Basic info

• Time: Monday 7th Nov 2016, 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on Freenode IRC network

Topics

1. OpenVPN QA
   • Quick summary of what we have now below
   • Patchwork for openvpn-devel?
     • ​http://jk.ozlabs.org/projects/patchwork/
     • fetch patches from list, store them in easily browsed repository
     • CI systems can poll patchwork and auto-test apply + compile incoming patches (using throwaway VMs that get reset after each test run)
     • quagga is doing this ​https://patchwork.quagga.net/project/quagga/list/
2. OpenVPN 2.4 - next steps?
   • Release status page
   • RFC: deprecate or remove --key-method 1?
   • Getting 2.4 into Debian 9
     • Mail from the Debian package maintainer: "I'll consider uploading 2.4_something in early December, so we have a month to fix possible issues. After December 29 it won't be doable."
3. OpenVPN 2.3.14 release
   • what is missing?

Current QA

Tool/process	Automated	In use	Extra requirements	When does it catch errors?[1]
				Before sending patch	Before merge to Git	After merge	Before release
"make check"	No	Yes	None	X
vagrant	No	In progress	Vagrant installed	X
code review	No	Yes	None	X
travis	Yes	Yes	Use a GitHub PR		X
buildbot	Yes	Yes	None			X
win snapshots[2]	Yes	Yes	None			X	X
win testsuite[3]	Semi	Yes	Windows				X

1. As used currently
2. <​https://github.com/mattock/sbuild_wrapper>
3. <​https://github.com/mattock/openvpn-windows-test>

More complete description of our QA on the OpenVPN QA page.

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