# IrcMeetings ## Basic info - **Time:** Wednesday 6 March 2024 at 13:00 CEST (11:00 UTC) - **Place:** #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network ## Topics ### Current topics - **New: openvpn 2.6.10 release** - *There are some Windows related issues to be resolved in this release.* - *Tentatively planned for end of next week.* - **Updated: server-side testing status and next meeting** - mattock has created a PoC of `--dev null` "does a client connect" check - client config has `--dev null` and `ifconfig-noexec` - uses an "up" script to stop the parent (openvpn) process gracefully soon after connection initialization - the "up" script almost certainly includes some Linux-specifisms - example usage: - `openvpn --config client.conf | grep "Initialization Sequence Completed"` - integration with "make check", buildbot, etc. is still missing - next steps: - integrate the PoC with "make check" - make the script portable - buildbot integration (if required separately) - *We want to continue on this topic once a bit more progress has been made.* - **Updated: forums topics** - *A new forum is under construction. But already spammers have found it.* - *Suggestion is to give openvpn_inc user novaflash and Pippin_ full admin rights so they can help find a solution and help maintain the forums.* - *To be discussed with ecrist.* - *Layout and categories look ok?* - *Access for Mod to delete users that put spam url in profile and never post a message, currently I cannot discover a way to delete those(1)* - *Related to above, Access for Mod to edit user profiles (asks for AdminCP password)(1)* - *Mod guide, hard or soft delete (chuck board?), what to do with GDPR, etc. (write it down and actually make it available to mods, maybe a hidden topic)* - *Access for mods to logs so one can see what others did* - *Email confirmation on register?* - *[Forgot password or user name?](https://forums-new.openvpn.net/lostpw) and [Contact](https://forums-new.openvpn.net/contact-us)?* - *Considering some existing platform to do discussions next to forum?* - *(1) May not be necessary if enough admin available* - **Updated: website release process** - *Finally they have come up with a solution that they will run by novaflash this week.* - **New: breaking DCO changes, how to approach?** - *This topic appeared but we do not have details on what this entails exactly.* - *Perhaps ordex can provide details on what this is about, so we can have a meaningful discussion.* - **Updated: Status of SBOM** - *There was a discussion between MaxF and djpig and others.* - *For OpenVPN2 / OpenVPN-NL, there is not much overlap, as OpenVPN2 doesn't ship much in terms of libraries, but OpenVPN-NL does.* - *The interesting use-case for an SBOM is really the OpenVPN Windows GUI client.* - **Updated: Debian and Ubuntu snapshot packages and buildbot** - Cloudfront + S3 + aptly PoC is complete and seems to work fine - Cloudfront caches need to be invalidated when new packages are added or removed, or the apt repository will end up in an inconsistent state almost immediately - If we use swupdate.openvpn.net to publish the snapshots we will have to deal with cloudfront + cloudflare. - We can choose to just publish snapshots on build.openvpn.net. This seems the preferred option. - Alternatively, a new S3 bucket + cloudfront can be done. Whatever people like best. - Buildbot integration is missing, but should be fairly straightforward - This will probably have to wait until `--dev null` is done - **status of trac/wiki** - *No progress since last meeting.* - *This will probably have to wait until `--dev null` is done* - *Should have access controls so only approved members can edit.* - **Security mailing list procedure can stand improvement** - *To be discussed in more detail later.* - **community funding** - *ordex has an initiative he wants to bring up regarding dev resources to be added to community.* - *This may tie into the donations topic.* - *In short ordex convinced OTF (Open Tech Fund) to provide a "test FOSS funding scheme" to OpenVPN.* - *This would for example allow to pay for allocated hours for mattock and cron2 to work on OpenVPN community tasks.* - *This is to be worked out more and in collaboration between OpenVPN Community, OpenVPN Inc., and OTF.* - **donation collection** - *what are the options?* - **Tunnelcrack progress [TunnelCrack community wiki article](wiki:TunnelCrack)** - *Current status: when mitigations start appearing we will mention them in meeting notes.* - **OpenVPN community meetup 2024** - *Naming: We decided to rename from 'Hackathon' to 'OpenVPN community meetup'. This has a more open spirit to it, as we want to encourage developers and those interested in contributing to feel welcome.* - *Where: Karlsruhe, Germany. It is a relatively central location in Europe and is fairly easily reachable by train. A meeting location is yet to be arranged.* - *When: At the moment tentatively set to 20-22 September 2024.* - *Who: We'll do an open invitation to openvpn-devel mailing list, but also CC: specifically past attendees and people of interest.* - *Shirts: There is plenty of time still to prepare a shirt design.* - **Static-key mini how-to is outdated.** - *This page is outdated badly: [Static Key Mini Howto](https://openvpn.net/community-resources/static-key-mini-howto/)* - *company will send this to tech writer to redo based on [example fingerprint](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst) info and also retain a link to that github doc. Having a simple guide online will help adoption.* - **OpenVPN 2.6 performance results.** - *tests should cover: gre, ipsec, userland, dco* - *linux, freebsd, windows* - *requires time to be dedicated to doing this, when time available will do it* - **What's going on with new taskbar icons?** - *matt provided icons in [Issue #595](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/595)* - *last update: will be picked up by selva when he has time* - **software code signing topic** - *company switched EV code signing to cloudhsm, this is same cert type we use for driver signing, is also suitable for binary signing.* - *in future we could possibly switch community to that same key. saves having to maintain 2 different keys.* - *depends on how hard/easy it is to access company key signing thingee from community infrastructure.* - *also no high priority at the moment, we have a working solution now.* - **Management interface documentation on main website will be updated with info from doc/management-notes.txt** - *novaflash will pick this up at some point*