Converging with another of my projects

[kaiyou]

Hello,

I have contributed some features and refactoring to wesher in the past and have been using it for production clusters everyday since. Little to say I have come to love this project, its simple architecture and philosophy.

As a separate project I have been building a Kubernetes distribution, starting with duct-taped proof of concepts binding wesher and k3s together as independent processes. I have reached a point where binding the pieces together is better achieved in Golang directly, benefiting from the nice feats of Goroutine scheduler and memory manager.

In the end, I would very much like to embed wesher as a library for setting up the mesh vpn. I would use the wireguard abstractions and common types but probably not the cluster abstractions as is, since I require them for exchanging more than wireguard keys. For prototyping I have implemented what I believe is a much needed library for abstracting memberlist delegate patterns and providing simple usable event channels. I think it has become generic enough to serve as a basis for other projects.

My proposal would be:

1. Publish that library (branded sml, as in simpler memberlists), which is largely inspired by wesher cluster package
2. Make wesher packages a bit more ergonomic for using as a library
3. Move wesher on top of sml for easier integration in my current project
4. Move my own codebase on top of both wesher and sml.

I am exposing this plan for us to assess if it is worth the time and energy, or if I should just stick with a separate wireguard mesh implementation which is 80% copy pasted from wesher yet weighs a couple dozen lines of Go only.

Cheers 🤗

[costela]

hey @kaiyou!

Thanks for the suggestion! Very nice to hear wesher is still useful to you! 🥳

I have no problems with the idea on principle, but I haven't thought out the specifics, so I can't be really sure of the outcome. I'm also somewhat overextended with my OSS-time (as can be seen by the many open PRs left hanging 😞), so I'm not sure how much concrete help I would be.

Would this sml lib live inside the wesher project?