On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:46:47PM +0200, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: > Hi,
Ho, > I decided to rearrange my master plan for FreeWRT development. I > will focus on FreeWRT 1.1 in the next months. Brcm-2.6 support will > be removed very soon. The reason for that is very simple. Please do not remove brcm-2.6, I promised Michael to push this target in return for his donation of my first WGT634U (RIP). If it's running fine, I would rather drop 2.4 support on Netgear. > I will not invest more time into crappy hardware from big companys, > who does not play nice with the community. There are a lot of open > hardware projects available and we should support them, if we can. How many (affordable) devices of this kind do you know of? Anyway, none of them is as popular as the fscking Linksys WRT series. So if we drop all support for crappy hardware, sooner or later we won't support anything at all. (Please consider that my PC died two weeks ago. ;) > Furthermore we have a nice OpenWrt release, which everyone can use, if > somebody needs Broadcom Routers with 2.6! I know you didn't want to write this. I hope you do either. > I am still unsure how to handle the old not buyable hardware > from Netgear, Asus and Linksys. We are a small team, we should focus > on realistic goals. Yes, our goals are providing a better OS for them. What everybody understands (everyone I told at LT did) is that we can't support hardware we don't own. So if a given device is no longer maintainable, it should be ok to disable it until there is either a maintainer owning hardware or no living devices around anymore. Then it should be either reenabled or removed from the tree. The fact that we are a small team shows already in the amount of time till certain bugs on certain devices are fixed. I don't see why it should also affect the number of supported platforms. > Comments please! Here we go... > There is always a chance for a voting to get a new project leader. Ok. Seems like I _really_ missed something. To make it short: I vote for you! And I will personally kick every freewrt developer's butt (with startup) who doesn't agree with me. > Have fun! Indeed, I do. > don't open your wrt, free it Is this what it's all about? -- No, it's not. Our users definitely know better why they prefer FreeWRT over OpenWrt than us. I know better why I prefer Gentoo Linux over any other distribution or BSD (cheers, Thorsten!) than anyone else. But a developer should stick to his project, at least because of his duty. So at least for me there won't ever be any doubt about which OS to use for my embedded devices. If you really want to announce OpenWrt releases, then do it in freewrt-users@, you address the wrong people here. Good fight, good night! Phil
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