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| - | ====== About the LEDE project ====== | + | ====== About the OpenWrt/LEDE project ====== |
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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, | ||
| ===== A reboot of the OpenWrt community ===== | ===== A reboot of the OpenWrt community ===== | ||
| - | The LEDE project | + | In 2016, the LEDE project |
| - | Members of the project | + | Members of the project |
| - | LEDE’s stated goals are: | + | LEDE’s stated goals were: |
| * Build a great embedded Linux distribution with focus on stability and functionality. | * Build a great embedded Linux distribution with focus on stability and functionality. | ||
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| * Establish transparent decision processes with broad community participation and public meetings. | * 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/ | + | The formation of the LEDE project was decided to solve long standing issues that were deemed unfixable |
| - 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 | + | To address these issues, the LEDE project |
| - | - All our communication channels are public, some read-only to non-members to maintain a good signal-to-noise ratio. | + | - All communication channels are public, some read-only to non-members to maintain a good signal-to-noise ratio. |
| - | - Our decision | + | - Decision |
| - | - Our infrastructure | + | - Infrastructure |
| - | - We have made our merge policy | + | - More liberal |
| - | - We have a strong | + | - Strong |
| - | ===== Name ===== | + | ===== Announcing the OpenWrt/ |
| - | | {{wiki: | + | As of January 2018, both the OpenWrt and LEDE projects agreed |
| - | ===== Project Meetings ===== | + | The new, unified OpenWrt project is governed under the [[: |
| - | We attempt to have regular IRC meetings to discuss and decide project matters. | + | ==== Joint future ==== |
| - | ==== Next Meeting ==== | + | {{: |
| - | The next meeting date is yet to be decided. | + | Old pre-15.05 OpenWrt CC releases are not supported by the merged project anymore, leaving them without any future security or bug fixes. |
| - | For the agenda | + | The merged project uses the code base of the former LEDE project. OpenWrt specific patches not present in the LEDE repository but meeting |
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| + | The remerged OpenWrt project is legally represented by the [[https://www.spi-inc.org/|Software in the Public Interest (SPI)]] - an US 501< | ||
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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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| ===== Meeting Logs ===== | ===== Meeting Logs ===== | ||
| - | All meeting logs can be viewed [[http:// | + | IRC meeting logs done during the LEDE fork can be viewed [[http:// |
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| + | [[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 |
| - | | Florian Fainelli | + | | Christian Lamparter |
| - | | Hans Dedecker | + | | Christian Marangi |
| - | | Hauke Mehrtens | + | | Chuanhong Guo | [[developers: |
| - | | Jo-Philipp Wich | jow | + | | Daniel Golle |
| - | | John Crispin | + | | David Woodhouse |
| - | | Jonas Gorski | + | | David Bauer | [[developers: |
| - | | Luka Perkov | + | | Felix Fietkau |
| - | | Mathias Kresin | + | | Florian Fainelli |
| - | | Matthias Schiffer | + | | Hans Dedecker |
| - | | Mirko Vogt | mirko | + | | Hauke Mehrtens |
| - | | Piotr Dymacz | + | | Imre Kaloz | [[developers: |
| - | | Rafał Miłecki | + | | Jo-Philipp Wich | [[developers: |
| - | | Steven Barth | cyrus | + | | John Crispin |
| - | | Stijn Tintel | + | | Jonas Gorski |
| - | | Ted Hess | thess | + | | Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant |
| - | | Yousong Zhou | + | | Koen Vandeputte |
| + | | Luka Perkov | ||
| + | | Mathias Kresin | ||
| + | | Matthias Schiffer | ||
| + | | Mirko Vogt | ||
| + | | Paul Spooren | ||
| + | | Petr Štetiar | ||
| + | | Piotr Dymacz | ||
| + | | Rafał Miłecki | ||
| + | | Rui Salvaterra | ||
| + | | Steven Barth | ||
| + | | Stijn Tintel | ||
| + | | Sungbo Eo | [[developers: | ||
| + | | Ted Hess | ||
| + | | Yousong Zhou | ||
| + | | Zoltan Herpai | ||
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