Hack call: 14:00 UTC
- Dropping both armel targets, Dreamplug and Raspberry Pi 1 (Danny)
- Is it time to stop supporting these models?
Read the comments here: https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedom-maker/issues/150
- This does NOT apply to Raspberry Pi 2.
- Reasons to drop:
- Performance
- Neither model gets proper kernel updates
Gets us closer to dropping all non-free software from FreedomBox
- We need an infrastructure to communicate with users to explain that there will be no support for their devices anymore.
- Whenever plinth is updated, we can display release notes.
- We can write in the next release notes that we have dropped these two targets
- FBF will share the news
- Encourage users to move on to other hardware or use Debian images on these devices instead
- Impact:
people who already have installed FreedomBox on these devices are not affected.
People who have not installed FreedomBox on these devices cannot install latest images.
- Timeline:
- Test freedombox backups feature for all apps and make sure that it works.
- Once we know that backups works, we can update the wikipage with how-to instructions and make the announcement.
- Goal is to finish this process by Friday, December 14
- Pending tasks for Hardware Kits release + Cloud images launch
- Buster images must have backports
- Buster doesn't have backports yet
- Must be added after they are released or kept disabled for now
- Setting apt pin priority of plinth and other packages
- Show "status" to user e.g. stable/stable+backports/devel ?
- Buster doesn't have backports yet
- Testing of Lime 2 rev. G2 images
- We have to document to our users that the newest revision doesn't work
- Website updates
- cloud page
- buy page
- Buster images must have backports
- Infrastructure
- Demo server
- Discourse instance
FreedomBox user personae
An earlier attempt - https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/snippets/248
- Writing a risk assessment for new users to explain the risks of each major use case.
- "user personae", of which activist/protestor is one user persona
- This is more of a design document to help the developers understand the needs of their users, not a marketing document.
NILFS2 https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/issues/1433
- alternative to Btrfs
- snapshots on every write
State of remote sshfs backups (fonfon) https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/merge_requests/1377
https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/issues/844 - onionshare: should it be run as a daemon? can it?
state of freedombox.org re-launch https://42.meup.org/OWnNHKtN/export.png (work in progress – NOT finished at all)
- state of freedomboxfoundation.org - text was re-written, more changes coming soon
