I'm an outsider, have nothing to do with OpenWrt developement but still work on few projects which depend on OpenWrt as awesome project that enables us to do our projects (wifi mesh networking) but also do professional jobs for clients using OpenWrt as embedded os for lots of different applications.
We have "suffered" both on volunteers side (wifi mesh) and on professional side by infrastructure failing... mirrors, wiki, forum... you name it, all of it was down quite a lot in last few years, and on IRC or mailing list you couldn't get concrete and timely answers. This is a HUGE red flag for any size project. Also even if we hd really good developers who know what they were doing (I'm not that one) we couldn't get patches into trunk without knowing somebody in the inside circle who has commit access, so patches would get ignored... and kept in our own git... this is also a really huge red flag. I have convinced companies that I work for to donate money towards OpenWrt so you have some budget for infrastructure, and I'm sure that there are lots of other people who could also get some funding, but answers I got on IRC were really dissapointing - that there is now was to give donations towards better infrastructure or any other kind of collecting funds... These are all signs of poorly managed open source project/community and I welcome any change in any direction that aims to fix any of these issues... so fork away and make things better. Go LEDE team! _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
