On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 13:25 +0200, Steven Barth wrote: > Hello Developers, > > it has been some time since our latest stable release, so we are > currently busy preparing the first RC for Barrier Breaker. But before we > want to do the actual builds we need to take care of the packages feed > which has been neglected for a quite a while. A lot of packages are > abandoned, some are broken, unusable or worse so we think its time for a > fresh start. We know and acknowledge there are patches for some of them > but we don't have the manpower to review all the patches to a reasonable > extent and offer support for all of them. > > In a recent meeting we therefore decided to abandon the current packages > feed as is and start off with a new github repository for the overall > package feeds. We will grant everyone who is currently maintaining > packages push rights there and will gladly invite other reliable > contributors. So if you want to collaborate, please open tickets for > bugs and send pull requests to this new github repository > and get in touch with us for getting write-access to the feed. > The new repository is located here: https://github.com/openwrt/packages
btw. What is the policy on pushing on that repository? Should be commits restricted to the maintained packages or extend to any possible package? For example I've added ddns-scripts (copied from the previous repository as I needed it). > After some time we will adjust the feeds.conf to this new feed. I think the sooner the better, as there are still patches going on for the old repository and as it is there is no incentive to switch to the new. Maybe early switching would speed the process up of porting old packages. regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
