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

[Ian Craggs <icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger,

I wouldn't anticipate too much if I were you - there might not be any :-)

Ian


On 08/12/2013 09:28 PM, Roger Light wrote:
> 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.