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These are the notes from the December 28th, 2014 call, the original notes are available.

Agenda

Issue Tracker TODO Move

Progress on moving TODOs to issue tracker: complete!

0.3 Blockers

When Sunil pushes a new Plinth version, 0.3 is ready.

• Complete, aside from merging James's pull request (plinth 0.4.5 / 0.5; fbx-setup 0.2).
• btrfs root file system doesn't boot on raspberry pi.

0.3 Changes

• plinth ui redesign
• plinth package kit integration: allows progress bar during installation, redirection to installed package.
• can run Tor intermediary node / hidden service publishing apache's root.
• conflicting reports for jwchat over .onion:
  • jwchat works over .onion address for local communication?
  • jwchat doesn't work over .onion address for s2s communication without configuration?

1.0 Blockers

• Identify 1.0 (developer-release) blockers:
  • markus and sunil discussed: people don't understand the consumer-grade goals, and we're bad about telling people how to get it.
  • why do we have reservations about distributing the 100-developer boxes? that's a good task list for 1.0.
  • we need to release something that people can use
  • updates:
    • how does the update process work?
    • how do we fix broken updates/upgrades?
    • will a clean upgrade path be too burdensome? will developers accept loading new images?
    • Bdale thinks forcing a reinstall at 1.0 is ok, but after that should try to avoid.
    • Using file system snapshots might help handling broken updates. similar to how OLPC handle it, by upgrading to one new image keep the old intact and have a mechanism to revert to the old working version. btrfs snapshots might help here.

Contribute Page

We need a general "Contribute" wiki page telling people how to pull projects, put them together, and submit changes. Should also detail expected code style and expected test granularity/coverage.

Dashboard Progress

• Progress of Dashboard regarding augeas/python3-configobj: waiting for augeas-lens to land in Debian proper. pull request merged 2 months later, but the new release isn't packaged.
  • doesn't have lenses for new packages like pagekite
  • consider using python3-configobj
    • are we missing anything? doesn't seem so.
    • seems easier than augeas, and doesn't require a new augeas release.
    • only supports ini-style files with optional sections, which isn't all of the config files.
  • Would be useful to check the etckeeper output for /etc/ to see which files we are modifying, and which format they are using.

Cubietruck Support

Markus working on it outside of 0.3.

• less open than olinuxino boards?
• wifi driver is the non-free bit (which chip do they use?)
• how do we fight our only-for-(hardware X) image?

Plinth Landing Page

Should we use the Plinth service directory as a front-page?

• nick: +1
• pere: +0: it should be the place where I can communicate with other people (without sub-navigation?).
• jvalleroy: +1, just need to improve the plinth front page

Disable non-free

Non-free repository is enabled on all hardware. That's bad.

• needed only for DP wifi
• disable everywhere else
• should be enabled when hardware that requires it is plugged in. See isenkram package for a way to do that. (pere wrote it)

Actions

• Everybody: what are our concerns about distributing boxes? put on mailing list. (1.0 task list)
  • Nick: getting security review of the 1.0 code written specifically for fbx (the external services at least).
  • Pere: dangerous to discribute boxes with known username/password (fbx/frdm).
• Everybody: create a general contribute-to-the-project-as-a-whole page.
• Everybody: think about places we can meet up and give talks: fosdem, libreplanet, etc.
• Sunil/Markus: update wiki to describe that the box is a consumer device
• Pere: should we disable btrfs for raspberry pi for the 0.3 release? - pere: yes, to get rpi working again.

• Sunil: publish images regularly (daily / weekly) after plinth 0.3 published -> ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/pub/freedombox/ (pere fixes access, need username and ssh key)

• Fonfon: dashboard progress, try using configobj instead of augeas (unless there's a release in the meantime)

• Marc: apache/gpg client <--> server login

• Nick: work on ldap-pgp-fbuddy integration
• Nick: remove non-free from non-DP in FM by default.

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