Compiling your own firmware - Possible for a non-computer science professional??

[got_milk]

That looks like an acceptable solution to me. Just need to document it on the Wiki for easy access to newcomers.

If you'd like, I can write up some documentation for the wiki tomorrow most likely. Would you want it in the existing documentation for compiling on Ubuntu/Mint or should there be a new wiki just for checking out a tagged release?

 

[RMerlin]

If you'd like, I can write up some documentation for the wiki tomorrow most likely. Would you want it in the existing documentation for compiling on Ubuntu/Mint or should there be a new wiki just for checking out a tagged release?

Ideally, I'd say have a new page specifically on "How to download the source code". The two build pages could then be updated to point back at that new wiki page in the part that says how to clone the repo.

I'll start regularly tagging releases (starting with tonight's Beta 3) from now on.

Thanks!

 

[got_milk]

No problem. I'll write up some docs tomorrow using your beta 3 as a reference point, then update it for the next stable tagged build.

 

[got_milk]

First revision of the documentation is available:

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Download-the-latest-source-code-from-GitHub

Let me know if I've overlooked or didn't emphasize anything enough. I still need to tweak the formatting a bit, GitHub's markdown is apparently a bit different from my local markdown parser.

 

[RMerlin]

First revision of the documentation is available:

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Download-the-latest-source-code-from-GitHub

Let me know if I've overlooked or didn't emphasize anything enough. I still need to tweak the formatting a bit, GitHub's markdown is apparently a bit different from my local markdown parser.

I'll read it more in details when I get back home tonight, but at first glance your formatting looks damn good to me.

 

[got_milk]

I'll read it more in details when I get back home tonight, but at first glance your formatting looks damn good to me.

Well, not quite. Haha. GitHub's version of Markdown tries to syntax highlight inside code blocks automatically which didn't play well with some of the example git output I put inside them. I've fixed it this morning now however so all should be well.