[LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

[David Lang]

On Fri, 12 May 2017, Val Kulkov wrote:

> I should also note that it is extremely important to ask the right
> question. You get what you ask for. Apparently, the developers voted
> on this question: "Re-brand LEDE to OpenWrt?" (see the link above)
> IMHO the question should have been "Should the merged project be
> called OpenWrt?"

the vote was not "should lede be re-branded", it was "what should the merged 
project be named"

> Because the issue is not whether to re-brand LEDE to OpenWrt, the
> issue is the whether the merged project should retain the old name
> that quite a few people consider to be tainted now.

yes, there are some people who hold very strong opinions on the topic, but the 
vote was held and the majority voted for the name openwrt.

> I hope that the developers who voted on the question "re-brand LEDE to
> OpenWrt" should at least consider voting on "should the merged project
> be called OpenWrt" before the final decision on the name of the merged
> project is made.

they already voted on exactly that question.

David Lang