Future of Chaos Calmer

[David Lang]

On Fri, 6 May 2016, Vittorio G (VittGam) wrote:

> 
> On 05/05/2016 21:30:56 CEST, David Lang wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 May 2016, Vittorio G (VittGam) wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'd like to know if there are any plans for Chaos Calmer?
>>> 
>>> Will it become mantained by LEDE?
>> 
>> almost certinly not. But LEDE will create their own release to replace it.
>
> Okay, it would be great to have a LEDE release derived by the CC codebase, 
> too.
>
>> remember that part of maintaining a release is making updates to it 
>> available.
>> 
>> OpenWRT updates against *openwrt.org servers, so LEDE is not going to be 
>> able to do anything there.
>> 
>> David Lang
>> 
>>> Trunk introduces important changes, for example the switch from uClibc to
>>> musl, so until everything's polished and ready for release I'd rather not
>>> use trunk on "production" devices, like the main home modem/router or all
>>> the antennas of a wireless community that are mounted on the roofs...
>> 
>> shrug, you need to do testing anyway. I ran 120 APs from Trunk at the Scale 
>> conference in January and they worked well.
>
> Well, of course I would never flash deployed antennas with trunk without
> testing; but sometimes trunk reserves strange surprises that may not be
> caught even while testing... As an extreme example, some years ago I had
> some APs flashed with a supposedly "stable" revision of AA (when it still
> was the trunk). After some time, when trying to update to BB, I saw that
> some of the routers were rebooting in the middle of flashing, because the
> watchdog process wasn't terminated properly, so the hardware watchdog
> remained active and triggered in the middle of the upgrade.

True, but I've run into problems with releases having subtle problems that don't 
show up in testing too.

you pick something and take your chances :-)

and you have a plan for when, not if, something fails on you.

David Lang