wiki:Topics-2023-02-01

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Basic info

  • Time: Wednesday 01 february 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
  • Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

Current topics

  • Press release of 2.6
    in progress
  • Review DCO-for-Linux release status
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  • License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues
    dazo is in contact with open source legal expert, explaining the issues, getting feedback.
    our concern about system libraries is definitely warranted - on linux it may be considered so but not on most other platforms.
    main question is, do we have to limit the exception to apply only to cryptographic libraries?
    question really being; do we expect it to be abused if we blanket approve all apach2 libraries?
  • As discussed in Hackathon we want to do a PoC with using Gerrit for code review.
    the proof of concept is online. yuriy will provide information on this.
    using credentials from commnunity it should now be possible to access it at https://gerrit.openvpn.net/
  • 2.6 release - did we get some feedback, and is any of it vital to respond on?
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  • Forums machine on community infrastructure is only non-Linux system.
    mattock made a new forums system that runs on rocky linux 8 as agreed with ecrist.
    Currently waiting for ecrist to test if he has access and all is well before we're able to make the switch.
    ecrist indicated that he is missing some information, mattock provided this.

Topics on standby

  • OpenVPN 2.6 performance results.
    We should work on an article to publish some performance results when 2.6 is out as stable. but first press release.
  • Management interface documentation on main website will be updated with info from doc/management-notes.txt
    novaflash will pick this up again now that he is back.
  • IPv6 to community.
    No new information to report.