OpenWrt 24.XX release plan

[Daniel Golle]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 07:25:53PM +0200, Christian Marangi (Ansuel) wrote:
> 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.

I think it's pretty normal that not everything in feeds is ready at the
moment we create a release branch. Creating the release branch and
starting 24.10-SNAPSHOT builds also doesn't imply creating a release
candidate right away imho.

> 
> APK is already usable.

Exactly, from my experience it works fine, I've tested ImageBuilder and
run some APK-based images -- just not my own local server with package
indexes and all that...

If on the buildbot side everything is ready to do the switch, then lets
do it as soon as possible I'd say.