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-== About
+== Introducing the LEDE project - A reboot of the OpenWrt community
-The LEDE project was founded in April 2016 as an OpenWrt based spin off with a
-strong focus on transparency, user collaboration and decentralised structures.
+The LEDE project is founded as a spin-off of the OpenWrt project and shares many of the same goals.
+We are building an embedded Linux distribution that makes it easy for developers, system administrators or other Linux enthusiasts to build and customize software for embedded devices, especially wireless routers.
+The name 'LEDE' stands for 'Linux Embedded Development Environment'.
-For a long time the OpenWrt parent project experienced infrastructure issues
-and declining developer participation on the base system while the community
-driven package ecosystem around it continued to thrive. When the number of
-frequently active committers reached a new low in the beginning of 2016, some
-OpenWrt developers decided to start a new spin-off project in an attempt to
-change the development processes from the ground up and reboot the project in
-a new, community-driven way.
+Members of the project already include a significant share of the most active members of the OpenWrt community.
+We intend to bring new life to Embedded Linux development by creating a community with a strong focus on transparency, collaboration and decentralisation.
-=== Goals
+LEDE’s stated goals are:
-LEDE's stated goals are:
+* Building a great embedded Linux distribution with focus on stability and functionality.
+* Having regular, predictable release cycles coupled with community provided device testing feedback.
+* Establishing transparent decision processes with broad community participation and public meetings.
-. Building a great embedded distribution with focus on stability and
- functionality.
-. Having regular, predictable release cycles coupled with community provided
- device testing feedback.
-. Establishing transparent decision processes with broad community
- participation and public meetings.
+We decided to create this new project because of long standing issues that we were unable to fix from within the OpenWrt project/community:
-=== Name
+. Number of active core developers at an all time low, no process for getting more new people involved.
+. Unreliable infrastructure, fixes prevented by internal disagreements and single points of failure.
+. Lack of communication, transparency and coordination in the OpenWrt project, both inside the core team and between the core team and the rest of the community.
+. Not enough people with commit access to handle the incoming flow of patches, too little attention to testing and regular builds.
+. Lack of focus on stability and documentation.
-image:logo/logo.png["The LEDE logo",role="left"]
-The name _LEDE_ is an abbreviation for Linux Embedded Development Environment,
-a reference to its flexibility and embedded buildroot origins, making it a
-solid choice for embedded Linux applications far beyond the wireless router
-and network appliance realm.
+To address these issues we set up the LEDE project in a different way compared to OpenWrt:
-_LEDE_ is also an alternation of the phrase _to lead_, describing
-an introductory section of a news story that is intended to entice the reader
-to read the full story.
+. All our communication channels are public, some read-only to non-members to maintain a good signal-to-noise ratio.
+. Our decision making process is more open, with an approximate 50/50 mix of developers and power users with voting rights.
+. Our infrastructure is simplified a lot, to ensure that it creates less maintenance work for us.
+. We have made our merge policy more liberal, based on our experience with the OpenWrt package github feed.
+. We have a strong focus on automated testing combined with a simplified release process.
=== Endorsement
The *Wrt community is made up of many great communities all tinkering on their
-own mission in improving something on this planet. the Following communities have
-kindly decided to endorse our project. Thanks !
+own mission in improving something on this planet. The Following communities have
+kindly decided to endorse this project. Thanks !
-. none so far :-)
+- image:logo/endorsements/qmp.png[qMp logo] http://qmp.cat/News/31_qMp_endorses_the_LEDE_project["qMp endoreses the LEDE project"]
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