Re: [paho-dev] Contribution of MQTT Servers (Mosquitto and RSMB)

[Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

The changes look good to me, I think it's in pretty good shape now.

I agree with what Ian says about code merging and just to add that I
look forward to seeing the rsmb code and finding the bits that it does
better than mosquitto.

Cheers,

Roger

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Ian Craggs
<icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ian, Mike,
>
> to answer the question of how Mosquitto and RSMB code bases will be merged.
>
> My view is that this proposal is as much as a "declaration of intent" from
> IBM, as much as a contribution of code.   It will signal that the future of
> RSMB is in open source, here in Eclipse.  That signal is for people inside
> IBM as well as in the open source community.  Whether RSMB code is actually
> used in a final Mosquitto product is secondary - there will be no forced
> merging.
>
> IBM will have already contributed to the project: the design of MQTT and
> much of the external behaviour of Mosquitto itself, which was originally
> derived from RSMB.  The design of RSMB, though it looks simple, was
> influenced by my years of experience with MQTT servers, and with the
> collaboration of a number of other IBM folk, like Andy Stanford-Clark, Dave
> Conway-Jones, Nick O'Leary and Dave Locke.
>
> There a few functions that exist in RSMB that do not currently in Mosquitto
> - some serviceability aids in RSMB were required by IBM to build a supported
> product for instance.   Both RSMB and the existing Mosquitto projects use
> conditional compilation to allow smaller, less functional executables to be
> built as desired.   If there is function which IBM wants, but the Mosquitto
> project leads do not, it could be applied by patch or conditional
> compilation by IBM (but would still be open source).  If code from RSMB is
> useful, having the codebase contributed already makes it easy to pick and
> choose.
>
> Either way, I intend to contribute to the project, whether through code or
> tests or documentation, or in other ways.  And we already have a codebase
> which satisfies the draft aims of the project.
>
> Ian Craggs
>
>
> On 08/12/2013 04:56 PM, Mike Milinkovich wrote:
>>>
>>> The proposal looks good to me. Has there been a discussion on how the
>>> RSMB
>>> and Mosquitto code bases will be merged?
>>
>> Step one is to get both code bases contributed to a common project under
>> the
>> same license. Before that happens, the code merge conversation is rather
>> moot. Especially since RSMB's code is not currently available in open
>> source
>> for others to see.
>>
>>
>