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| + | ====== About the OpenWrt/ | ||
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| + | ===== What is OpenWrt? ===== | ||
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| + | Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with optional package management. This frees you from the restrictions of the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to use packages to customize an embedded device to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt provides a framework to build an application without having to create a complete firmware image and distribution around it. For users, this means the freedom of full customization, | ||
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| + | ===== A reboot of the OpenWrt community ===== | ||
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| + | In 2016, the LEDE project was founded as a spin-off of the OpenWrt project and shared many of the same goals. The project aimed at building an embedded Linux distribution that makes it easy for developers, system administrators or other Linux enthusiasts to build and customize software for embedded devices, especially wireless routers. The name //LEDE// stood for //Linux Embedded Development Environment// | ||
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| + | Members of the project included a significant share of the most active members of the OpenWrt community and intended to bring new life to Embedded Linux development by creating a community with a strong focus on transparency, | ||
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| + | LEDE’s stated goals were: | ||
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| + | * 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. | ||
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| + | The formation of the LEDE project was decided to solve long standing issues that were deemed unfixable from within the OpenWrt project/ | ||
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| + | - Number of active core developers at an all time low, no process for getting more new people involved. | ||
| + | - Unreliable infrastructure, | ||
| + | - Lack of communication, | ||
| + | - Not enough people with commit access to handle the incoming flow of patches, too little attention to testing and regular builds. | ||
| + | - Lack of focus on stability and documentation. | ||
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| + | To address these issues, the LEDE project was set up in a different way compared to OpenWrt: | ||
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| + | - All communication channels are public, some read-only to non-members to maintain a good signal-to-noise ratio. | ||
| + | - Decision making process is more open, with an approximate 50/50 mix of developers and power users with voting rights. | ||
| + | - Infrastructure is simplified a lot, to ensure that it creates less maintenance work for us. | ||
| + | - More liberal merge policy, based on our experience with the OpenWrt package github feed. | ||
| + | - Strong focus on automated testing combined with a simplified release process. | ||
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| + | ===== Announcing the OpenWrt/ | ||
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| + | As of January 2018, both the OpenWrt and LEDE projects agreed to re-merge back under the OpenWrt name. | ||
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| + | The new, unified OpenWrt project is governed under the [[: | ||
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| + | ==== Joint future ==== | ||
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| + | {{: | ||
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| + | Old pre-15.05 OpenWrt CC releases are not supported by the merged project anymore, leaving them without any future security or bug fixes. The OpenWrt CC 15.05 release series did receive a limited amount of security and bug fixes, but due to its lacking integration in the release automation, no further binary image releases were made. | ||
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| + | The merged project uses the code base of the former LEDE project. OpenWrt specific patches not present in the LEDE repository but meeting LEDEs code quality requirements got integrated into the new tree while the source code has been moved to [[https:// | ||
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| + | The remerged OpenWrt project is legally represented by the [[https:// | ||
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| + | Infrastructure formerly available under the lede-project.org domain has been mostly moved to corresponding openwrt.org subdomains and redirects were put in place when appropriate. | ||
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| + | ===== Name ===== | ||
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| + | | {{: | ||
| + | | {{: | ||
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| + | ===== Meeting Logs ===== | ||
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| + | IRC meeting logs done during the LEDE fork can be viewed [[http:// | ||
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| + | [[meetings: | ||
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| + | ===== People ===== | ||
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| + | Here you can find an alphabetically ordered list of the current people involved in //OpenWrt// Project: | ||
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| + | <WRAP column> | ||
| + | ^ Developers | ||
| + | | Adrian Schmutzler | ||
| + | | Alexander Couzens | ||
| + | | Álvaro Fernández Rojas | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Baptiste Jonglez | ||
| + | | Christian Lamparter | ||
| + | | Christian Marangi | ||
| + | | Chuanhong Guo | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Daniel Golle | [[developers: | ||
| + | | David Woodhouse | ||
| + | | David Bauer | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Felix Fietkau | ||
| + | | Florian Fainelli | ||
| + | | Hans Dedecker | ||
| + | | Hauke Mehrtens | ||
| + | | Imre Kaloz | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Jo-Philipp Wich | [[developers: | ||
| + | | John Crispin | ||
| + | | Jonas Gorski | ||
| + | | Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant | ||
| + | | Koen Vandeputte | ||
| + | | Luka Perkov | ||
| + | | Mathias Kresin | ||
| + | | Matthias Schiffer | ||
| + | | Mirko Vogt | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Paul Spooren | ||
| + | | Petr Štetiar | ||
| + | | Piotr Dymacz | ||
| + | | Rafał Miłecki | ||
| + | | Rui Salvaterra | ||
| + | | Steven Barth | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Stijn Tintel | ||
| + | | Sungbo Eo | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Ted Hess | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Yousong Zhou | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Zoltan Herpai | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| + | <WRAP column> | ||
| + | ^ Wiki Documentation | ||
| + | | Thomas Endt | [[user: | ||
| + | | Rich Brown | richb-hanover | ||
| + | | Alberto Bursi | bobafetthotmail | ||
| + | </ | ||
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