[Battlemesh] WBMv8 -- a personal perspective

[Thijs van Veen]

Hi, 

Just to add in my thoughts.

First of all, the shell scripts Henning and I wrote are very simple.
I thought we'd be doing much more difficult stuff, but it all turned out
pretty basic.
I hope people will learn from this and understand that it doesn't take a
genius to help out, just some focus.

WiBed can be a very valuable tool to help us test things on a larger
scale and get more info from the nodes.
This is one of the reasons I offered Manos to help out with getting
WiBed up and running before the next Battlemesh.

I'm pretty sure we can save a lot of issues just by grabbing the latest
stable versions and freeze that configuration for testing.
It's great to have this drive for testing the latest versions, but
please let us keep this seperate from the controlled testing
environment.
Any bugfixes after the frozen configuration should be acknowledged in
the discussion of the testresults.

What I would like to see next year is basically three things:

1. A backup manual solution (possibly based on the scripts Henning and I
wrote);
2. A WiBed setup with stable versions of OpenWRT and the protocols to be
tested;
3. A WiBed setup with the bleeding edge versions of OpenWRT and the
protocols.

All of this of course includes the protocol configurations, which may
depend on the test scenarios.
You can expect an email from me about a month before the event to gather
which scenarios we want to test and how we should configure the
protocols for these scenarios.

-- 
  Thijs van Veen
  dicht at operamail.com

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015, at 15:51, Henning Rogge wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I already talked with a few people of the batman-adv team and I think
> I can make a suggestion of a configuration that will work for
> IP-routing and Batman-Advanced in the next few days.
> 
> Henning
> 
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:42 PM, nemesis <nemesis at ninux.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:13:24 +0200, nemesis <nemesis at ninux.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 22:01:33 +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek
> >> <jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >> [...]
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I would also encourage more participation of ALL the routing protocol
> >> developers, because in my opinion the batman-adv team did not follow
> >> the process as much as the other routing protocol developers.
> >
> >
> > Clarifying as this could be a potential flame starter.
> >
> > I chatted with It's not really true that the batman-adv people did not
> > follow, there was a lack of clear communication so they were more focused on
> > the wibed testbed.
> >
> > The solution in my opinion is to get part of the configurations before the
> > event and have them approved by routing devs.
> >
> > Fed
> >
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