[OpenWrt-Hackers] Remerge coordinator required

[Florian Fainelli]

On 10/02/2017 11:49 AM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> On 10/02/2017 05:01 PM, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:48 PM, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/10/17 15:26, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello fellow devs,
>>>>
>>>> now that the domains are transferred and SPI liaison situation is
>>>> cleared up, we urgently need someone actively driving the project merger.
>>>>
>>>>  From what I can see, nobody among those voting for a remerge on the LEDE
>>>> side is currently actively pursuing that goal.
>>>>
>>>> I know that this is a spare time project and that people involved rather
>>>> invest their time in development and not management issues, but the way
>>>> I see it is that there simply will be no merge at all unless people
>>>> actually start working on it.
>>>>
>>>> Personally I lack the time and commitment to hold the strings but will
>>>> gladly help with implementing required changes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So please, someone step up and volunteer for the task coordination if
>>>> you wish the merger to succeed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jo
>>>>
>>> Hi Jo,
>>>
>>> thanks for the mail, I feel the same way. I wish I had the time to take care
>>> of the remerge, but i am unfortunately head under with work and real life
>>> atm. Hoping that one of the many folks that took such a big interest in the
>>> remerge will step up and start making it happen.
>>>
>>>     John
>>
>> Not that I am saying that I am eligible for this.
>> But I am interested in the remerge.
>>
>> What is entailed to doing the re-merge ?
>> Maybe a "Job Description" would help.
>>
>> AFAICT, it's:
>> * renaming the current OpenWrt to OpenWrt_old,
>> * renaming LEDE to OpenWrt
>> * diff, port stuff from OpenWrt to LEDE
>> * rename  lede-project.org to  openwrt.org
>> * redirect lede-project.org to openwrt.org
>> * diff old infrastructure with new infrastructure, and see what
>> remains & how to do a "old-page old links thing"
> 
> Sound good.
> 
>> Btw: it may be that this email is disregarded by lede-adm, since I
>> don't think I have rights to send to it.
>> But hope this helps a bit.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Alex

Hi Hauke,

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to take care about the repo merge.
> I will go trough the OpenWrt git repository and look for stuff that is
> not yet in LEDE. If I think it looks good I will merge it into the LEDE
> code base, otherwise I will provide a list with all the commits I think
> we should discuss.
> 
> Is that OK with all of you?

Most definitively works for me, AFAIR, Zoltan also had gone through that
exercise before, so he may be able to share a list of things he identified.

> 
> For actually moving the repository I would need some help, but I can
> coordinate that.
> 
> How will take care of merging the websites?
> Imre wanted a different website design, but I am unable to do such
> stuff. I do not care about the design, but I like that it is a wiki.

I would go with having the DNS entries be updated such that whether you
hit lede-project.org or openwrt.org you land on the same pages
(depending on URL and hostname before the TLD), then we can see about
changing the web sites.
-- 
Florian