[Tinyos Core WG] Instructions for contributing code

[henri dubois-ferriere]

On 01/12/06, Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>

I understand that such a directory structure certainly isnt to make
searching and browsing easier.
Can you cite any successful (read: that is not written and used in
majority by residents of academia) open source project where things
are organised out based on where the author of some module happens to
work as opposed to what kind of functionality the module actually
offers? I can't.

> Phil
>