[WLANware] GSoC 2017 - Attended Sysupgrade

[Paul Spooren]

Hi Andi,

if I can make it I'll attend!

Best,

Paul


Am 16.05.2017 um 13:17 schrieb Andreas Bräu:
> Hi Paul,
>
> will you be able to attend our Wireless Community Weekend? There you can
> share and discuss your project with the community.
>
> More information you'll find here:
> https://wiki.freifunk.net/Wireless_Community_Weekend_2017
>
> Best,
>
> Andi
>
> On 16.05.2017 12:26, Paul Spooren wrote:
>> Hi Philipp,
>>
>> thanks for your interest! I've just begun research of current
>> implementations. MeshKit could be a good staring point for a more
>> generic server setup. I'll check the current ImageBuilder [1] Web-API
>> found in Meshkit[2] to create a server side which will be convenient to
>> use for all firmware projects.
>>
>> Please note that the focus of my project is also on creating an rpcd API
>> allowing a frontend to inquire the current state of the installed
>> firmware (release/version, target, subtarget, board, user-installed
>> packages) as well as the frontend in Luci-NG (aka. Luci2) [3].
>>
>> Do you have any further advise? Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Best,
>> Paul Spooren
>>
>> [1] https://lede-project.org/docs/user-guide/imagebuilder
>> [2] https://github.com/freifunk/meshkit
>> [3] https://github.com/jow-/luci-ng
>>
>>
>> Am 16.05.2017 um 11:51 schrieb Philipp Borgers:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> can you tell us a little bit more about the server part of your project? Do you
>>> actually plan to write server code?
>>>
>>> Where can we find the code and documentation of your project?
>>>
>>> There is some interest in an "auto" update in the Berlin community [1] too. We
>>> would benefit from a implementation that is independent of the libremesh
>>> project.
>>>
>>> Best Philipp
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/freifunk-berlin/firmware/issues/22
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:34:55AM +0200, Paul Spooren wrote:
>>>> 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
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