[Tinyos-alliance] Boomerang (sentilla/moteiv)

[Philip Levis]

David Binetti from Sentilla (once known as Moteiv) contacted me about  
the future of Boomerang, the custom TinyOS version that Moteiv used  
to provide. Since they're moving on to Java-based pervasive  
computing, Boomerang is no longer in active development. David asked  
if tinyos.net would be willing to host it.

I don't think tinyos.net is the right place; rather, it should be on  
Sourceforge, so that interested developers can continue to apply bug  
fixes, etc. But even if Sentilla is OK with this, this raises the  
question of whether it should live in the TinyOS project or another  
project. Beyond licensing issues -- which I think we could figure  
out, given it's not part of the T2 core -- I think the major hurdle  
here is user/developer management. Putting it in as a top-level  
module in the TinyOS project would mean we'd need to incorporate it  
into the WG structure for CVS access. Alternatively, it could go into  
a separate CVS project and we could put a link to the Boomerang  
community up on tinyos.net.

Thoughts?

Phil