[LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDE

[Giuseppe Lippolis]

> > When I decided where to port my contribution I considered the "focus 
> > on stability and functionality" more interesting than the "bleeding 
> > edge functionality", therefore I selected LEDE.
> > Now I understand that a merge is ongoing.
> > Can I ask to the people taking care about the merge how the 
> > trade-off between stability and bleeding edge is solved?
> 
> we did propose this as an idea, keep lede as the bleeding edge tree 
> and
use
> openwrt as the stable release tree with long term support. the openwrt
folks
> made it a condition for the merger that this may not be the case. i 
> think
the
> sentence used by the owrt folks was "merge to one project/tree or dont 
> merge"

This sentence doesn't sound very constructive. Anyhow:
I'm sure that the owrt folks have good reason to merge, It is a question of
transparencies, can they share with us these reasons?
And most important, what are they proposing to trade-off between stability
and bleeding edge?

In my opinion a conflict unsolved is simple an unsolved conflict. 
If the merge means restore the status before the split, the probability to
have a new split is high.
 
Therefore in absence of valid proposal  to trade-off, my advice is to
identify the perimeter where really make sense to merge and on the top of
this common base built two different project, one focused on the "stability"
and the second on the "bleeding edge".

> > At the end the market share will answer if a single product make 
> > sense or not.

Anyhow on this point I hope that the discussion can be transparent and
extended to the community.

Bye,
Giuseppe.