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
- Status of OpenVPN 2.4
- Assign tickets to "alpha 2.4", "beta 2.4", "RC 2.4" and 2.4.0
- Replacing openvpnserv.exe with NSSM
- 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 (.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
- 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
- Windows 8.1 DNS registration issues
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