A proposal to remerge OpenWrt and LEDE

It appears that the OpenWrt and LEDE communities are about to vote on a proposal covering many of the details behind merging the two projects (which forked one year ago) back together. The plan appears to be to go forward with the OpenWrt name, but with the LEDE repository; domain names would be transferred to SPI.

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From:		John Crispin <john-AT-phrozen.org>
To:		openwrt-devel-AT-lists.openwrt.org, LEDE Development List <lede-dev-AT-lists.infradead.org>, LEDE Project Administration <lede-adm-AT-lists.infradead.org>, OpenWrt Internal Developer List <openwrt-hackers-AT-lists.openwrt.org>
Subject:		openwrt and lede - remerge proposal
Date:		Mon, 8 May 2017 15:19:40 +0200
Message-ID:		<1df3c1a0-d673-94c0-7a3a-bd733196d24d@phrozen.org>
Archive-link:		Article

Hi,

Felix, Imre and myself had 2 calls last week lasting several hours and 
discussed the following proposal of conditions for a remerge that we 
would like to propose and have people vote on.

*) branding
- the owrt side sees no option of using the lede brand

- a (minor) majority voted for openwrt as a name over lede whilst most 
people said they did not care

- as the last vote had a 100% ACK for a remerge using the owrt brand is 
the only feasible option

*) domain
- transfer owner ship to SPI for openwrt.org and lede-project.org
- add them to the pool of urls at digital ocean
- post remerge build a setup where we have several DNS servers in 
various locations
- point git.openwrt.org at the lede git server
- point bugs.openwrt.org to the lede flyspray instance
- keep both wikis and forums as is (we should decide post remerge how to 
proceed to avoid these issues blocking the progress)
- update the lede domain entries for build/download/rsync/... servers so 
that the openwrt domain also points at them

*) SPI
- TBD post remerge

*) github
- stop pushing to lede-project organisation
- start pushing to the openwrt organisation
- cleanup the list of owners in the openwrt organisation
- obsolete all issues on the openwrt organisation and close the issue 
tracker
- go through the open openwrt and lede PRs, pickup whats useful and 
close the rest, asking people to repost (things wont be rebasable anyhow)
- close the lede PR tracker
- keep the lede organisation in its current state so that forked trees 
dont get obsoleted

- obsolete the lede github org after a grace period of 3-6 months

*) landing page
- update the lede landing page to represent the openwrt name
- update the landing page to have the same look & feel as the current 
openwrt landing page
- point openwrt.org at the lede landing page

*) trac
- trac is already readonly, keep content so that search engines can 
still find the it
- edit the trac html templates, adding a note pointing at the 
bug.openwrt.org instance

*) email accounts
- currently there are around ~20 active openwrt.org mail accounts
- turn all the webmaster@, hostmaster@, ... accounts into aliases that 
anyone with voting rights can be subscribed to
- ask those people that are no longer active to voluntarily give up 
their accounts
- mail addresses may under no conditions be used for any personal 
business, consultancy, applying for jobs, ... purposes

- any mail sent from an openwrt.org account needs to adhere the 
trademark policy and should only be used for FOSS purposes


*) wiki / forum
- TBD
- asking in either forum/wiki will get a biased vote so keep them both 
around
- start a separate discussion regarding these post remerge

*) LF
- find out what doubts folks have about LF
- find out benefits - we would have their hosting and sponsorship ?!
- start a separate discussion regarding these post remerge

*) git trees
- rebrand the lede tree to openwrt
- work out what has happened inside the openwrt tree since the reboot 
and pick up the useful bits (zoltan has done some prior work on this 
already)

*) mailing list
- ask david to add the openwrt-adm and openwrt lists
- announce the switch to the infradead serves, asking people to 
unsubscribe if they have privacy issues with this
- import the user DB from the current openwrt and lede ML into the 2 new 
mailing lists
- find out if we can redirect/auto-reply  the existing lists to the new ones

*) trademark/sponsorship policy
- review/ack imres trademark policy
- review/ack jows sponsorship policy

*) timeline
- refine / vote / agree on the proposal withing the next 2 week
- work on the action items in the 4 weeks after that

     John
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