[LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal V3

[Matthias Schiffer]

On 05/29/2017 09:03 AM, John Crispin wrote:
> (resend, this time as plain text)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> here is a V3 of the remerge proposal, I tried to fold all the comments
> people made into it, if anything is missing let me know. Please remeber
> that post remerge anything can be voted on, so cluttering the proposal with
> many details will delay the remerge even more.
> 
> Ideally we manage to vote during this week.
> 
> 
>         John

The proposal looks very good, and I think all important points have been
discussed over the last weeks. So that's an ACK from my side.

Matthias


> 
> *) rules
> - owrt will adopt the lede rules and voting system
> 
> *) branding
> - the owrt side sees no option of using the lede brand
> - a (minor) majority voted for openwrt as a name over lede whilst most
> people said they did not care
> - as the last vote had a 100% ACK for a remerge using the owrt brand is the
> only feasible option
> 
> *) domain
> - transfer owner ship to SPI for openwrt.org and lede-project.org
> - add them to the pool of urls at digital ocean
> - post remerge build a setup where we have several DNS servers in various
> locations
> - point git.openwrt.org at the lede git server
> - point bugs.openwrt.org to the lede flyspray instance
> - keep both wikis and forums as is (we should decide post remerge how to
> proceed to avoid these issues blocking the progress)
> - update the lede domain entries for build/download/rsync/... servers so
> that the openwrt domain also points at them
> 
> *) SPI
> - nominate a new liaison team (imre and john offer to do this, if anyone
> else is interested let us know)
> - inform SPI of the new liaisons, voters and project rules
> - this should be done early in the remerge process s.t. the domains can be
> handed over
> 
> *) github
> - start pushing to the openwrt organisation
> - cleanup the list of owners in the openwrt organisation
> - obsolete all issues on the openwrt organisation and close the issue tracker
> - go through the open openwrt and lede PRs, pickup whats useful and close
> the rest, asking people to repost (things wont be rebasable anyhow)
> - close the lede PR tracker
> - obsolete the lede github org after a grace period of 3-6 months
> 
> *) landing page
> - add a letter of intent / notice to both current landing pages announcing
> the remerge
> - update the lede landing page to represent the openwrt name
> - update the landing page to have the same look & feel as the current
> openwrt landing page
> - point openwrt.org at the lede landing page
> - try to find some design guru that will transform the owrt theme to one
> appropriate to this century
> 
> *) trac
> - trac is already readonly, keep content so that search engines can still
> find the it
> - edit the trac html templates, adding a note pointing at the
> bug.openwrt.org instance
> 
> *) IRC
> - add back cloaking
> - give people channel ownership/admin rights
> 
> *) email accounts
> - currently there are around ~20 active openwrt.org mail accounts (the 3
> owrt devs would like to keep theirs active)
> - turn all the webmaster@, hostmaster@, ... accounts into aliases that
> anyone with voting rights can be subscribed to
> - ask those people that are no longer active to voluntarily give up their
> accounts
> - mail addresses may under no conditions be used for any personal business,
> consultancy, applying for jobs, ... purposes
> - any mail sent from an openwrt.org account needs to adhere the trademark
> policy and should only be used for FOSS purposes
> 
> *) wiki / forum
> - TBD
> - asking in either forum/wiki will get a biased vote so keep them both around
> - start a separate discussion regarding these post remerge
> 
> *) LF
> - find out what doubts folks have about LF
> - find out benefits - we would have their hosting and sponsorship ?!
> - start a separate discussion regarding these post remerge
> 
> *) git trees
> - rebrand the lede tree to openwrt
> - work out what has happened inside the openwrt tree since the reboot and
> pick up the useful bits (zoltan has done some prior work on this already)
> 
> *) mailing list
> - ask david to add the openwrt-adm and openwrt lists
> - send out invitation mails to the new list
> - setup redirect/auto-reply for the existing lists
> 
> *) trademark policy
> - review/ack imres trademark policy (https://openwrt.org/trademark)
> 
> *) timeline
> - vote / agree on the proposal within the next week
> - work on the action items in the 4 weeks after that
> 
>     John

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