[LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

[Val Kulkov]

On 12 May 2017 at 17:40, David Lang <david at lang.hm> wrote:
> 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"
>

David, please see the exact question here:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-adm/2017-March/000436.html


>> 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.

The majority? There was a tie. Please see the above link.

>
>> 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.

No. This is incorrect. Please see the above link.

>
> David Lang