[Tinyos Core WG] Instructions for contributing code

[Philip Levis]

On Dec 1, 2006, at 1:29 AM, Joe Polastre wrote:

> rathole--;
>
> Point of contrib is that people can (in my opinion) "CONTRIBUTE  
> CODE EASILY"
>
> Institution Name Space is a bad idea because a working group (ie,
> something like Apache Labs) should have the ability to commit.  If you
> want the ability to index by type (ie routing protocol), create a
> webpage.  That's what they're for, NOT for creating directory
> structures.
>

There's a distinction between a working group and contrib. The former  
involves access to tinyos-2.x; the latter involves access to  
tinyos-2.x-contrib. The organizational structure is different.


> Let it be a free for all with the only requirement being that a
> description has to be provided in the top level directory.  Clearly
> TinyOS is completely lacking contributions, so any barriers you place
> are going to compound the code stifling that already exists.

That's the contrib idea. The problem with a free-for-all (e.g., 1.x  
contrib) is that it makes it very difficult for people to find  
things. Kevin and Martin's proposal is essentially an attempt to come  
up with some minimalist guidelines that are not an undue burden to  
producers but which greatly improve the utility to the users.

Phil