FreedomBox/ProgressCalls/2016.0228

These are notes from the FreedomBox Progress Call on February 28th, 2016.

Agenda

0.8 release status (jvalleroy)
- Plinth v0.8.2 uploaded with fix for Chinese language option
- Includes Monkeysphere module for SSH host key verification
- Wifi autoconfiguration issues in 0.7 images.
  - FreedomBox/QualityAssurance
0.9 release planning (jvalleroy)
- Monkeysphere - patch to add HTTPS host key verification
  - Client-side SSH authentication - planned, not sure what release
  - OpenID Connect - planned
- Plan to build images
- Needed features:
  - Mark setup complete for essential modules?
- String freeze - 1 week for translation updates
  - About 1 week from today.
- Look at using Debian testing for image builds.
Updating the medium-term roadmap (jvalleroy)
- 0.10
  - More monkeysphere features
  - Diaspora
- Soon?
  - Plinth Dashboard
- Polish-focused release
- Debian Stretch freeze in November
  - Cleanup freedombox-setup, move setup scripts into Plinth for proper upgrades
  - Package freedom-maker
  - More robust setup
    - Automatically configure plugged-in network interfaces
Release schedule: (sunil)
- Regular releases, 6-8 weeks, set timeline
  - More point releases
- How often to rebuild images?
  - Decide for each release?
  - Pick subset of images to fully test.
  - Weekly image builds, separate from release schedule
Demo site
- Host on VPS