[LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

[Daniel Engberg]

Hi,

Great seeing progress being made!

I read the proposal and think it's overall good but I think some things 
should should have a slightly more direct approach.

Domain:
I might be misunderstanding here but why not reach out to gandi.net for 
providing DNS servers instead of maintaining it by yourself?
https://www.gandi.net/supports/

When you decide to merge, obsolete the LEDE-domains as quickly as 
possible. Having multiple working URLs is just going to slow down the 
migration in the end.

Github:
Deprecate LEDE repo as soon as possible, having multiple trees isn't 
going to be beneficial for anyone in the end. Preferably do a code 
freeze (tree) and merge/review all open PRs and reject new ones until 
all are reviewed and processed. That's probably a nicer way of handing 
contributions rather than asking everyone to resubmit for both trees.

A way for handing code submission/patches needs to be in place before 
unfreezing the tree, the current LEDE way of multiple unsynced code 
submission paths isn't very efficient. While I do understand that some 
prefer patchwork it's not ideal and I think it's safe to say that having 
something more user friendly certainly is beneficial in general. I know 
that some doesn't like Github however submissions should be synced for 
both platforms in some way or perhaps start using something like 
Phabricator might be a good tradeoff?

Trac:
Is it really worth keeping trac at all? What value does it add? Just 
display a page explaining that it's shutdown and forward to OpenWrt?

Wiki:
Do a freeze, continue using the LEDE one and let 
maintainers/contributors review and merge useful information from the 
OpenWrt (a lot is dated/inaccurate) and close the OpenWrt one.

Forums:
Let active maintainers/moderators decide which to use, freeze the old 
one and add a banner at the top of each page. Grace period ~1w or so

Best regads,
Daniel Engberg