Meeting 2022 06

Gluon Meetup 2022-06

13.12.2022 - 20:00 CEST - mumble.freifunk.net

Notes from Last Meetup: Meeting-2022-05

Attendees

• [👤 Aiyion]
• [👤 blocktrron] joined 20:16
• [👤 gabor] joined 20:35
• [👤 goligo]
• [👤 Klaus_Dieter]
• [👤 lemoer]
• [👤 mkg20001]
• [👤 NeoRaider]
• [👤 tomh]

Topics

• [👤 lemoer] RoadMap
• [👤 Klaus_Dieter] wireguard-vpn + vxlan
• [👤 Klaus_Dieter] ddhcpd maintenance
• [👤 mkg20001] bugfix gluon-web-model
• [👤 mkg20001] olsr2: how to best continue / what is wanted
• [👤 Aiyion] gluon-mesh-vpn-key-translate
• [👤 Aiyion] Gluon 2022.2
• [👤 Aiyion] [👤 rotanid]s topic -- contribution culture
• [👤 Aiyion] MLD wakeupcall feature

RoadMap

Following points from the roadmap are achieved:

• Switch to OpenWrt 22.03 (#2426 - [👤 neoraider])
• ar71xx -> ath79 Migration (#2413 - [👤 aiyion], all)

Further Changes:

• Babel is now actively being worked on again.

wireguard-vpn + vxlan

• For "Layer 3-Gluon", the vxlan layer is not necessary and should be avoided.
• How do we alter the current wireguard implementation (in gluon) in order to allow wireguard without vxlan.
• Gluon expects an interface "mesh-vpn" in a lot of cases.
  • Especially it is also in batman-adv not easy to

ddhcpd maintenance

• It was introduced for babel in gluon.
• We also find it interesting in general for gluon.
• [👤 Sargon] is not active anymore.
• Idea:
  • Friendly Fork des ddhcpd in der freifunk-gluon org.
  • Offene PRs anschauen.
• Idea will be followed. [👤 Klaus_Dieter] is doing it.
• The package is also in the community-packages.
  • The ddhcpd package can be moved to the gluon package then.

bugfix gluon-web-model

• https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/pull/2723
• Looks good. Mergen.

olsr2: how to best continue / what is wanted

• What to do with problems, where the mesh network in Graz has differences to what gluon supports, but gluon doesn't want to support it?
• Mesh without vxlan?
  • We do not want to support disabling vxlan for mesh-on-lan/-wan.
    • Would add complexity.
    • Does not add additional value.
  • Maybe we could add an interface role "mesh-without-vxlan", which could be set manually.
• Make OSLRv1/OLSRv2 work with IPv4?
  • We first want to have only OLSRv2 support in gluon and see from there.
  • (This would probably require a large patch for graz.)

gluon-mesh-vpn-key-translate

• gluon-mesh-vpn-key-translate.c could be more generic.

gluon v2022.2?

• Is there anything significantly new?
• Maybe release v2022.1.2 instead?

Contribution Culture in Gluon

• Often it takes long to get a good review.
• Good reviews often only come from [👤 NeoRaider]. But this can take long.
• The maintainers could look through issues/PRs more often and "remove the garbage" more efficiently
  • Has happend more often now