OpenWrt Meeting April 2025
* OpenWrt summit / Battlemesh
- battlemesh: https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV17
- 10. June - 16. June 2025 (OpenWrt 13 June - 15. June)
- Sundhausen, Thüringen, Germany (on the country side)
- List of participants: https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV17/Participants
- Wireless community weekend (WCW)
- 29. Mai - 1. June 2025
- Berlin, Germany
- List of participants: https://wiki.freifunk.net/Wireless_Community_Weekend_2025:Participants
* OpenWrt workshop weekend like in Hamburg in 2018?
- Lynxis would organize and will create poll who is interested
* Discuss about private mailing list proposal (Ansuel)
- The vote ended and was rejected
- Maybe do it for security problems only and for the meeting invites
- Freescout has about 6 spam mails per day, we should maybe improve that
- Daniel and lynxis will improve the spam filter
- Paul will create vote about security only private mailing list
- Maybe do it in the forum?
- you can answer over mail to the forum, but not create new topics
- A group can be designated to be able to create topics within a specified category.
* Remembering Dave Täht
- Discuss the possibility of dedicating the next stable release to his memory
- It was suggested a more simple and less direct “25.xx Dave's Guitar Release” (I hear he loved guitar and played a lot)
- Putting a reference either in Version number or MOTD sounds good to me (David)
- Best is probably to create a patch, send it to the mailing list and see the discussion
* Infra committee (stintel)
- OpenWrt infra is severely under-maintained
- git-01: 14:35:07 up 514 days, 18:39, 2 users, load average: 1.16, 1.51, 2.10
- util-01: 14:35:25 up 1294 days, 19:58, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
- wiki-03: 18:36:18 up 478 days, 3:33, 1 user, load average: 6.63, 6.50, 6.49
- recurring issues with overloaded servers
- random people applying band-aids when issues arise and they have time to look
- Onboard others?
- We had such a committee some years ago already
- Paul will write a mail to create a new group
* new members: how can we avoid what happened to the XZ project with “Jia Tan”
- We can probably not prevent it, but hopefully notice it
- We have different attack vectors
* https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-adm/2024-August/002620.html
- Paul will write an email
* Freescout backlog
- Lynxis goes through it
* New target arch A73 (Ansuel)
- Required at least 3-4% difference with benchmark results on real world *userland* scenario.
* Remove x86/generic, (Hauke)
- We support x86 32 bit with 3 targets (legacy (pentium mmx), generic (pentium 4), geode (pentium mmx))
- One less target and one less package build
- There are some boards with VIA x86 CPUs supported by the legacy target
- Hauke will send a mail to the mailing list to ask if anyone uses it
* 6.12 PRs - timeline? now, soon, later?
- Probably tomorrow(Ansuel)
- Generic + x64: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16547
- sifive/mxs/sunxi - prepped, waiting for final 6.12 merge