[Tinyos-alliance] Boomerang (sentilla/moteiv)

[David Gay]

On 10/19/07, Matt Welsh <mdw at eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> In the short term they should probably throw it on sourceforge so
> folks can keep maintaining it, but over time I assume that  the major
> parts of Boomerang that folks find useful should be folded into
> TinyOS over time (assuming the license permits this).

Wouldn't the contrib stuff be at least a good intermediate holding point?


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> On Oct 19, 2007, at 9:23 PM, Philip Levis wrote:
>
> > 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
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