User:Meters/OPNsense

Preliminary notes for a board report on this long-running SPA feud. Multiple informal accusations of coi/socking/vandalism, soem have progressed to warnigns or boards. Needs to go to ANI. Probable COI, possible Sock/meat issues

OPNsense is a software firewall distribution that has been deleted multiple times, including at AFD Articles for deletion/OPNsense. The current draft Draft:OPNsense has not had any meaningful edits in 8 months and was recently rejected by user:Theroadislong.

There is a long-running (more than two-year) edit war adding and removing mention of the software to various articles and templates: add some diffs
 * Template:Firewall software
 * Template:Routing software
 * PfSense
 * PF (firewall)
 * Berkeley Software Distribution
 * M0n0wall
 * List of router and firewall distributions
 * BSD Router Project ‎
 * Security appliance
 * Coreboot
 * SmoothWall
 * Dashboard (management information systems)
 * FreeBSD
 * List of products based on FreeBSD
 * Address space layout randomization
 * OpenVPN
 * LibreSSL
 * Comparison of firewalls

Users removing mention: User:Mr.hmm (formerly known as User:Mnlth), other users not listed since they are not SPAs and appear to have just happened to have removed a few red links.

users adding mention (not even close to a full list of SPAs yet): user:Catsem user:Ikedotike user:Netfitch  user:Joswp  User: 98.231.255.142 user:2600:1003:b029:83e4:ec79:b741:5857:52c8 user:77.180.176.241

Both of the named users are stale, no longer active. (MAr 19)