Firmware Selector Setup

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Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openwrt-adm [mailto:openwrt-adm-bounces at lists.openwrt.org] On
> Behalf Of Rich Brown
> Sent: Sonntag, 2. August 2020 15:28
> To: Moritz Warning <moritzwarning at web.de>
> Cc: OpenWrt Project Administration <openwrt-adm at lists.openwrt.org>
> Subject: Re: Firmware Selector Setup
> 
> 
> > On Jul 31, 2020, at 8:13 PM, Moritz Warning <moritzwarning at web.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > we have reached the point that we can finally set up the firmware selector
> [0]. Yay!
> 
> YAY! Indeed...
> 
> > But somebody need to finally put it on the website...
> 
> That's the next big question. How do we roll out this wonderful new feature?
> 
> 1) Is it ready to go now?

As I understand it: Yes.

> 
> 2) What releases would we initially handle: 18.06.08? 19.07.3? Snapshot? Do
> we have a preference for the order of the choices in the dropdown? (I would
> list current stable version first, with Snapshot last.)

Only 19.07 and snapshot will support it as I understand, as only those generate the necessary json files.

> 
> 3) Do we tie it to the release of 20.xx at all?

No, I don't see a point in that. I'd add it now and then add 20.xx when it's ready.

> 
> 4) Who needs to be involved in the decision to move forward? (I note that
> openwrt-devel has not been looped into this message. How much
> involvement do we need?)

From my understanding, there was consent in the virtual meeting and nobody ever expressed a negative opinion on any list.

Best

Adrian

> 
> 5) Who needs to be involved in "the doing" to make this happen? At a
> minimum, we will need to:
> 	- Put the YAFS pages on the website
> 	- Decide whether to update the entire Download section of the site
> (see https://richb-
> hanover.github.io//LEDE_Download_Index_Page/files.html for final drafts of
> those pages)
> 	- Update the Wiki to tell how to use the new download feature
> (several places?)
> 	- Create a post for the Forum describing the new download facility
> 	- Write a News Item on the wiki home page
> 	- What else?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
> >
> > Dependencies:
> >> = Python 3.6
> >
> > Theses are example setup commands:
> >
> >  git clone
> > https://github.com/mwarning/yet-another-firmware-selector.git
> >  mkdir -p /var/www/firmware-selector/
> >  cp yet-another-firmware-selector/www/*
> > yet-another-firmware-selector/misc/collect.py
> > /var/www/firmware-selector/  echo -e
> > '#!/bin/sh\n/var/www/firmware-selector/collect.py scrape
> > https://downloads.openwrt.org /var/www/firmware-selector/' >
> > /etc/cron.hourly/update-firmware-selector.sh
> >  chmod a+x /etc/cron.hourly/update-firmware-selector.sh
> >
> > The firmware selector can be used after the time the cron job has run. New
> OpenWrt releases will be added to the selector once released.
> > The index.html needs to be linked on the openwrt.org website. Since this is
> preliminary setup and will change with the next redesign, any location will do.
> >
> > best,
> > Moritz
> >
> > [0] https://github.com/mwarning/yet-another-firmware-selector
> >
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