OpenWrt virtual meeting (July 2020) meeting notes

[Paul Spooren]

Hi,

On 26.07.20 04:50, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> * Include SSL lib
> ** wolfssl gives WPA3 support + TLS for web
> ** hostapd does not support mbedtls
Cool!
> * image Json metadata is needed by downstream projects
> ** should be fixed also in 19.07, just has to be activated in build bot
> *** https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/3204 ([19.07]Backport latest
> JSON patches)
This is already merged.
> # Adding new members
> * Adding non coders as members
> * Is this about membership and voting rights or code contributions?
> * We do not have a policy for contributing code from insiders only for
> outsiders
> * Having CI and binary builds also for the staging trees would improve
> things
Please consider looking into this PR, doing exactly this for GitHub pull 
requests.

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/3211

I'm currently building the same in via a GitLab CI (much slower free 
workers currently) with Patchwork integration, so it's not about merging 
the PR but determine required features/tests.

> # How to improve reviewing and accepting all the open pull requests /
> patches?
> * Auto close or reject after some timeout?
> **
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2019-October/025315.html
> * Add a tag in github for the stages
> ** patchwork does not support labels
> * probably some changes to the infrastructure after the SFC migration
Could you elaborate on this please?
> # firmware selector?
> * Is it too simple?
> ** People could be unaware of two variants for one device (e.g.
> ath79/ar71xx)
> ** Power users can browser the directories
> * Rafał will look at patches
Which patches?
> * see above for JSON metadata, esp.
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/patch/20200630232801.2533530-1-mail@aparcar.org/
> needs to be merged. Paul is currently preparing a patchset for 19.07
The patchset is already prepared and merged. Only the buildbot 
activation is missing.
> # Summer of Documents
> * https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs
> * multiple people want to take part