Re: [LEDE-DEV] [RFC] A new developper documentation for OpenWrt/LEDE

2017-11-05 Thread Rich Brown
Hi all, Although I'm not a developer, as someone who cares a lot about documentation, I have a couple thoughts about this proposal. 1) "Throw out all the old stuff, and start fresh." It's easy to propose, and maybe even a good idea. But it's worth asking why don't we already have good dev docs

Re: [LEDE-DEV] web->wiki switch - short glitch in the matrix

2016-11-29 Thread Rich Brown
Folks, This seems to be working perfectly (I did *not* stay up to see if there would be a glitch). www.lede-project.org and wiki.lede-project.org now lead to the same site. Thanks for all who pitched in. Rich > On Nov 29, 2016, at 3:42 AM, John Crispin wrote: > > Hi, > > we will change DNS

[LEDE-DEV] Criteria for first LEDE stable release?

2016-12-15 Thread Rich Brown
To LEDE-adm and LEDE-dev, A discussion about the criteria for a first stable LEDE release came up on the Forum at: https://forum.lede-project.org/t/criteria-for-first-lede-stable-release/552 Please add your thoughts. Thanks. ___ Lede-dev mailing list

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Release planning

2016-12-22 Thread Rich Brown
Is it too soon to begin identifying/enumerating the features/packages that will go into the 17.01 release? Thanks. Rich ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

[LEDE-DEV] Release Planning - Current Status?

2017-01-02 Thread Rich Brown
If I remember correctly, there was a window for submitting updates for the initial Release Candidate. Where does that process stand? ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

[LEDE-DEV] Draft LEDE home page available

2017-01-02 Thread Rich Brown
The website team has been working on the LEDE Project site to prepare it for a blast of new readers who will come when we make the first release. We think it's in pretty good shape, but would welcome comments from the community. Draft home page: https://lede-project.org/playground/start2 Draft

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Release Planning - Current Status?

2017-01-02 Thread Rich Brown
Hi Jo, > there hasn't been much progress on the planning since I didn't follow > any mails for the last week or so :) > > I plan to factor in the various suggestions into the roadmap I initially > posted and put the result into the wiki tomorrow. Excellent! Once that's public, we can spread the

Re: [LEDE-DEV] LEDE 17.01 branched

2017-01-17 Thread Rich Brown
> On Jan 16, 2017, at 1:37 PM, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: > > this is just a heads-up to inform you that LEDE master has been branched > into a new branch "lede-17.01" now. And a hearty congratulations to everyone who helped get us this far. Thanks! I haven't seen these discussed anywhere, but I t

Re: [LEDE-DEV] LEDE 17.01 branched/Release Notes improving

2017-01-18 Thread Rich Brown
> On Jan 16, 2017, at 1:37 PM, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: > > this is just a heads-up to inform you that LEDE master has been branched > into a new branch "lede-17.01" now. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Release Notes. Here's the current state: If you think something's missing, plea

[LEDE-DEV] LEDE-17.01 Final Release Notes available

2017-01-27 Thread Rich Brown
Since no changes have occurred to the release notes in the last 5 days, I assume they are complete and final. If you wish to prove me wrong, please send me a note, or update them directly at: https://lede-project.org/playground/draft-release-notes I have pasted the current text below for your

[LEDE-DEV] Finding Release snapshots/URLs for the "Release"

2017-01-27 Thread Rich Brown
A couple questions about the release images and what we want to call them: 1) When I got to downloads.lede-project.org, I see the following directory structure: ../ releases/ packages/17.01/ ... snapshots/ faillogs/ packages/ targets/ I do NOT see any targets under the /releas

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Finding Release snapshots/URLs for the "Release"

2017-01-28 Thread Rich Brown
Hi Jo, Thanks for all this information. I'll propagate it to the forum, since many people are asking. > On Jan 28, 2017, at 9:35 AM, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: > > Hi Rich, > >> 1) When I got to downloads.lede-project.org, I see the following >> directory structure: [...] I do NOT see any targets

Re: [LEDE-DEV] LEDE-17.01 Final Release Notes available

2017-01-28 Thread Rich Brown
Hi Jaap, > On Jan 28, 2017, at 6:36 AM, Jaap Buurman wrote: > > Great job on the release notes! One minor thing that I think looks > nicer would be the removal of "nothing specific" after "improved > performance", since it adds no additional information. But that's just > me. Thanks for the kin

[LEDE-DEV] Release Candidate Test Plan - first draft

2017-01-30 Thread Rich Brown
Folks, There have been a couple questions on the forum about what needs to be tested in the LEDE release candidate. I put together a draft of a note that lists how to install, what to test, and how to report problems. It's at: https://lede-project.org/playground/releasecandidatetestplan Comme

Re: [LEDE-DEV] LEDE-17.01 Final Release Notes available

2017-02-01 Thread Rich Brown
Update on the release documentation. There's a new top-level page to describe Release Builds at: https://lede-project.org/releases/start jow has updated and coalesced the release documentation into a single directory at /releases/17.01 You can read the improved documents at: Overview: https://l

[LEDE-DEV] Is there a location for utility scripts?

2017-02-01 Thread Rich Brown
A multi-part question: 1) Does the LEDE community have any favorite scripts that might be included in the basic LEDE distribution? For example, I wrote a "getstats.sh" script (https://github.com/richb-hanover/OpenWrtScripts/blob/master/getstats.sh) that collects a consistent set of informatio

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Is there a location for utility scripts?

2017-02-01 Thread Rich Brown
> On Feb 1, 2017, at 12:25 PM, Ben Greear wrote: > > On 02/01/2017 09:13 AM, Rich Brown wrote: >> A multi-part question: >> >> 1) Does the LEDE community have any favorite scripts that might be included >> in the basic LEDE distribution? >> >>

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Is there a location for utility scripts?

2017-02-02 Thread Rich Brown
Hi Ben, > On Feb 2, 2017, at 8:54 AM, Ben Greear wrote: > > I think you would have to make a new LEDE package to allow users to choose > your script > to be included at compile time so that it is available on the FS. > > Or possibly, it is worth extending ct-bugcheck to have your tool in it an

[LEDE-DEV] Congratulations on 17.01.0...

2017-02-22 Thread Rich Brown
To all who devoted so much effort into rolling out LEDE 17.01.0... This has been a monumental project, requiring thousands of updates, bug fixes, and serious re-designing of so many parts of the code base and build machinery. I also thank those who worked to create the supporting infrastructure

[LEDE-DEV] Getting started with LEDE?

2016-07-12 Thread Rich Brown
Hi folks, [This is a followup to my Getting Started issue on github (https://github.com/lede-project/web/issues/18) I suspect this is a better place to ask questions than on github...] I'm screwing up my courage to install LEDE on a router at home. As I promised in the github issue, once I ge

[LEDE-DEV] Update - Re: Getting started with LEDE?

2016-07-19 Thread Rich Brown
Update: I had good success getting LEDE installed on two routers (Netgear WNDR3800 and mqmaker WiTi Router). Based on that experience, I created a "Getting Started with LEDE" page that could become the home page of the Documentation section. I submitted a PR for review and (hopefully) incorpora

[LEDE-DEV] hnet-full & LEDE: bug report

2016-07-19 Thread Rich Brown
I have always wanted to try out homenet. In light of the recommendation expressed in http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2016-July/001772.html, it looks as if LEDE would be a good platform for further experimentation. I followed Tore Anderson's excellent instructions at: https://blo

Re: [LEDE-DEV] lede forum

2016-07-26 Thread Rich Brown
Folks, I was planning to advocate for a forum as well. I have enjoyed using the Discourse forum (http://discourse.org) with several projects. (If you haven't seen it, it's a new forum system, designed by people who have used lots of bad ones, and intend to fix those problems.) I have some exper

Re: [LEDE-DEV] lede forum

2016-07-26 Thread Rich Brown
Folks, I was planning to advocate for a forum as well. I have enjoyed using the Discourse forum (http://discourse.org) with several projects. (If you haven't seen it, it's a new forum system, designed by people who have used lots of bad ones, and intend to fix those problems.) I have some exper

Re: [LEDE-DEV] lede forum

2016-07-27 Thread Rich Brown
Another thought: I strongly recommend that any forum software we choose support Markdown. BBcode was astonishing in the last 90's when it first came out. But requiring BBcode to to make decent formatting for messages is a big disincentive 15 years later. Rich _

Re: [LEDE-DEV] lede forum

2016-07-27 Thread Rich Brown
> On Jul 27, 2016, at 4:06 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > >>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Brown writes: > > Rich> Another thought: I strongly recommend that any forum software we > Rich> choose support Markdown. BBcode was astonishing in the last 90'

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] latency on PPPoA ADSL Annex A on using Lantiq

2016-08-04 Thread Rich Brown
Hi Daniel, (I feel like a one-trick pony here, but...) Could this be bufferbloat? Maybe not, but here's how to test: Use the procedure for "A Quick Test for Bufferbloat" at https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki/Tests_for_Bufferbloat/#a-quick-test-for-bufferbloat Watch to see if the

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Documentation for router support means the famous Table of Hardware

2016-09-08 Thread Rich Brown
advocate that we set up: 1) A Wiki that serves as documentation for LEDE 2) A Forum that lets the community talk to each other I'll talk about each in their own threads, so each conversation can continue on its own. Thanks. Rich Brown _

[LEDE-DEV] A Wiki for LEDE Documentation

2016-09-08 Thread Rich Brown
documentation systems. If we decide to reserve edit permission for top-level pages to certain admins, we can leave the rest of the pages open to any logged-in member. Thanks for listening. Rich Brown PS To those who advocate choosing a different wiki system, please include in your proposal an

[LEDE-DEV] A Forum for LEDE Project

2016-09-09 Thread Rich Brown
named in the original "forum thread" in the list starting at: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2016-July/001996.html most of those listed seem to have a feel of "we've always done it this way". None seems to offer all the good at

Re: [LEDE-DEV] LEDE Wiki Teambuilding

2016-09-19 Thread Rich Brown
ToH maintainer, Gardener, Editor N.N.wiki admin / enabler / maintenance ToH maintainer Alberto Bursi (alberto.bu...@outlook.it) Editor, Gardener Rich Brown (richb.hano...@gmail.com) Editor, Gardener, and maybe maintenance ---

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [wiki]Wiki structure proposals and some questions

2016-10-01 Thread Rich Brown
I posted some thoughts about how the wiki navigation might work on the ToDo page at: https://wiki.lede-project.org/talk:to_do_list Comments please! Rich ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [wiki]Wiki structure proposals and some questions

2016-10-02 Thread Rich Brown
Two items re: wiki 1) I finished importing the entire www.lede-project.org site into the wiki. You can see the current (draft) pages at: https://wiki.lede-project.org/playground:experiment:docs:start 2) I added a comment about potential organization at: https://wiki.lede-project.org/talk:to_do

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [wiki]Wiki structure proposals and some questions

2016-10-06 Thread Rich Brown
The "experimental" section of the Wiki now substantially clones the entire web presence of www.lede-project.org. See the update info at: https://wiki.lede-project.org/talk:to_do_list Rich ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://li

Re: [LEDE-DEV] 18.05 status

2018-04-17 Thread Rich Brown
The question has come up on the forums about the status of a 18.05 release. Back on 1 April 2018, Hauke wrote: > I would propose this timeline: > 1. Branch of openwrt-18.05 at 7. April > 2. Create openwrt-18.05-rc1 release on 14. April > 3. Create openwrt-18.05-rc2 release on 28. April > 4. Creat

[LEDE-DEV] 18.06 Status?

2018-05-01 Thread Rich Brown
Hi folks, It has been exactly a month since Hauke sent his note recommending a release process for the next OpenWrt stable. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2018-April/011704.html I have not seen any further discussion of this proposal. Given that the OpenWrt/LEDE merger was found