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I find the "Source archives" item on the right-side box much too prominent. The item leads into an archive of package sources to be downloaded. Manual download of those sources is normally not necessary, so the item's presence on all web pages is much too much... The item should be moved away from the right side, or renamed to be something like "Package source backup download", or something like that.

(Similarly, there are no tweets, so why the link on every page? )

Additionally, the "Source archives" item leads into the directory https://sources.lede-project.org/ that contains quite much outdated stuff, e.g. versions of Linux, openssl, core tools (like ubox, uhttpd, netifd, odhcp* ) since 2014. I think that the sources download site itself might need some cleanup, too.

As a long-time user of OpenWrt, I am interested to give LEDE a try. Even though I've heard good reports elsewhere, there are several hurdles that stop me from investing my limited attention in taking my (working) router out of service and risking it with a new build.

If the first page of your Docs section (https://www.lede-project.org/docs/index.html) could address the questions below, it would show all new visitors to LEDE how easy it is to get started.

• I am successfully using OpenWrt 15.05.1 on my TP-Link, Netgear, and Witi routers. Where can I find the corresponding LEDE image? (I think the answer is to look in the appropriate section for my architecture on https://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/targets/ )
• Are there generic steps for installing from factory stock firmware? Are there step-by-step instructions for installing the image after I download it? (Should people simply look at the "device page" on OpenWrt site? Are there other sources of info?)
• What about an existing OpenWrt build? What generic/step-by-step instructions are available?
• What advice do you have about preserving (or not preserving) any settings from the previous install?
• Does LEDE come with LuCI built-in? Or do I have to install it separately?
• I regularly use a number of extra packages (luci-app-sqm, other SQM-related packages (especially cake), hnetd, snmpd, netperf) I see that they are not listed in the "packages" subdirectory for my architecture. Do they exist? How can I get them?
• What version is LEDE based on (CC? DD?) How compatible is it? What surprises might I encounter?

Many thanks!

lede-project.org is still using X.509 certificates issued by StartSSL. This is a problem because StartSSL/Startcom has had some major fuckups recently, which have pushed Mozilla to basically throw them out in Firefox 51:

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/10/24/distrusting-new-wosign-and-startcom-certificates/

downloads.lede-project.org is using certificates issued by Let's Encrypt and is thus not affected.

no idea how to make ruby behave. installed jekyll, installed ruby-dev, ruby-ffi, blah

$ bundle exec jekyll serve
Configuration file: /home/karlp/src/lede-docs-web/_config.yml
            Source: /home/karlp/src/lede-docs-web
       Destination: /home/karlp/src/lede-docs-web/_site
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating... 
/home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.1.6/lib/jekyll/filters.rb:2:in `require': cannot load such file -- json (LoadError)
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.1.6/lib/jekyll/filters.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.1.6/lib/jekyll/renderer.rb:53:in `run'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.1.6/lib/jekyll/site.rb:179:in `block in render'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.1.6/lib/jekyll/site.rb:177:in `each'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.1.6/lib/jekyll/site.rb:177:in `render'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.1.6/lib/jekyll/site.rb:59:in `process'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.1.6/lib/jekyll/command.rb:26:in `process_site'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.1.6/lib/jekyll/commands/build.rb:60:in `build'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.1.6/lib/jekyll/commands/build.rb:33:in `process'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.1.6/lib/jekyll/commands/serve.rb:34:in `block (2 levels) in init_with_program'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `call'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `block in execute'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `each'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `execute'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/program.rb:42:in `go'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary.rb:19:in `program'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.1.6/bin/jekyll:13:in `<top (required)>'
    from /home/karlp/bin/jekyll:23:in `load'
    from /home/karlp/bin/jekyll:23:in `<main>'
karlp@cuth:~/src/lede-docs-web (mdns-basics)$ jekyll serve
WARN: Unresolved specs during Gem::Specification.reset:
      ffi (>= 0.5.0)
WARN: Clearing out unresolved specs.
Please report a bug if this causes problems.
/usr/share/gems/gems/bundler-1.7.8/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:34:in `block in setup': You have already activated colorator 1.1.0, but your Gemfile requires colorator 0.1. Prepending `bundle exec` to your command may solve this. (Gem::LoadError)
    from /usr/share/gems/gems/bundler-1.7.8/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:19:in `setup'
    from /usr/share/gems/gems/bundler-1.7.8/lib/bundler.rb:122:in `setup'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.2.1/lib/jekyll/plugin_manager.rb:36:in `require_from_bundler'
    from /home/karlp/.gem/ruby/gems/jekyll-3.2.1/exe/jekyll:9:in `<top (required)>'
    from /home/karlp/bin/jekyll:23:in `load'
    from /home/karlp/bin/jekyll:23:in `<main>'
karlp@cuth:~/src/lede-docs-web (mdns-basics)$ 

Commit c09fac1 added a new FAQ page but https://www.lede-project.org/faq.html returns a 404.

Commit 6a9a101 added a new document - development_new_device.txt - but it returns a 404 on the LEDE website (I replaced txt with html at the end). I don't know what's wrong here (or what I am doing wrong). The page does not seem to be linked to on one of the main pages, so I cannot click through to it.

In the same trend, I'd like the uci_defaults page to be linked as well, so people can click through to it, rather than needing to know the direct URL. Adding documentation is great but not very useful for others if it's not linked to...