Re: [Openvpn-devel] Topics for today's (Monday, 18th May 2015) community meeting

[Samuli Seppänen]

Hi,

Here's the summary of today's IRC meeting.

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COMMUNITY MEETING

Place: #openvpn-devel on irc.freenode.net
List-Post: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Monday 18th May 2015
Time: 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC)

Planned meeting topics for this meeting were here:



The next meeting is scheduled to two weeks from this meeting:



Your local meeting time is easy to check from services such as



SUMMARY

cron2, krzee, jamesyonan, mattock and syzzer participated in this meeting

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Discussed the option of creating a honeypot email address to lessen the 
amount of (clueless) support requests on the security mailing list. All 
were in favor


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Discussed OpenVPN argument parsing:



Decided to make the config parser fail if erroneous extra options are 
encountered.


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Discussed the status of OpenVPN 2.3.7 release. The status of the release 
will be reviewed in next meeting in two weeks from now. We'll also try 
to push out the release later that week. If some tickets can't be 
tackled, they will be moved to 2.3.8.


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Discussed the status of OpenVPN 2.4 release. The main missing components 
are AEAD, IPv6 (fixes) and the interactive service.


Syzzer will make the interactive service patchset less intrusive by 
providing the "move things into struct tt" patch. After this the code 
can be moved into a separate Git branch from which mattock can start 
building snapshot installers. As the patch is already in wide use 
according to its author (d12fk), basic verification of functionality 
should be good enough for moving it to Git master.


The IPv6-related changes require a few days of focused effort on cron2's 
part.


The AEAD patches need review and testing first and foremost. Syzzer will 
provide updated patches based on the feedback.


We will continue work on 2.4 after the 2.3.7 release is out.

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Samuli Seppänen
Community Manager
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc

irc freenode net: mattock

(21:00:07) mattock: meeting time
(21:00:52) mattock: who do we have here?
(21:01:41) krzee: o/
(21:01:42) syzzer: well, me, obviously :p
(21:03:13) cron2: \ob/
(21:03:48) mattock: hi!
(21:03:57) mattock: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Topics-2015-05-18
(21:03:59) vpnHelper: Title: Topics-2015-05-18 – OpenVPN Community (at 
community.openvpn.net)
(21:04:01) mattock: anything to add to the agenda?
(21:04:07) syzzer: will james be joining tonight?
(21:04:19) mattock: I have not explicitly asked him
(21:04:26) mattock: I can send him an email if you think we'd need him
(21:04:45) mattock: any topics in particular for James?
(21:04:46) syzzer: he usually has an opinion on config file discussions
(21:04:58) mattock: ok, I'll mention that
(21:06:18) mattock: mail sent
(21:08:08) mattock: maybe we could start from topic #2, "Support requests sent 
to the security list"
(21:08:32) mattock: any thoughts on creating a honeypot email address for 
clueless people?
(21:08:41) cron2: +1
(21:09:14) jamesyonan [~jamesy...@c-67-166-32-18.hsd1.co.comcast.net] è entrato 
nella stanza.
(21:09:14) modalità (+o jamesyonan) da ChanServ
(21:09:34) krzee: +1
(21:09:37) syzzer: if I get less mail from clueless people, I'm all for it :p
(21:09:40) mattock: great!
(21:09:49) krzee: we have support places
(21:09:52) mattock: I'll get it done or fail trying then
(21:09:56) krzee: no reason for them to spam you guys
(21:10:02) mattock: krzee: yeah, exactly
(21:10:05) mattock: hi james!
(21:10:12) mattock: I think we can move to topic #1 now
(21:10:19) mattock: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9599
(21:10:20) syzzer: perfect timing
(21:10:21) vpnHelper: Title: Gmane Loom (at thread.gmane.org)
(21:10:29) krzee: hey james =]
(21:10:38) jamesyonan: hi guys
(21:10:46) cron2: hi Jams
(21:10:56) cron2: argh, typing impaired
(21:11:48) krzee: did anyone show james that page that said usa people were 
banned from contributing?  lol
(21:12:32) jamesyonan: that sounds like something out of the 90s
(21:13:16) mattock: krzee: what page?
(21:14:58) syzzer: ostif.org I believe, but I never managed to actually find 
the claim on the site
(21:15:24) krzee: i saw it before, trying to find again
(21:16:00) mattock: so config parsing?
(21:16:10) mattock: syzzer, cron2: you had some discussion about this on the ml
(21:16:48) krzee: ive seen people put funny options to redirect-gateway that 
were not fatal and would have helped the user to find their own problem if they 
were
(21:16:54) syzzer: yes, I voiced my opinion. I think it is a bit harsh for 2.3, 
but we should not silently ignore extra parameters and I would be fine with 
rejecting such configs in 2.4
(21:17:23) cron2: it's a bit too intrusive for 2.3, I'd say, but I agree on 2.4
(21:17:31) mattock: sounds reasonable
(21:17:31) cron2: we just need to 

[Openvpn-devel] Topics for today's (Monday, 18th May 2015) community meeting

[Samuli Seppänen]

Hi,

We're going to have an IRC meeting today, 18th May, starting at 20:00 
CEST (18:00 UTC) on #openvpn-devel  irc.freenode.net. Current topic 
list along with basic information is here:




If you have any other things you'd like to bring up, respond to this 
mail, send me mail privately or add them to the list yourself.


In case you can't attend the meeting, please feel free to make comments 
on the topics by responding to this email or to the summary email sent 
after the meeting. Whenever possible, we'll also respond to existing, 
related email threads.


NOTE: It's required to use a registered Freenode IRC nickname to join 
#openvpn-devel - look here for details:




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Samuli Seppänen
Community Manager
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc

irc freenode net: mattock