Franco Fichtner
With a degree in computer science Franco started working on Linux-based distributions specialising in networking and firewalls in 2009 and never really left the field. After founding a company to focus more on FreeBSD/Netmap open source work in 2012 the outcome shifted to the birth of the OPNsense project in 2015. After 5 years of voluntary work on OPNsense and regular work on OpenBSD-based email encryption solutions he joined Deciso, the maker of OPNsense, in 2021 to advance the project further.
Session
Since OPNsense started in 2015 a lot of work went into open and simple build tooling covering topics such as custom packaging, pkg support, source and ports tree management, signature verification and much more. This talk details some of the problems encountered, solutions implemented, how the build tooling evolved over the years and which importance the resulting fast release engineering responses have nowadays for improving overall distribution quality further.