omap (bump to 5.15 and see what happen in RC)
      • make it source-only (driver rewrite needed related to VLAN)
    • https://forum.openwrt.org/t/wanted-testers-for-kirkwood-omap-and-tegra-targets-on-linux-5-15/156854
    • Option to add both targets if ready within RC stage

• The bug fixed here is affecting many people: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commitdiff;h=aad34818b50029e07ed9221ae46f9770d6e29785
• Otehr problems?
• 21.02 changes: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/openwrt-21.02
• 22.03 changes: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/openwrt-22.03
• create two more point releases, last one for 21.02.x
• Created by Hauke

• Who are currently active admins
  • Paul tries to find out
• Very slow uploads from osuosl.org
• Patchset from F00b4r0 unifies Buildmasters

• Nice person to interact with
• Active in OpenWrt/Freifunk communities
• Lot of maintainance work
  • https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commits?author=PolynomialDivision

• Should we enable them for new release?
  • https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/12453
  • https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/12452
  • https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/12448
  • https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/12454
  • bind them to a menuconfig config to disable them (for regression testing?)
• Size compare? (single feature don’t add size but sum of them might be problematic)
  • They should not be a problem since we target bigger flash
  • There is an idea to introduce big-flash target

• The API key is still not added. Simple change to do so why delay it?
• Key is already added
• Ansuel takes care of final review and merge

• Progress?
  • Will happen after the branch