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

[Vlado Handziski]

On 12/15/06, Joe Polastre <joe at polastre.com> wrote:
>
> Phil,
>
>   You said that no one (except you and Vlado) have permission to
> modify the HEAD.  Will this continue to be true?


Of course not. Now all developers have access to HEAD, and DEVEL will be
kept closed but still around for the logs.

  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.


Isn't that what we had until now? Having a separate "stable" branch on CVS
is not needed in my view and only complicates things. We have releases for
that. Plus developers tend to leave the repository in a consistent state, so
checking out directly from HEAD should not scare even less-experienced
users. Having said that, I am all for moving over to SVN. During the last
telecon I asked the same question about the relative merit of access control
vs. the benefits that SVN offers. The conclusion was that maybe the alliance
group might want to sound off on this.

  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.


Well, they are still constrained by the SourceForge policy.  Maybe we should
point this out more clearly in the documents.


Vlado
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