[lime-dev] getting into libremesh

Hi! Thanks for building that great set of packages enabling (almost) stateless autoconfiguration mesh routers! I hope to use all that in my local freifunk environment; many people here are interested in LIME and I'll help getting it to interoperate with our local legacy OLSRv1 mesh and the way we use batman-adv... My main goal is to start collaboration (software development, bug fixing, ...) beyond the local firmware projects which are either half-abandonned or do not offer anything near to how lime's webui is enabling new people to get into the story and of course, none of them (meshkit, gluon, ...) are truely modular and/or offer good support for more than the single routing protocol they were originally written for. It should also be easy to have some meta-packages in LIME which would select the packages needed for typical freifunk OLSRv1 and/or batman-adv setups (expect pull-requests for that to hit your github repo soon). However, while preparing the switch to libremesh some questions and oddities arrised. I'm building from source, ie. enabled lime-packages and libremap feeds. I can't use the binaries as most of the hardware I use is unsupported or works really bad on BB. Questions which came up for now: * what's missing to run LibreMesh on more recent versions of OpenWrt? A lot of hardware was added since BB and certainly won't waste time backporting stuff to BB, but rather spend it on helping to get LIME run on bleeding-edge LEDE or at least OpenWrt's CC release (as people will still be backporting hardware support for CC for a while...) * http://chef.libre-mesh.org is unavailble... what's supposed to be there and how to bring it back? * lime-eb-ip-tables: why not use fw3? * why redundantly create per-device images instead of just using OpenWrt/LEDE ImageBuilder? ie. the downloads here http://downloads.libre-mesh.org/firmware/ are hard to understand for outsiders, also for long-term OpenWrt hackers like myself. E.g. for which hw-revision is supported by the image for the TL-WR841N(D)? I had that build-a-wrapper vs. use-OpenWrt-SDK-and-ImageBuilder debate a bunch of times and I'm sure that most people building wrappers just don't know what they are missing and/or how much extra work they have to go through compared to just using OpenWrt/LEDE in the way it was meant to be used... * How can I reproduce the way the images on downloads.libre-mesh.org have been built (ImageBuilder? List of packages/files added/removed)? I'll certainly have more questions soon :) Cheers Daniel