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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: | ||
| - | To address these issues we set up the LEDE project in a different way compared | + | - All communication channels are public, some read-only to non-members to maintain |
| + | - 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 | ||
| + | - Strong focus on automated testing combined with a simplified release process. | ||
| + | ===== Announcing the OpenWrt/ | ||
| - | - All our communication channels are public, some read-only to non-members to maintain a good signal-to-noise ratio. | + | As of January 2018, both the OpenWrt |
| - | - 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. | + | |
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| - | - We have a strong focus on automated testing combined with a simplified release process. | + | |
| + | The new, unified OpenWrt project is governed under the [[: | ||
| + | ==== Joint future ==== | ||
| + | {{: | ||
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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. | ||
| ===== 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// Project: | + | Here you can find an alphabetically ordered list of the current people involved in //OpenWrt// Project: |
| <WRAP column> | <WRAP column> | ||
| - | ^Developers | + | ^ Developers |
| - | |Alexander Couzens | + | | Adrian Schmutzler |
| - | |Álvaro Fernández Rojas|noltari | + | | Alexander Couzens |
| - | |Daniel Golle |dangole | + | | Álvaro Fernández Rojas |
| - | |Felix Fietkau | + | | Baptiste Jonglez |
| - | |Hauke Mehrtens | + | | Christian Lamparter |
| - | |Jo-Philipp Wich | + | | Christian Marangi |
| - | |John Crispin | + | | Chuanhong Guo | [[developers: |
| - | |Jonas Gorski | + | | Daniel Golle |
| - | |Matthias Schiffer | + | | David Woodhouse |
| - | |Rafał Miłecki | + | | David Bauer | [[developers: |
| - | |Steven Barth |cyrus | + | | Felix Fietkau |
| - | |Stijn Tintel | + | | Florian Fainelli |
| - | |Ted Hess |thess | + | | 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 | ||
| + | | Stijn Tintel | ||
| + | | Sungbo Eo | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Ted Hess | ||
| + | | Yousong Zhou | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Zoltan Herpai | ||
| </ | </ | ||
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| <WRAP column> | <WRAP column> | ||
| - | ^Wiki Documentation | + | ^ Wiki Documentation |
| - | |Thomas Endt | + | | Thomas Endt | [[user:tmomas|tmomas]] |
| - | |Rich Brown | + | | Rich Brown |
| - | |Alberto Bursi | + | | Alberto Bursi | bobafetthotmail |
| </ | </ | ||
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