[OpenWrt-Devel] Why ath79 has been made source-only on 19.07?

[Vincent Wiemann]

I remember it was decided that:
1. 19.07 will be the last release where image generation is turned on for ar71xx (oldstable-style).
2. Because of that nor more pull-requests for ar71xx were accepted but fixes.
3. 19.07 will be the last release where image generation is turned on for tiny devices
   and 32 MB RAM devices.
4. Pull-requests for Tiny ath79 devices will still be accepted if they're clean.
5. There will be no kernel updates for ar71xx (which was later withdrawn), because
   the next release should contain ath79 and people should be emphasized to port them to ath79

So now you have emphasized people to port devices to ath79 and you've even stopped them from
working on ar71xx more than once and now you want to release the next stable version only with something
that nobody was allowed to do maintenance on/which is basically 18.06 with a slightly newer kernel?
This does not make sense. For most people it was clear, that 19.07 will have images for ar71xx and ath79.

Regards,

Vincent Wiemann

On 30.07.19 21:40, James Campbell wrote:
> Can we not have a way of including unstable stuff in a way the consumers know it’s un stable ?
> 
> Like a 19.07 canary 
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 20:22, Andreas Ziegler <ml at andreas-ziegler.de <mailto:ml at andreas-ziegler.de>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Dmitry Tunin schrieb am 30.07.19 um 14:29:
>     > Are you taking in account that many devices added during the last year
>     > as ath79 won't be supported by a stable release.
>     > Master is no good now for normal use. That will mean that for the next
>     > year or so many users will require custom 19.07 builds.
>     > That doesn't sound very good.
>     >
>     > Initially ath79 was expected in 19.07, but it appeared that not all
>     > devices have been ported from ar71xx. So we are not ready to drop
>     > ar71xx, but we are ready to support ath79.
> 
>     to me, this is the only big negative thing here.
>     everyone was told, that new devices have to go into ath79 - and now we
>     will have a new release, lacking binaries for many many new devices
>     because new device support in ar71xx was not welcome.
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