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by bipson 3466 days ago
Well, technically you might be right, but I would like to point out that two groups joining their efforts, while picking the best of both (organizational) worlds (processes, infrastructure, etc.) is always a good thing in the open-source world and means progress could be accelerated for the new, unified project.

Politically this could mean that either OpenWRT has moved and intends to improve regarding the issues that lead to the fork, or that the fork wants to return home either way.

I suppose at least both groups think their time is better spent together instead of separate, and I personally like these news way more than those of yet another fork...
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cookiecaper 3465 days ago
Yes. It's so rare to find people willing to cooperate and make some compromises for much larger overarching productivity. The BFG and Pylons merged to become Pyramid after recognizing that they were working toward a very similar vision and that it was just wasted effort to be getting there separately. It's always great to hear of this kind of thing, and I have huge respect for the people behind the few projects that are willing to do it.
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ak217 3465 days ago
From what I've gathered so far, LEDE is where the vast majority of activity and development moved after OpenWRT alienated most of the participants with friction in their workflow. OpenWRT had just a shell of 3 project members left, but continued to have substantial name recognition.
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TwoNineFive 3465 days ago
This is correct. LEDE is where all the devs and action went. OpenWRT is now just two or three people who were holding the old project hostage and may agree for LEDE to take over the name.

If there is a re-merge, it's going to be the LEDE base that is used. There are a half-dozen or more new devices supported in LEDE, an no new devices in OpenWRT from after the split (that I am aware of anyway).

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vacri 3465 days ago
Sounds reminiscent of the nodejs/iojs split and re-merge.
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hoechst 3465 days ago
Sure, don't get me wrong, I think it's great that they put aside their differences and decided to work together again. I agree that focusing of one project is better.

Just wanted to put it more into context.

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