[Tinyos Core WG] Instructions for contributing code

[Philip Levis]

On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:11 AM, henri dubois-ferriere wrote:

>
> - Top-level organisation: Why organise things by institution name?
> That's in my view one of the drawbacks of the 1.x organization. It
> doesn't seem like a relevant top-level structure (do I typically
> search for "any code from UCX" or  for "a routing protocol"?), and it
> also doesn't seem compatible with the hope (I assume that its shared
> by others) that one day a sizeable amount of contributions come from
> individuals working on their own account (like for most other
> successful open source projects).

The directory structure is mostly for management and to keep related  
things close. The index is intended to be the way to find things,  
e.g., "a routing protocol." Levels of indirection considered helpful.

Phil