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