This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.
A Brief History of AUTHORS files
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The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.
The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".
This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.
Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:
> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.
It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.
In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.
Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.
The source file changes were purely mechanical with:
git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Previously, the operator checked the ProxyGroup status fields for
information on how many of the proxies had successfully authed. Use
their state Secrets instead as a more reliable source of truth.
containerboot has written device_fqdn and device_ips keys to the
state Secret since inception, and pod_uid since 1.78.0, so there's
no need to use the API for that data. Read it from the state Secret
for consistency. However, to ensure we don't read data from a
previous run of containerboot, make sure we reset containerboot's
state keys on startup.
One other knock-on effect of that is ProxyGroups can briefly be
marked not Ready while a Pod is restarting. Introduce a new
ProxyGroupAvailable condition to more accurately reflect
when downstream controllers can implement flows that rely on a
ProxyGroup having at least 1 proxy Pod running.
Fixes#16327
Change-Id: I026c18e9d23e87109a471a87b8e4fb6271716a66
Signed-off-by: Tom Proctor <tomhjp@users.noreply.github.com>
This change builds on top of #14436 to ensure minimum downtime during egress ProxyGroup update rollouts:
- adds a readiness gate for ProxyGroup replicas that prevents kubelet from marking
the replica Pod as ready before a corresponding readiness condition has been added
to the Pod
- adds a reconciler that reconciles egress ProxyGroup Pods and, for each that is not ready,
if cluster traffic for relevant egress endpoints is routed via this Pod- if so add the
readiness condition to allow kubelet to mark the Pod as ready.
During the sequenced StatefulSet update rollouts kubelet does not restart
a Pod before the previous replica has been updated and marked as ready, so
ensuring that a replica is not marked as ready allows to avoid a temporary
post-update situation where all replicas have been restarted, but none of the
new ones are yet set up as an endpoint for the egress service, so cluster traffic is dropped.
Updates tailscale/tailscale#14326
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
cmd/k8s-operator,k8s-operator/apis: set a readiness condition on egress Services
Set a readiness condition on ExternalName Services that define a tailnet target
to route cluster traffic to via a ProxyGroup's proxies. The condition
is set to true if at least one proxy is currently set up to route.
Updates tailscale/tailscale#13406
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Alex Chan
Tom Proctor
Irbe Krumina