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 * Dropping both armel targets, Dreamplug and Raspberry Pi 1 (Danny)
   * Is it time to stop supporting these models?
   * Read the comments here: https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedom-maker/issues/150
   * This does NOT apply to Raspberry Pi 2.
   * Reasons to drop:
     * Performance
     * Neither model gets proper kernel updates
     * Gets us closer to dropping all non-free software from !FreedomBox
   * We need an infrastructure to communicate with users to explain that there will be no support for their devices anymore.
     * Whenever plinth is updated, we can display release notes.
     * We can write in the next release notes that we have dropped these two targets
   * FBF will share the news
     * Encourage users to move on to other hardware or use Debian images on these devices instead
   * Impact:
     * people who already have installed !FreedomBox on these devices are not affected.
     * People who have not installed !FreedomBox on these devices cannot install latest images.
   * Timeline:
     * Test freedombox backups feature for all apps and make sure that it works.
     * Once we know that backups works, we can update the wikipage with how-to instructions and make the announcement.
     * Goal is to finish this process by Friday, December 14
 * Pending tasks for Hardware Kits release + Cloud images launch
   * Buster images must have backports
     * Buster doesn't have backports yet
       * Must be added after they are released or kept disabled for now
     * Setting apt pin priority of plinth and other packages
       * Show "status" to user e.g. stable/stable+backports/devel ?
   * Testing of Lime 2 rev. G2 images
     * We have to document to our users that the newest revision doesn't work
   * Website updates
     * cloud page
     * buy page
 * Infrastructure
   * Demo server
   * Discourse instance
 * !FreedomBox user personae
   * An earlier attempt - https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/plinth/snippets/248
   * Writing a risk assessment for new users to explain the risks of each major use case.
   * "user personae", of which activist/protestor is one user persona
   * This is more of a design document to help the developers understand the needs of their users, not a marketing document.
 * NILFS2 https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/plinth/issues/1433
   * alternative to Btrfs
   * snapshots on every write
 * State of remote sshfs backups (fonfon) https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/plinth/merge_requests/1377
 * https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/plinth/issues/844 - onionshare: should it be run as a daemon? can it?
 * state of freedombox.org re-launch https://42.meup.org/OWnNHKtN/export.png (work in progress – NOT finished at all)
 * state of freedomboxfoundation.org - text was re-written, more changes coming soon

Hack call: 14:00 UTC

  • Dropping both armel targets, Dreamplug and Raspberry Pi 1 (Danny)
    • Is it time to stop supporting these models?
    • Read the comments here: https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedom-maker/issues/150

    • This does NOT apply to Raspberry Pi 2.
    • Reasons to drop:
      • Performance
      • Neither model gets proper kernel updates
      • Gets us closer to dropping all non-free software from FreedomBox

    • We need an infrastructure to communicate with users to explain that there will be no support for their devices anymore.
      • Whenever plinth is updated, we can display release notes.
      • We can write in the next release notes that we have dropped these two targets
    • FBF will share the news
      • Encourage users to move on to other hardware or use Debian images on these devices instead
    • Impact:
      • people who already have installed FreedomBox on these devices are not affected.

      • People who have not installed FreedomBox on these devices cannot install latest images.

    • Timeline:
      • Test freedombox backups feature for all apps and make sure that it works.
      • Once we know that backups works, we can update the wikipage with how-to instructions and make the announcement.
      • Goal is to finish this process by Friday, December 14
  • Pending tasks for Hardware Kits release + Cloud images launch
    • Buster images must have backports
      • Buster doesn't have backports yet
        • Must be added after they are released or kept disabled for now
      • Setting apt pin priority of plinth and other packages
        • Show "status" to user e.g. stable/stable+backports/devel ?
    • Testing of Lime 2 rev. G2 images
      • We have to document to our users that the newest revision doesn't work
    • Website updates
      • cloud page
      • buy page
  • Infrastructure
    • Demo server
    • Discourse instance
  • FreedomBox user personae

    • An earlier attempt - https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/plinth/snippets/248

    • Writing a risk assessment for new users to explain the risks of each major use case.
    • "user personae", of which activist/protestor is one user persona
    • This is more of a design document to help the developers understand the needs of their users, not a marketing document.
  • NILFS2 https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/plinth/issues/1433

    • alternative to Btrfs
    • snapshots on every write
  • State of remote sshfs backups (fonfon) https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/plinth/merge_requests/1377

  • https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/plinth/issues/844 - onionshare: should it be run as a daemon? can it?

  • state of freedombox.org re-launch https://42.meup.org/OWnNHKtN/export.png (work in progress – NOT finished at all)

  • state of freedomboxfoundation.org - text was re-written, more changes coming soon