[LEDE-DEV] lede integration issues remaining from the detrius of cerowrt

[David Lang]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2016, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote:

> On Sun, 2016-06-19 at 12:35 -0700, David Lang wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Jun 2016, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 10:34 -0400, Aaron Z wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:03 AM, David Lang <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>>>>> With Imagebuilder and things pre-compiled, what does it take to create an
>>>>> image? I'm wondering if this is something that can be converted to a web UI
>>>>> where we could have someone select stuff (or upload a config file) and have
>>>>> the system spit out a custom tailored image a few seconds later.
>>>>>
>>>>> Something like this could do wonders to move people away from the 'base
>>>>> image must contain what I need' mentality.
>>>> Personally, I would like that (and wouldn't have a problem with
>>>> waiting a half hour or an hour for a build to be done).
>>>> For example, I don't need PPOE support on any of the hardware I use,
>>>> many of the devices don't have a USB port, so I don't need USB
>>>> support, its internal on an IPV4 network, so I don't need IPV6
>>>> support, it would be nice to have Nano installed by default (hard to
>>>> use vi over ssh from a phone that doesn't have an escape key :D).
>>>> But that's just the perspective of a end user/sysadmin who has been
>>>> using OpenWrt (and now LEDE) for 7-10 years.
>>>
>>> TBH I think the biggest reasons this hasn't already is:
>>>
>>> 1) People who want it don't care enough to work on it, or are the people
>>> who don't know how to work it and and can't/don't fund someone who does.
>>> 2) Infrastructure:  You need a server to host on and storage etc, and
>>> this costs money or donations.
>>
>> or don't know how to contribute funds to make something like this work.
>
> That's what I meant by can't (and I agree that having some means of
> hooking up community funders with community developers would be helpfu;
> kind of like prpl but for community).

I was calling out the difference between "I don't have money to contribute" and 
"I have money I could send, but I don't know who to give it to"

The first is something the project can't do anything about, the second will cost 
some effort (setting up the ability to receive donations and policies/processes 
to use the donations), but properly done (assuming people are willing to send 
money/equipment) could be a net win for the project.

David Lang