On 2018-08-13 06:19 AM, Karl Palsson wrote: > "Daniel F. Dickinson" <csho...@thecshore.com> wrote: >> Posting on list as I think the discussion should include as >> folks as possible in the discussion. >> >> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/6745 >> >>> Especially when getting started with OpenWrt finding things in menuconfig >>> is complicated by the second level menus that are sometimes used and >>> sometimes not, even when the category exists. >>> >>> Further not everything fits neatly in a category. >>> >>> Finally when, years ago, I tried to improve the situation the above >>> resulted in titles that I think make it harder to find things (in >>> retrospect). >>> >>> Therefore I would like to do a mass removal of the second-level menus, >>> leaving only the broad top-level categories like 'net', and 'utlitiies'. >>> >>> Thoughts? > I agree that the earlier attempts at adding more categories was > probably unhelpful, and just required more places to try checking > for things. I think there's still room for _some_ second level > menus (all of the iotivity stuff is fine in it's own menu for > instance) , but they would need to have a "maintainer" of sorts, > to try and sheperd new packages into that menu. You're only > talking about the net/utilities/libraries trees right? > luci/languages/kernel are all well maintained. > > What I honestly think is the biggest missing thing sometimes is > proper package descriptions. > > I'd support undoing many of the nestings that were done, > especially under networking. Especially the vague ones like "file > transfer" and "bit torrent" and "download managers" and the > "routing" ""vpn" "wwan" "firewall tunnel > > Cheers, > Karl P Moving discussion back to https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/6745 since I got flack for suggesting the list as place to discuss it. I guess for thing where one wants to make sure of wider participation than those who happen to notice a particular GitHub issue is to post to this list with an pointer to the GitHub issue.
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