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• 2019-02-24

Progress call: 17:00 UTC

• Update on conffile prompt solution (sunil)
  • Using dbus to get notified about package updates.
  • Each affected application can handle its upgrade.

  • Look at SkoleLinux for examples (old issue, see https://bugs.debian.org/311188 )

  • FreedomBox proposal: https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/issues/1483

• Problems with latest testing image (Danny)
  • Update to 19.1 in testing? Reached testing 2019-02-24.
  • Matrix problem?
    • LDAP issue for login to matrix

• progress on new homepage (mray) https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox.org/issues/69

  • useful information to display for downloads
• purchasable hardware status?
• Roadmap discussion
  • Ideas suggested by multiple people:
    • relaunch freedombox.org
    • email server
    • reachability problem
    • UI and UX updates
• Discussion notes:
  • Missing but important: providing support to consumers of hardware kits. We will provide this support in the background.
  • James: reachability should be the first target after buster
  • Danny: after Buster, focus on reachability issue and then first-boot issues
  • mray: reachability solution should be simple and not offer too many options for the sake of UX
    • UI and UX should be a big part of all projects in 2019.
  • gnoutchd: FBF infrastructure could handle DyDNS, but tunneling is not easy to provide. One solution is help user provision of VPS
• Timeline:
  • Finish work for Buster freeze - end of February
  • Reachability problem, which entails re-examining first-boot - Start in March
  • ---After reachability problem, we will look at this list again and decide what to do next---

    • Danny: after reachability, we should Evaluate Nextcloud & Mastodon + alternate packaging method (June) and FreedomBox app framework (August)

• Continue UI discussion from last call (Danny)
  • SUMMARY: We agreed
    • (1) there will be an option to turn off the homepage entirely,
    • (2) there will be an option to customize the homepage manually with HTML files,
    • (3) there will be a per-app option on whether to expose or not on the hompeage,
    • (4) there will be a per-app option on whether display or not on the homepage.

  • Notes from last time: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls/2019-02-09

  • Should the homepage be turned on by default?
    • there are two categories: the app is exposed by default, and there is no option at all to expose the app (e.g. transmission)

gnoutchd: WebRTC for tunneling (and reachability?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UProxy, https://github.com/UWNetworksLab/uProxy-p2p

Submitted ideas for 2019 Roadmap:

James Valleroy:

• Fix all major issues for Buster release.
• Start uploads to stable-backports.
• Hardware kits
• User forum

• FreedomBox monitors itself and repairs itself.

• Notification framework
• App center framework
• Relaunch freedombox.org

Danny:

• Reachability problem
• Alternative packaging method for high-demand apps like Nextcloud
• UI Updates
• First boot issues
  • self-signing certificate
  • discovery on local network
  • Windows issues with .local
  • pre-installing some critical apps like Backups
  • integrating sub-domain name assignment to first boot process

Fiftyfour:

• Email server and associated domain name management
• Relaunch of freedombox.org

A.F. Cano:

• The return of Shaarli or something like it. Some central location to keep web addresses of interest would be great, independently of browsers or specific machines.
• A mail server

Mray:

• Solve the reachability issue

• Improve UI & UX

Sunil and Joseph:

Big items:

• Reachability (~4 months)
  • Tunneling using large number of IPs from Foundation (4 weeks)
  • Strong Dynamic DNS support with good UX (5 weeks)
    • Rewrite Dynamic DNS implementation (3 weeks)
    • Migrate server to foundation infrastructure (1 week)
    • Implement new plinth features (1 week)
  • IPv6 support (1 week)
  • Better Pagekite UX (1 week)
  • Implement notifying users of port to open (1 week)
  • Document DMZ etc. configuration in routers (2 days)
  • Implement UPNP port opening (2 week)

• FreedomBox app framework (~2 months)

  • Stabilize FreedomBox API (6 weeks)

    • Implement component architecture (3 weeks)
    • Migrate apps to new API (3 weeks)
  • Update developer documentation (2 days)
  • App store and external plinth apps (2 weeks)
    • Split couple of applications into separate apps
    • Show web page with all available apps on freedombox.org?
• Nextcloud from a container (5 weeks)
  • Framework for handling containers (2 weeks)
  • Verify for free software and legal issues (2 days)
  • Handle container upgrades (1 week)
  • Handle proxying HTTP request to the container (2 days)
  • Backup and restore (3 days)
  • OAuth2/SAML authentication (3 days)
  • Container security evaulation (3 days)
• Fediverse Social Network Application (~3.5 months)
  • Packaging
    • Pleroma (2 months - 280 hours)
    • Mastodon (2 months - 280 hours)
      • 70 dependencies (Ruby + JS combined)
  • Plinth
    • Subdomain setup (2 weeks)
    • Create app (1 month)

• Anonymous mode - Hidden FreedomBox (run only Tor) (3 weeks)

• Security (4 months)
  • Automated LE certficates (1 week 3 days)
    • Cleanup existing process (1 week)
    • Make it more automatic (3 days)
  • More services to use LE certificates (1 week)
    • Mumble
    • Quassel
    • Infinoted?
  • Container level security for daemons with systemd unit changes (3 months + 1 week)
    • Basic guide (1 week)
    • For each daemon and app write the unit changes (30 apps = 30 days)
    • Submit changes to upstream and Debian packages (30 apps = 30 days)
  • Show security precautions (4 days)
    • Show SSH key fingerprints (2 days)
    • Show Mumble etc. fingerprints? (2 days)
• Sharing (~3 week)
  • Add support for NFS (1 week)
  • Add support for Samba (1 week)
  • Add support for DLNA sharing (1 week)
• Email server (3 months + 1 week)
  • MTA (2 weeks)
  • MTA - Relay setup (1 week)
  • IMAP server (3 days)
  • Pop server (3 days)
  • TLS setup (1 week)
  • LDAP integration (1 week)
  • Anti-virus server (3 days)
  • Anti-spam server (3 days)
  • Delivering without sending to spam (~1 month)
    • Reverse DNS setup with bind and dynamic DNS (1 week)
    • MX record (1 week)
    • Action 1 (1 week)
    • Action 2 (1 week)
  • Webmail UI with existing roundcube (3 days)
  • Fast search server (3 days)

• FreedomBox as Identity server (~2 months)

  • Implement SAML2 for authentication in FreedomBox (2 weeks)

  • Implement OAuth2 + OpenID Connect for authentication in FreedomBox (2 weeks)

  • Make Mediawiki use OAuth2/SAML (1 week)

  • Standards proposed by ?IndieWeb for dealing with OAuth2 shortcomings (2 weeks)

• FreedomBox as a Router (1 month)

  • For the use case of attaching a Wi-Fi router after a FreedomBox

    • IPv6 implementation fixes (1 week)
    • IPv6 DHCP-PD (2 weeks)
    • Static address allocation (1 week)

Small items:

• Hardware support
  • 64-bit ARM board support (Pine 64, etc.)
  • Combined image for all A20 boards
  • Combined image for all 64-bit boards
• Android app feature completion
• Notifications
  • web
  • mobile
  • email
• Infrastructure
  • Discourse Server
  • DynamicDNS Server
  • Better Wiki
  • Demo server
  • Alternative downloads

    • BitTorrent

• Forgot password
• Unified file-sharing app

  • Kick coquelicot and implement in FreedomBox sharing app

• Websites on FreedomBox

  • Perhaps with Wordpress
  • Static website generator
• Card-based UI completion
• Pioneer Edition release
• Distributed storage backend for backups (Tahoe-LAFS)
• Improve self-signing certificate UX during first-boot
• Usage analytics
• Supplement Debian's packaging mechanism
  • Alternative package management systems
• Implement syncthing relay
• Printing server using CUPS