[WLANware] GSoC 2017 - Attended Sysupgrade

[Paul Spooren]

Hello everyone,

I'm Paul Spooren and I'll work on attended auto upgrades for LibreMesh
(and Lede) this GSoC.
Some personal information, I'm 24 years old and study computer science
at the University of Leipzig.

First I applied to work on captive portal login but after some
discussion with my mentor(s) we decided to create an semi auto upgrade
via the luci(-ng) fronted.

The shortcomings of captive portals will be covered in my first blogpost.

Once finished, the web interface will notify on new upgrades and the (to
be created) update server will auto generate an image with all installed
packages. This will simplify the update routine for all users, even with
special setups where packages are required for Internet connection.

The "image as a service" approach could also optimize the current
chef.altermundi.net setup.

What I've done last week:
* setup the build environment and get to know the build process
* "design" a requests model for the "image as a service" process

What I plan to do next week:
* setup a cache mechanism in the build scrips
* check luci(-ng) sysupgrade process
* write the blog post and create a timeline

Regards,
Paul Spooren