project goals

[Bert Vermeulen]

Hi all,

Very happy to see this project reboot happening. An acknowledgement of the 
issues facing OpenWRT was long overdue. I'd like some clarity on some things 
that aren't explicitly mentioned in the stated goals, however.

First off, is the SVN nonsense definitely gone now? Will the LEDE project be 
all-git? I assume yes, but would really like to see this confirmed.

Secondly, the major technical problem OpenWRT faces IMHO has always been the 
ever-increasing technical debt. In this case this is carried in the form of 
a *gigantic* number of patches. There are patches for lots of packages, and 
even the kernel and U-boot. I count over 4700 of them in OpenWRT, 3842 in 
LEDE right now.

This is the sort of thing you expect to see in the internal repo of a 
company not yet convinced of the benefits of upstreaming; to see this 
carried in an open source project is downright shocking.

I propose to make it an official goal to carry no patches at all; everything 
should be upstreamed or dropped. That is the only policy that makes any 
sense at all.

Comments, opinions?


-- 
Bert Vermeulen
bert at biot.com