OpenWrt Meeting April 2025

[Hauke Mehrtens]

Hi,

Here are the meting notes from our last meeting:
https://openwrt.org/meetings/20250429


  * 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
      * 
https://forum.freifunk.net/t/wireless-community-weekend-vom-30-5-1-6-2025-in-berlin/24351
      * 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.
    * 
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/93173aee96e7496f3ff158046d3d19cd42c2e031#r151776374
  * Remove x86/generic, (Hauke)
    * See https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/14944
    * 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)
    * Bcm27xx: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/17147
    * Generic + x64: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16547
    * Uml: https://github.com/chunkeey/openwrt/tree/uml-6_12
    * sifive/mxs/sunxi - prepped, waiting for final 6.12 merge