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

[Kevin Klues]

I think its a good idea to make contributors aware of what sort of
licensing terms they are bound by.  I will add a reference in the
document pointing to the link below:

http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=778&group_id=1


Kevin

On 12/15/06, Vlado Handziski <handzisk at tkn.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 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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~Kevin