[Ninux-Wireless] Fwd: LibreMesh Release Candidate and call for testing

[Ilario Gelmetti]

Ah hem...
Purtroppamente la scheda di rete del server web argentino del sito
libremesh.org schiantò giusto quando poco dopo aver inviato l'email. Se
i link qui sotto vi risultassero irraggiungibili, potrete trovare il
codice sorgente del sito (con gli stessi contenuti, solo meno bellini) qui:
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-web/

On 9/26/20 1:43 PM, Ilario Gelmetti wrote:
> Ri-invio una mia mail: in novembre dovrebbe uscire una nuova versione di
> LibreMesh (dopo 3 anni dall'ultima!!) e c'è bisogno di gente che provi
> se funziona tutto più o meno bene.
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: **Release Candidate** and call for testing
> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 12:55:45 +0200
> From: Ilario Gelmetti <iochesonome at gmail.com>
> To: libremesh users <lime-users at lists.libremesh.org>
> 
> Great news:
> SAn TAGGED A RELEASE CANDIDATE FOR THE LIBREMESH 20.09 RELEASE!!
> Even if the LibreMesh development never stopped, it was since the 17.06
> "Dayboot Rely" release that we didn't have an _official_ release.
> The goal is to have the **final release at the beginning of November**.
> 
> This means that the release candidate needs testing, bug fixing and
> loads of community love before the end of October, so that we can have
> an amazing release that can actually ease the creation of community
> networks everywhere :)
> 
> We can coordinate the efforts on this mailing list and on the
> IRC/Element chatroom (Element is the new name of Riot chat):
> https://libremesh.org/communication.html
> 
> Seems that the next release will be (at least initially) source-only,
> which means that you will have to compile it yourself on top of OpenWrt
> 18.06.8 or 19.07.4. Right now there's no way to download the
> pre-compiled binary, but I hope this will be available at some point.
> 
> In order to compile the release candidate follow the instructions from
> the Development page:
> https://libremesh.org/development.html
> 
> As you can see in the compiling instructions, both OpenWrt 18.06.8 or
> 19.07.4 can be used as a base, but I think we should have more testing
> on the newest 19.07.4 (until now the testing has been focussed mostly on
> 18.06.8).
> 
> There's no need to select the release candidate branch for the
> compilation, seems that the master branch will be used also for the
> testing and the relevant commits will be cherry-picked in November (SAn,
> please correct if I'm wrong).
> 
> You can see the known issues on the tickets list:
> https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/issues
> 
> And if you want to take care of an issue (thanks!!!), please have a look
> at these lists where you can find some indication of the priority:
> https://github.com/orgs/libremesh/projects/2
> 
> A last thing:
> do we need a codename for the release or "20.09" is enough?
> Propose your favourite name, starting with the "E" letter if possible,
> on the chatroom and then we'll organise a poll :)
> 
> Thanks!!!
> Ilario
> 


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Ilario
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