[Openvpn-devel] Summary of the IRC meeting / sprint (29th Sep 2011)

[Samuli S. <sa...@op...>]

Hi,

Here's the summary of the previous IRC meeting / sprint.

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COMMUNITY MEETING

Place: #openvpn-devel on irc.freenode.net
Date: Thursday 29th Sep 2011
Time: 18:00 UTC

Planned meeting topics for this meeting were on this page:

<https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Topics-2011-09-29>

Next meeting will be announced in advance, but will probably be on the same
weekday and at the same time. Your local meeting time is easy to check
from services such as

<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock>

or with

$ date -u


SUMMARY

andj, cron2, dguerri, jamesyonan, mattock, scifiCinereller and SviMik
participated in
this meeting.

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Discussed "Client's routes ageing timer" patch from dguerri:

<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/4994>

An earlier version of this patch was ACKed by dazo in previous meeting,
on the condition that minor changes are made. Those changes are
implemented in this patch, which was subsequently given an ACK by cron2
and andj.

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Discussed status of our buildbot environment / buildslaves:

<https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/SettingUpBuildslave#Listofexistingbuildslaves>

Cron2 informed us that his company (space.net) could offer several
buildslaves (e.g. various FreeBSD flavours) for the project, with cron2
managing them. However, some form of acknowledgement would be required.
Agreed that "Sponsors" page on the community wiki would suffice.
Jamesyonan will discuss this offer with others in OpenVPN Tech and
report back.

Mattock said that he plans to have connectivity tests on buildslave up
again by 2.3 alpha release (in 2-3 weeks).

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Discussed the "Segfault in PF" bug:

<https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/163>

More information about the setup that trigger bug this is available here:

<http://backreference.org/2010/06/18/openvpns-built-in-packet-filter>

Andj and jamesyonan came up with a patch, which in SviMik's tests fixed
the bug.

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Discussed Eike's question regarding openvpn-status.log:

<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.user/32525>

Jamesyonan said that "Bytes Received, Bytes Sent" refers to bytes sent
over the tunnel socket. So janjust's analysis (on ml) was correct.

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Discussed the ooshirts.com T-shirt order. Agreed that it's best if
mattock creates a few designs for review first.

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Reviewed andj's PolarSSL "Misc cleanup" patches. Their status before and
after the meeting:

<https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/PolarSSLintegration?version=61#Misccleanup>
<https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/PolarSSLintegration?version=65#Misccleanup>

Also discussed handling of isolated PolarSSL patches that don't modify
existing files. Agreed that they don't necessarily need a thorough
review _right now_, as OpenSSL will still be used by default. So,
initially, PolarSSL code would be in the "use at your own risk"
category. More careful review could come later, after the code is
already in Git.

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Full chatlog as an attachment

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Samuli Seppänen
Community Manager
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc

irc freenode net: mattock