= OpenVPN Hackathon 2017 = [[TOC(inline, depth=1)]] == who == This year's hackathon is organized by Heiko Hund (d12fk). We will stick to the format of the previous years, which means attendance is in principle limited to "active developers that are also regularly contributing to #openvpn-devel or the mailing list". We should have enough space in the meeting room for 16 devs. == who is coming? == ||= Name =||= Topics =||= Arrival =||= Departure =||= Hotel =|| || Heiko Hund || - || Fri. 10am || Sun. 20pm || @home || || Antonio Quartulli || traffic manipulation API || Thu noon || Sun afternoon || Der Blaue Reiter || || Samuli Seppänen || OpenVPN 3 development || Thu late evening || Sun mid-afternoon || Der Blaue Reiter || || Steffan Karger || Post-quantum key exchange, performance || Fri 13:16 (Bhf Durlach) || Sun mid-afternoon || Blaue Reiter || || Gert Döring || branch maintenance - what goes where, and why? || Fri noon-ish || Sun late afternoon || Blauer Reiter || || Arne Schwabe || - || Fri 12 am at HBF || Sun late afternoon || Blauer Reiter || || David Sommerseth || clean-ups, plug-ins, OpenVPN 3 client || Thursday evening || Sun afternoon || Blaue Reiter || || Lev Stipakov || ovpn3 || Thu late evening || Sun mid-afternoon || Der Blaue Reiter || || Jan Just Keijser || performance, EduVPN || Friday early afternoon || Sun late-afternoon || Der Blaue Reiter || || Gert van Dijk || Post-quantum key exchange, documentation || Fri 13:16 (Bhf Durlach) || Sun mid-afternoon || Blaue Reiter || || Johan Draaisma || Moral support || Thu noon-ish || Sun at noon || Der Blaue Reiter || || James Yonan || || Thursday || || || || Simon Rozman || eduVPN, MSI packaging || Thu late evening || Sun mid-afternoon || Der Blaue Reiter || || François Kooman || eduVPN, OAuth || Thu afternoon || Mon || Der Blaue Reiter || == where? == The meeting is held at the Sophos office in Karlsruhe (Germany): [https://osm.org/go/0DlEda7Ld?m=&node=2127345937]. Karlsruhe is an one hour ICE train ride away from Frankfurt Airport. If you have any questions or got lost - please contact Heiko at +49 172 74 911 92. == when? == The hackathon will take place from Friday November 10th 2017 to Sunday November 12th. == what? == So what is the goal of the Hackathon? * should we get rid of LZ4 as bundled library and always rely on what the system has installed? * plan clean up route.c and tun.c - which approach should we use? improve OS/distro modularization? settle on an improved API? * add more topics here! We're all open for additions here - I think the meetings in Brussels (2011+2012), Munich (2013+2014), Delft (2015) and Helsinki (2016) have shown that "just being able to sit together and hack" is a useful exercise. == input == There will be drinks and snacks to get us through the day. We have a kitchen, so you can also [https://xkcd.com/149/ make sandwiches] or a bowl of cereals. Chance of BBQ if there's demand in November. == internet == Free Wifi and wired network is available == accommodation == The closest Hotel is the "Der Blaue Reiter" just across the street.[[BR]] Cheapest accomodation is [http://www.ibis.com/gb/hotel-3179-ibis-budget-karlsruhe/index.shtml IBIS budget] a good 10 minute walk away. == results = (informal notes on some of the discussions that benefit from writing down) * MSI (samuli, simon, ...) * discussed - next steps? * route.c / tun.c rehaul (ordex, dazo, cron2, jjk) * Linux support for ifconfig/route is dropped * we keep iproute2 support (because jjk brought up special cases where you really want to call out to external programs that can be wrapped to "do local thins", and --up scripts are just much more effort) * we add direct netlink support * netlink support needs to come along with strong unit tests that verifies all setter/getter operations using explicit "ip ..." calls to verify that our abstraction layer is really doing what it's meant to (cron2 worried about binary representations being error-prone) * the netlink library needs to clearly print what it does to the log ("what it thinks it does", and the unit test needs to ensure that this is actually true) * we split route.c to route.c and route-platform.c, but we do not want route-{linux,freebsd,netbsd,solaris,..}.c as that would be mostly copy-paste code duplication of mostly identical code with "one line different" (the route call) * we look into splitting tun.c into tun-unix.c and tun-win32.c, but not tun-{linux,freebsd,netbsd,solaris,...].c, for the same reasons * tun.c needs to see all those nearly-identical tun_read()/tun_write() functions merged into one place, and then we see what else is copy-paste code reuse * vagrant (dazo, mattock, cron2) * ...?