On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 10:46 AM Rui Salvaterra <rsalvate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, Rich, > > On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 at 17:54, Rich Brown <richb.hano...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Paul, Rafał, > > > > I think our emails passed in the ether... > > (http://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2021-October/036637.html) > > > > As I said in that message, I am very aware of the time constraints of the > > volunteers for OpenWrt. And I don't mean to suck the conversation into > > "grand strategies" without any endpoint. > > > > Let's focus on our next step. In my earlier note, I asked: > > > > 1) What would prevent us from accomplishing the 22.XX Release Goals in > > March 2022? (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/releases/goals/22.xx) > > > > - How do we see the time between now and March playing out? > > - Are there things we should leave out? Or should the release date be > > shifted? > > I think the target date is fine, as long as we don't try to bite more > than we can chew. :) > I'm a bit wary of the firewall4 migration, to be honest. Do we have > performance numbers comparing nftables vs iptables, for complex rule > sets? I'm asking because nftables can be slower than iptables [1], in > at least in some scenarios. > > I also believe the priority should be to get all targets at 5.10 by > default and to drop those which are stuck at 5.4 for some reason > (small flash/RAM, unmaintained, etc.). And a dropped target doesn't > mean it's gone forever, it can always be revived in the future, with > enough interest, talent and Git. :) With this out of the way, bumping > mac80211 to 5.15 is probably the hardest task at hand and, after it's > done, I think we're release-worthy. Anything else (say, DSA for ath79 > targets with qca8k switches) would be a nice bonus, but never a > release blocker. As a sidenote, more testers are needed for it. There's also the issue of LED configuration. Colors are not easy to figure out. Some configs are totally bogus as well. > > Just my 0.02 €. Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Rui > > [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=BPFILTER-2021 > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
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