[OpenWrt-Devel] Introducing the LEDE project

Roman Yeryomin leroi.lists at gmail.com
Wed May 4 13:50:29 EDT 2016


On 4 May 2016 at 19:25, Kathy Giori <kathy.giori at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Jo-Philipp Wich <jow at openwrt.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we'd like to introduce LEDE, a reboot of the OpenWrt community
>> .
>>
>> The project is founded as a spin-off of the OpenWrt project and shares
>> many of the same goals.
>
> While I appreciate the enthusiasm, I do not see why you cannot apply
> these same "principles" of openness and transparency to the OpenWrt
> project. Makes no sense to me to branch the project. That simply
> divides the resources in the community into fewer numbers working on
> each fork.

Exactly, tearing down the project and community without any real
explanations (and plans to solve the stated issues) is just wrong.

> Also wearing my hat within the prpl Foundation, which is funded by
> industry sponsorships that in turn provides financial support for
> OpenWrt, no one I have spoken to in prpl understands the reason for
> this spin-off either. It'll cause more confusion and inefficiency in
> industry. prpl will stick with OpenWrt, and I expect most companies
> who follow and/or contribute to OpenWrt will stick with it too.
>
> kathy
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