<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Baptiste,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm delighted to see babeld enter the OpenWrt mainline. This is a great day indeed - the culmination of a huge amount of work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I agree that documentation is an important piece of the entire product. And the OpenWrt wiki page still needs work, even though I bet that every word there is true.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My biggest concern is that it's missing an introductory section that gives a motivation for using babeld. The text needs to help the new reader answer, "Does babeld offer something for me?" Other questions... "Why should I care? Why would I use babeld? What situations/configurations would benefit from babeld, and how would my life be better? Why choose babeld in preference to those other mesh-y packages such as Open-Mesh, OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N?"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That section doesn't need to be long: two or three paragraphs is probably enough. In fact, shorter is better. I am happy to help with wordsmithing, but I don't know enough about babel/babeld to get started...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Rich</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">PS I checked the babel home page at <a href="https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/babel/" class="">https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/babel/</a> in hopes of finding such a description. It, too, could benefit from a description like this.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baptiste Jonglez <<a href="mailto:baptiste@bitsofnetworks.org" class="">baptiste@bitsofnetworks.org</a>></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[Babel-users] Babeld 1.9.1 in OpenWrt + documentation</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">August 31, 2019 at 6:43:02 AM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org" class="">babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><br class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">I am happy to announce that babeld 1.9.1 has been added to OpenWrt [1] and<br class="">will even be part of the upcoming OpenWrt release (19.07) [2,3].<br class=""><br class="">It is a good opportunity to remind about the "babeld on OpenWrt"<br class="">documentation:<br class=""><br class=""> <a href="https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/babeld" class="">https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/babeld</a><br class=""><br class="">This documentation describes how to configure babeld in depth, including<br class="">lots of examples. It may even be useful outside of OpenWrt.<br class=""><br class="">If you have an interesting babeld setup and want to share your<br class="">configuration as example, please do so! In particular, I couldn't<br class="">document a realistic source-specific routing setup because I don't use<br class="">this feature.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Baptiste<br class=""><br class="">[1] <a href="https://github.com/openwrt-routing/packages/pull/506" class="">https://github.com/openwrt-routing/packages/pull/506</a><br class="">[2] <a href="https://github.com/openwrt-routing/packages/pull/505" class="">https://github.com/openwrt-routing/packages/pull/505</a><br class="">[3] <a href="https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07-SNAPSHOT/packages/mips_24kc/routing/" class="">https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07-SNAPSHOT/packages/mips_24kc/routing/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Babel-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Babel-users@alioth-lists.debian.net" class="">Babel-users@alioth-lists.debian.net</a><br class="">https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>