OpenWrt 24.XX release plan

[Christian Marangi (Ansuel)]

Il giorno mer 23 ott 2024 alle ore 19:22 Daniel Golle
<daniel at makrotopia.org> ha scritto:
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 05:52:30PM +0200, Christian Marangi (Ansuel) wrote:
> > Il giorno mer 23 ott 2024 alle ore 17:51 Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz>
> > ha scritto:
> > >
> > > Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> [2024-09-21 11:51:19]:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > We should already start building up the build infrastructure for a 24.10
> > > > branch now.
> > > > @ynezz: What is needed for that?
> > >
> > > tl;dr basically just the openwrt-24.10 branches in the Git repositories
> > >
> > > Rough procedure is here https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/releases/buildbot-major-releases
> > >
> >
> > I think it's too late for APK
> >
> > If everyone is OK I can take care of branching this week with the current state.
>
> I don't think we should wait with APK -- even if initially packages in
> the package feeds are still failing because their version string is not ok
> for APK, creating a release branch with APK being the default package
> manager will make it clear to everyone this is going to happen and the
> remaining (trivial) changes can be done to packages in their respective
> feeds.
>
> I understood that index based trust is now impemented in APK:
> https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/apk-tools/-/issues/11008
>
> What else is missing?
>

Well mainly it's the luci app and extensive testing. If we really want
we can ""abuse"" the rc stage for testing.

APK is already usable.