= Basic info =

* Time: Wednesday 08 february 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
* Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

= Topics =

== Current topics ==

* **Planning to have a new release of OpenVPN 2.6 around March 8th.**

* **Press release of 2.6**\\''in progress, draft was made, needs review from some community members (who?)\\it was suggested to have the draft on cryptpad, so novaflash will do that after the meeting and drop it in the channel''

* **Do we need to do a build I005 of 2.6.0 because of OpenSSL 3 update?**\\''seems there is no urgency, doesn't seem to affect openvpn2 that much. can always reconsider.''

* **Website release process woes**\\''the process changes in company website team are causing delays in website updates, this affects even company products.\\novaflash discussed 7th of february with website team to force them to find a solution.\\proposed solution is to have a repo where certain content is placed that certain community members can access to push updates.\\an automatic update system would then regularly poll that file and publish the changes, so delay in publishing would be a few hours, not days.''

* **Review DCO-for-Linux release status**\\''working on making control packets go through transport socket instead of netlink. easy for udp, not so easy for tcp.\\looks like ordex will have this change ready for the upcoming 2.6.1 release. we'll rename dco module to ovpn-dco2 then.\\then next item is TCP notification missing under heavy load bug. will retest after control channel moved to socket.''

* **License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues**\\''current status is that we know for sure from legal expert that an exception addition is necessary.\\there is a draft that has been refined based on feedback from community and company members.\\plaisthos and dazo are working on refining things and sending it out to community for approval.\\during this meeting this was not done yet but they're working on it.''

* **Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review.**\\''the proof of concept is online. stated goals are:\\replace patchwork. all mailing list conversation around a patch visible in gerrit. reviews in gerrit entirely.\\plus, see if a patch would break stuff (like, this patch is for windows but breaks linux compilation)\\d12fk and uddr will work together on getting the email list patches into gerrit, and take it from there.''

* **2.6 release - did we get some feedback, and is any of it vital to respond on?**\\''lev dealt with a boot failure issue on some specific computers models with the release of build I004.\\dazo upstreamed a fix for an selinux policy to enable use of DCO but this takes time to distribute.\\dazo will make an intermediate solution by packaging selinux policy for Fedora/Copr packages.''

== Topics on standby ==

* **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.\\there was some trouble with him getting credentials but that should be resolved now.\\last known status is that it is waiting for approval from ecrist''

* **Can we have someone at OpenVPN create nicer windows traybar logos (#1276)?**\\''yes matt is currently working on it in https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/595''

* **Have to remember to update SupportedVersions to put 2.4 out of support at around end of March**

* **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.''

* **https://www-dev.openvpn.in/community-resources/openvpn-quickstart/ will be updated from /doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst information.**\\''Static-key will be deprecated and contents updated with peer-fingerprint stuff.\\novaflash will pick this up again now that he is back.''

* **IPv6 to community.**''\\No new information to report.''