LEDE project について

LEDE Project は OpenWrt Project のスピンオフとして結成され、同じゴールを目指しています。 私たちは開発者、システム管理者、Linuxファン達が組み込み機器、特に無線LANルータ向けソフトウェア開発、カスタマイズが容易な組み込み機器向けLinuxディストリビューションを開発しています。LEDE は Linux Embedded Development Environment の略称です。

Members of the project already include a significant share of the most active members of the OpenWrt community. We intend to bring new life to Embedded Linux development by creating a community with a strong focus on transparency, collaboration and decentralisation.

LEDE’s stated goals are:

• Build a great embedded Linux distribution with focus on stability and functionality.
• Make regular, predictable release cycles coupled with community provided device testing feedback.
• Establish transparent decision processes with broad community participation and public meetings.

We decided to create this new project because of long standing issues that we were unable to fix from within the OpenWrt project/community:

1. Number of active core developers at an all time low, no process for getting more new people involved.
2. Unreliable infrastructure, fixes prevented by internal disagreements and single points of failure.
3. Lack of communication, transparency and coordination in the OpenWrt project, both inside the core team and between the core team and the rest of the community.
4. Not enough people with commit access to handle the incoming flow of patches, too little attention to testing and regular builds.
5. Lack of focus on stability and documentation.

To address these issues we set up the LEDE project in a different way compared to OpenWrt:

1. All our communication channels are public, some read-only to non-members to maintain a good signal-to-noise ratio.
2. Our decision making process is more open, with an approximate 50/50 mix of developers and power users with voting rights.
3. Our infrastructure is simplified a lot, to ensure that it creates less maintenance work for us.
4. We have made our merge policy more liberal, based on our experience with the OpenWrt package github feed.
5. We have a strong focus on automated testing combined with a simplified release process.

We attempt to have regular IRC meetings to discuss and decide project matters.

The next meeting date is yet to be decided.

For the agenda of the upcoming meeting refer to the agenda pad.

All meeting logs can be viewed here.

Here you can find an alphabetically ordered list of the current people involved in LEDE Project: