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 About the LEDE project
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+== A reboot of the OpenWrt community
+
+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'.
+
+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.
+
+LEDE’s stated goals are:
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+* 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.
+
+We decided to create this new project because of long standing issues that we were unable to fix from within the OpenWrt project/community:
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+. 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.
+
+To address these issues we set up the LEDE project in a different way compared to OpenWrt:
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+. 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.
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 == Name
 
 image:logo/logo.png["The LEDE logo",role="left"]