Hello
All,
the next Eclipse IoT WG meeting will be
held on Tuesday February 11 @
11am EDT.
To join the Zoom meeting from PC, Mac,
Linux, iOS or Android: https://eclipse.zoom.us/j/646159255
We will be discussing the Eclipse Paho (https://eclipse.org/paho)
project, and its future.
Nearly all of the people are now working
on the project in their own time rather than as part of
their paid employment. Now this isn't perhaps that unusual
for Open Source projects in general, but it is a change from
the start of the project, when several people working at IBM
formed the initial committers.
The remit of the project was to help
create a community around MQTT, and I think that it has
generally succeeded in doing that over the last 7 years.
Paho consists of a number of components for the MQTT and
MQTT-SN protocols, principally client libraries in various
languages. Each of the components has a committer
responsible for it, some more involved than others.
Some components do not have much active
involvement, and one of the questions is how to treat
those. Should we deprecate in some cases? From time to
time, some people do want to get involved, but becoming an
Eclipse committer is perhaps more onerous than they would
like to take on. Is there any feasible way of making
temporary contributions easier?
I have recently been sponsored by HiveMQ
(thanks to them) for some of my work on Paho, and Github
sponsors is a new program which we may be able to take
advantage of. However given that I think that there are
companies who rely on the Paho components, contributions in
terms of time and effort are the most valuable.
If anyone would like to add their
thoughts to the discussion, as a contributor or as a
consumer of the project, please feel free to join in.
Thanks!
This is the first of a series of
proposed project level discussions at the regular IoT
workgroup meeting, alternating with general IoT WG business.
Ian Craggs