[Tinyos-2.0wg] criterion for adding a sensorboard into tinyos-2.x

[David Gay]

On 8/24/06, Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2006, at 10:59 AM, David Gay wrote:
>
> > On 8/22/06, henri dubois-ferriere <henridf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> What (if any) is/are the criterion for adding a sensorboard into
> >> the tree?
> >
> > I'd say that it has to be a publically available sensorboard for one
> > of the tree's platforms.
> >
> >> Question driver: code for a weather board (7-8 sensors total) that we
> >> are using in the sensorscope project. i would like to check it in
> >> somewhere but am not sure if the right place is contrib or tinyos-2.x
> >> (though leaning toward contrib, if only to seed it..)
> >
> > So it depends on the answer to the previous question :-)
>
> I think that makes sense: to be in the core, the device needs to be
> readily available to general TinyOS users. It might actually make
> sense for each platform and sensor board to have a README that
> describes where you can get it...

We should probably also allow:
"here's the schematic, the layout, the parts list, etc" for "open
source" sensorboard designs (i.e., allow "make your own", and not just
commercially available things).

David