2015-06-29 – community wiki

# Basic info

- **Time:** Monday 29th Jun 2015, 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC)
- **Place:** #openvpn-devel channel on Freenode IRC network
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# Topics

1. **Status of OpenVPN 2.4**
   - Assign tickets to "alpha 2.4", "beta 2.4", "RC 2.4" and 2.4.0
2. **Replacing openvpnserv.exe with [NSSM](http://nssm.cc)**
   - Proof of concept is ready and works
     - If OpenVPN dies, NSSM restarts it immediately
     - NSSM installs itself as a Windows system service, meaning that the setup survives a reboot
     - Just bundling nssm.exe is adequate as-is for the corporate use-case
   - NSSM configuration GUI / command-line is too difficult for generic end users
     - All nitty gritty details have to be configured manually for every connection after install
   - NSSM configuration has to be made more automatic
     - Writing a full-fledged application (e.g. C# + Winforms) would be an overkill
     - A [HTML application](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692768.aspx) (.hta) running in a browser is probably the least bad solution
       - Due to the need for privileged operations the browser needs to be Internet Explorer
       - The code itself will be Javascript that runs privileged operation in Windows Scripting Host (WSH) and parses the results
     - More discussion in Samuli's [mailing list monologue](http://sourceforge.net/p/openvpn/mailman/message/34237056/)
3. **SourceForge's modifications of project files**
   - Sourceforge has been silently adding adware to project installers, thus betraying the trust of the project's using their service
   - Many projects have already left SourceForge
     - Statements from [Notepad++](https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-leaves-sf.html) and [Gimp](https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-May/msg00144.html)
     - Should we follow suit?
4. **Windows 8.1 DNS registration issues**
   - [Issue with register-dns in Windows 8.1](ticket:399)
   - [ipconfig failing to execute during VPN connection](ticket:516)
   - Who will fix and how?

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