[Tinyos-devel] Retiring tinyos-2_0_devel-BRANCH

[Joe Polastre]

Phil,

  You said that no one (except you and Vlado) have permission to
modify the HEAD.  Will this continue to be true?

  I personally think that an approach like SVN where you can have a
devel branch that is easily merged with the HEAD is the optimum
solution given the current tools.  Access control is a red herring,
and contribution should be key.

  Given such considerations, I noticed that contrib does not require a
specific license for the contrib/ contributions.  I assume this is on
purpose to allow contributions under any license to be submitted to
the TinyOS contrib source tree to foster greater collaboration and
contributions.

Best,
-Joe

On 12/14/06, Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Earlier this week, Vlado merged all of the fixes in the 2.0 release
> and -devel branches into the HEAD branch of the tinyos-2.x CVS
> module. The intention is that active development will now mostly
> occur on HEAD, with the exception that major system revisions (which
> need to go through partially-working states) will occur on separate
> branches. I've removed write access to the -devel and -release
> branches. So from now on, if you want the most up to date TinyOS 2.0
> code, you do not need to use a branch tag.
>
> If you currently have CVS checked out on a branch, the easiest way to
> update to HEAD is with the -A flag.
>
> cd src/tinyos-2.x
> cvs -z3 update -dP -A
>
> This clears all tags from your checkout.
>
> This transition doesn't mean that the code is set in stone, as the
> recent discussions about the low-level serial interfaces shows.
> Rather, it's now in a stable enough state that you should be able to
> check it out and use it.
>
> Next week I'm going to be sending out information on the new bug
> reporting approach. I think many people would agree that the current
> one is pretty lackluster, so we're going to try something different
> that will help monitoring and get bug fixes into the tree.
>
> Phil
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