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>
Wait 2 minutes before we start reporting battery usage. There is always
radio activity on initial startup, which gets reported as 100% high
power usage. Let that settle before we report usage data.
Updates tailscale/corp#9230
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Exposes some internal state of the sockstats package via the C2N and
PeerAPI endpoints, so that it can be used for debugging. For now this
includes the estimated radio on percentage and a second-by-second view
of the times the radio was active.
Also fixes another off-by-one error in the radio on percentage that
was leading to >100% values (if n seconds have passed since we started
to monitor, there may be n + 1 possible seconds where the radio could
have been on).
Updates tailscale/corp#9230
Signed-off-by: Mihai Parparita <mihai@tailscale.com>
When splitting the radio monitor usage array, we were splitting at now %
3600 to get values into chronological order. This caused the value for
the final second to be included at the beginning of the ordered slice
rather than the end. If there was activity during that final second, an
extra five seconds of high power usage would get recorded in some cases.
This could result in a final calculation of greater than 100% usage.
This corrects that by splitting values at (now+1 % 3600).
This also simplifies the percentage calculation by always rounding
values down, which is sufficient for our usage.
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
We use it to gate code that depends on custom Go toolchain, but it's
currently only passed in the corp runners. Add a set on OSS so that we
can catch regressions earlier.
To specifically test sockstats this required adding a build tag to
explicitly enable them -- they're normally on for iOS, macOS and Android
only, and we don't run tests on those platforms normally.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Parparita <mihai@tailscale.com>
power state is very roughly approximated based on observed network
activity and AT&T's state transition timings for a typical 3G radio.
Updates tailscale/corp#9230
Updates #3363
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
Mihai Parparita