Re: [riot-devel] Regarding RIOT joining EdgeX Foundry
Hey Thomas! On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 01:24:12PM -0700, Thomas Eichinger wrote: > Thanks for your feedback. I think there is no such thing as an official > trial trial period so I understand correctly that this trial period would be > a RIOT internal thing? Yupp, that's what I meant. Sorry for my sloppy wording. Cheers, Oleg -- The good thing about object oriented jokes is they bring their own laughter method. signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ devel mailing list devel@riot-os.org https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: [riot-devel] Regarding RIOT joining EdgeX Foundry
Hi Oleg, Thanks for your feedback. I think there is no such thing as an official trial trial period so I understand correctly that this trial period would be a RIOT internal thing? As far as I get it nobody objects the idea of RIOT as a project joining EdgeX in general. People who would be interested in participating in this endeavor please contact me off list to start organizing the upcoming administrational steps. Best, Thomas On 28 Apr 2017, at 23:41 PDT(-0700), Oleg Hahm wrote: Hi Aaron, hi Thomas! Thanks for sparking this discussion and sharing your thoughts about this topic! On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 11:03:03AM +1200, Aaron Sowry wrote: I think this is a good idea, forming a special interest group a.k.a task force gathering people having time to spare to invest in EdgeX, reporting back to the community as we used to do for technical topics. I think a task force would at least fulfill the desire to "keep an eye on the results" as you say, and would probably be a positive thing to have regardless of how much involvement RIOT decides to have in EdgeX. I very much like the idea of joining the EdgeX Foundry with some kind of trial period in mind having a group of people committed to monitor this period and the general alignment between RIOT's goals and the direction EdgeX is taking. Cheers, Oleg -- Unix is user friendly... its just selective about who its friends are. ___ devel mailing list devel@riot-os.org https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel ___ devel mailing list devel@riot-os.org https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: [riot-devel] Regarding RIOT joining EdgeX Foundry
Hi, Comments in-line. > Thanks for your input, I very much appreciate it. Please see my comments > inline. You're very welcome, thank you for encouraging community discussion. > Potentially it does turn out that EdgeX is moving into a direction that is > not > desired by the community or incompatible with RIOT's goals. From my point of > view however the only way to have at least a little bit of an influence on > this > is to actually participate and try. If the point should be reached at which > there is a conflict of interests, there is always the option to drop out. Sure, I suppose there is no harm in trying. > As a project we can't make any contributor work on EdgeX other than they, > or their employers, want to. How far the involvement will go will also > depend > on how open this group is for our input. In general I can rather see people > somehow involved in RIOT providing technical input and keeping an eye on the > results than actually contributing huge junks to an Apache 2 licensed code > base. I suspect that any major contributions to the development of EdgeX, code-wise or direction-wise, will be restricted to high-paying members of the Foundry. Others (e.g. RIOT) will be effectively relegated to minor contributions such as bug fixes, and be expected to adapt their platform to whatever the prominent members decide if they wish to obtain EdgeX certification. So I would expect that the majority of the changes will be in RIOT itself, rather than contributions to the EdgeX code base. But perhaps RIOT is modular enough to get away with this without sacrificing the long-term goals of the project. > I think this is a good idea, forming a special interest group a.k.a task > force > gathering people having time to spare to invest in EdgeX, reporting back to > the > community as we used to do for technical topics. I think a task force would at least fulfill the desire to "keep an eye on the results" as you say, and would probably be a positive thing to have regardless of how much involvement RIOT decides to have in EdgeX. Regards Aaron ___ devel mailing list devel@riot-os.org https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
[riot-devel] Regarding RIOT joining EdgeX Foundry
Dear RIOTers, As some of you might have noticed there exists a new initiative hosted by Linux Foundation called EdgeX Foundry [1]. From their website: "EdgeX FoundryTM is a vendor-neutral open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation building a common open framework for Industrial IoT edge computing. ... The initiative is aligned around a common goal: the simplification and standardization of the foundation for tiered edge computing architectures in the Industrial IoT market while still enabling the ecosystem to provide significant value-added differentiation." Some central people in the RIOT community consider this as an interesting project to join as it holds the possibility to expose RIOT to a broader audience and might also attract future contributions. RIOT would join as an open source project and thus become an Associated Member which does not imply joining the Linux Foundation. Before taking any further actions we wanted to know if anybody in the community feels uncomfortable or has any objections to RIOT participating? Please let us know in a timely manner about your concerns. General feedback is very much welcome as usual. Cheers, Thomas [1] https://www.edgexfoundry.org/ ___ devel mailing list devel@riot-os.org https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
