[LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

[Val Kulkov]

On 12 May 2017 at 18:18, Fernando Frediani <fhfrediani at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the majority voted for the name OpenWRT what's the remaining issue then ?
>
> Fernando
>

22% voted for the name OpenWrt, to be exact. 5 votes out of 23. The
remaining issue IMO, if you are referring to the decision about the
name of the merged project, is whether the core team will give the
wider community an opportunity to be heard, and whether they would
listen.


> On 12 May 2017 23:40, "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"
>>
>>> 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
>>
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