#21942: Is OpenWrt project dead? The servers are...
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Reporter: richb.hanover@… | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: website | Version: Trunk
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by richbhanover):
Replying to [comment:5 anonymous]:
> git log | grep richb | wc -l
> 0
> git log | grep Rich | grep Brown | wc -l
> 0
> git log | grep hanover -i | wc -l
> 0
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> your postings here and on the forum are real funny and demanding
assuming that you never contributed anything to openwrt trunk.
>
> you need to review your understanding of what community means. you are
mixing it up with feudalism or something like that.
I'm going to have to disagree with your argument. You are correct that I
have not contributed any code to trunk. But an Open Source project relies
on more than its source code.
A critical component to any successful project is letting the world know
what's going on. When I make the posts here and in the forum, I'm speaking
for the hundreds (thousands?) of people who wind up wasting their time
because the documentation is not good enough. (You can check out all the
forum postings from people who struggled and failed to load packages from
the servers when they had trouble.)
Over the last four years, I have spent hundreds of hours improving the
public-facing side of OpenWrt by editing the wiki, as a member of the
CeroWrt/Bufferbloat team and the "Improve the ToH" team, and making
requests for improvements to the main OpenWrt home page (see, for example,
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/19892)
I desperately want OpenWrt to succeed. It powers my routers at home, and a
small part of my business (installing routers in other people's homes.)
But it pains me when I introduce newcomers to the site: it's confusing,
frequently outdated, and I don't know anyone who has permission to change
the top levels to make it better. That's why I try to improve things where
I can, around the margins, where it's permitted by the core developers.
I know the core developers work hard. I know that failing hardware throws
a huge wrench into the works, and freezes all sorts of progress. I know
this takes first priority.
But I also know that it's important to maintain the public-facing side of
the project. In my previous posting (and elsewhere), I asked if there was
anything that the core-developers would be willing to hand off to people
who have the time/interest in spreading the word.
I'm still waiting for a response.
Rich Brown
[email protected]
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/21942#comment:6>
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