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On 2021-12-12 20:42, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
Hi,
(...)
Hi Jo-Philips, thanks for the detailed write-up.
As an embedded software developer, I feel much and mostly agree with
your reasoning. However, one of the reasons I like to use OpenWRT so
much on my production router(s) is exactly that availability of quality
pre-build images and release branch matching up-to-date (security, bugs)
packages.
For production use, I really love the "official" built and tested
releases and install them to my devices, even while having my own builds
available. Next to that, I install packages of what additional
functionality I need. For the 20.02.1 release, it was also the way to
get rid of a small bug, as advised in the release notes (in a matter of
seconds):
"
The menu bar in LuCI is wrongly aligned
If this is a real problem for you update the LuCI theme: opkg upgrade
luci-theme-bootstrap
"
(source: https://openwrt.org/releases/21.02/notes-21.02.1)
This is what, in my humble opinion, makes OpenWRT such a great piece of
software for even not-so-technical users: you just pick the latest
release for your router and if you need some other functionality, you
can simply install a few packages from the web UI. And if there is a
small security update or bugfix, it is solved in a few mouse clicks for
everyone, independent of their technical skills.
So apart from being convenient, I feel the packages feed for release
branches also provides easy access to stability and security to all
users. Given all the issues found in IOT and routers with mostly
out-of-date propriety firmware, OpenWRT in its current form is such an
asset!
In summary, I would urge the OpenWRT devs to not too lightly drop the
binary distribution of images and packages it has now. If, however, it
is decided otherwise, I'm thinking of a possible solution: a docker or
other container-like image that users can download with for example the
host tools pre-build and an easy to use interface to update the OpenWRT
sources, and configure and build them to their needs.
Cheers,
Bas.
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