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On 3/3/20 12:25 PM, amuza wrote:
> I have been out for a long while, and now I would like to resume my
> libremeshing. I don't remember many things, and I see the website did
> not change much.
>
> Is 17.06 still the recommended version?
>
> I remember when you wanted to precook binaries for your own network
> there was this chef thing you could use. Is that thing still available?
> I don't remember where it was.
>
> I'd be happy if you could give me some updates on versions,
> methodologies and URLs.

Hi!
As there was no answer on this topic in 20 days, I'll copy and paste
here spiccinini's answer that was posted on the Riot/Matrix chat [1] and
I'll add some more observations:

spiccinini wrote:
> some of us are mainly working in master, trying to maintain it as stable as possible. Many communities in south america have been using this "rolling un-release" libremesh firmwares.
>
> In my opinion we should performa a release based on 18.06 with what we have now, stating the current issues. But I know that not everyone has the same opinion (at least ilario and daniel).
>
> We currently don't have a way to colectively take decisions (for example to release or not, etc) other than the github pull requests. I would be very happy (and I beleave it will impact positively in the project) if we find a way to build a decision mechanism.

In my opinion it would be better to have an OpenWrt19.07-based release
but to have a OpenWrt18.06-based release is much much better than no
release at all (which is the current situation: LibreMesh17.06 is 3
years old now).

Chef backend and frontend is currently being rewritten by aparcar and
coworkers in a completely different shape [2,3] and anyway does not make
sense to have a Chef for something that is not a release.

So, currently the suggested compilation method is the one described on
the website on "Compiling LibreMesh from source code" [4].

The pending issues for making a release based on OpenWrt18.06 or on
OpenWrt19.07 does not differ much [5] but there is at least a
significant one regarding Batman-adv configuration.
I started selecting some high-priority issues which in my opinion would
be good to fix/implement before releasing [6]. Any contribution and
comment is welcome!

Hugs,
Ilario

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Ilario
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