Re: [lime] lime-app in the next release

Hi Ger!

It would be very nice if you share some info about how lime app was
released until now.

I would love to release a new version asap!

Thx!

Germán Ferrero:
> Hi, I could help with doing a release, with a little help from my bash
> history. But it would be necessary a word from selankon about what's ready
> to be released.
>
> El vie., 19 de ene. de 2024 13:15, Ilario <ilario@???> escribió:
>
>> On 1/16/24 15:18, pony via LibreMesh wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>
>> Hi!!!
>>
>>> I have a few questions about testing the release candidate.
>>> If I have understood correctly, the version of lime-app going into the
>> release will be a newer one than the current release 0.2.25 from March
>> 2022.
>>
>> Yes, we cannot use the 0.2.25 release because it has an annoying bug
>> that causes it to be blank when the router does not have any neighbour.
>> It has already been fixed in the lime-app code, but the patch has not
>> been included in any lime-app release yet.
>> The discussion on this "old" bug is here:
>> https://github.com/libremesh/lime-app/issues/378
>> If I recall correctly, there are two workarounds for using lime-app
>> currently:
>> 1) use at least two routers, so that they see a neighbour and lime-app's
>> bug does not appear
>> 2) open directly the URL of one of the tabs (Gothos, can you write the
>> direction that you mentioned during the meeting?)
>>
>>> So would it make sense to test libremesh with the version of lime-app
>> that goes into the release?
>>
>> Yes, that is what would be ideal to do.
>> Yet, we need someone to package the lime-app release (I have no idea how
>> to use lime-app if it is not available as a release...).
>> Until now, all the lime-app releases have been done either by Altermundi
>> members Marcos or Germán (in CC).
>> From what I understood, neither Marcos nor Germán are active in
>> Altermundi right now, so I have no idea who is going to make the release.
>> @Altermundi people: please tell us something! Anything!
>> In the absence of life signs from Altermundi, we could try to do that
>> from the community side (anyone with expertise on such things?).
>>
>>> In the last meeting the question was raised where the development of
>> lime-app is currently happening. Are there any news about this? The github
>> repo of lime-app stops at May 2023 and has switched to preactjs since the
>> last release. Should I use its develop branch for testing?
>>
>> Checking this page:
>> https://github.com/libremesh/lime-app/network
>> seems that Selankon (in CC) is very active in the development, and that
>> there is a lot of code to be merged in the main lime-app repository.
>>
>>> Another question: Should I use the the 2023.1 or the master branch of
>> lime-packages for testing?
>>
>> The master branch. We cannot use OpenWrt 23.05.2 with LibreMesh
>> 2023.1-rc2, as the 2023.1-rc2 misses this fix of yours:
>> https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/pull/1061
>>
>> If you prefer, we can create a tag for a release candidate 2024.1-rc1.
>>
>>> Liebst Pony
>>
>> Thanks!!!
>> Hugs!
>> Ilario
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ilario
>> iochesonome@???
>> ilario@???
>>
>>
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