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| - | ====== About the LEDE project ====== | + | ====== About the OpenWrt/LEDE project ====== |
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| - | ===== A reboot of the OpenWrt | + | ===== What is OpenWrt? ===== |
| - | The LEDE project is founded as a spin-off | + | Instead of trying to create |
| + | ===== A reboot of the OpenWrt community ===== | ||
| - | Members of the project | + | In 2016, the LEDE project |
| + | 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, | ||
| - | LEDE’s stated goals are: | + | LEDE’s stated goals were: |
| + | * 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. | ||
| - | * Building a great embedded Linux distribution with focus on stability and functionality. | + | The formation of the LEDE project was decided to solve long standing issues that were deemed unfixable |
| - | * Having regular, predictable release cycles coupled with community provided device testing feedback. | + | |
| - | * Establishing transparent decision processes with broad community participation and public meetings. | + | |
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| - | We decided to create this new project because of long standing issues that we were unable to fix from within the OpenWrt project/ | + | |
| - Number of active core developers at an all time low, no process for getting more new people involved. | - Number of active core developers at an all time low, no process for getting more new people involved. | ||
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| - Lack of focus on stability and documentation. | - Lack of focus on stability and documentation. | ||
| + | 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 [[: | ||
| - | To address these issues we set up the LEDE project in a different way compared to OpenWrt: | + | ==== Joint future ==== |
| + | {{: | ||
| - | | + | Old pre-15.05 OpenWrt CC releases |
| - | - Our decision making process is more open, with an approximate 50/50 mix of developers | + | |
| - | - Our infrastructure is simplified a lot, to ensure that it creates less maintenance work for us. | + | |
| - | - We have made our merge policy more liberal, based on our experience with the OpenWrt package github feed. | + | |
| - | - We have a strong focus on automated testing combined with a simplified | + | |
| + | 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:// | ||
| + | The remerged OpenWrt project is legally represented by the [[https:// | ||
| + | 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. | ||
| ===== Name ===== | ===== Name ===== | ||
| - | | + | | {{:wiki: |
| + | | {{: | ||
| + | ===== Meeting Logs ===== | ||
| + | IRC meeting logs done during the LEDE fork can be viewed [[http:// | ||
| + | [[meetings: | ||
| ===== People ===== | ===== People ===== | ||
| - | Here you can find an alphabetically ordered list of the current people involved in //LEDE// development: | + | Here you can find an alphabetically ordered list of the current people involved in //OpenWrt// Project: |
| + | <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 | ||
| + | | Sander Vanheule | ||
| + | | Steven Barth | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Stijn Tintel | ||
| + | | Sungbo Eo | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Ted Hess | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Yousong Zhou | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Zoltan Herpai | ||
| + | </ | ||
| - | ^Real Name ^Nickname ^ | + | <WRAP column> |
| - | |Alexander Couzens | + | ^ Wiki Documentation |
| - | |Álvaro Fernández Rojas|noltari | + | | Thomas Endt |
| - | |Daniel Golle |dangole | + | | Rich Brown | richb-hanover |
| - | |Felix Fietkau | + | | Alberto Bursi |
| - | |Hauke Mehrtens | + | </ |
| - | |Jo-Philipp Wich | + | |
| - | |John Crispin | + | |
| - | |Jonas Gorski | + | |
| - | |Matthias Schiffer | + | |
| - | |Rafał Miłecki | + | |
| - | |Steven Barth |cyrus | + | |
| - | |Stijn Tintel | + | |
| - | |Ted Hess |thess | + | |