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>
So we can locate them in logs more easily.
Updates tailscale/corp#24721
Change-Id: Ia766c75608050dde7edc99835979a6e9bb328df2
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Request ID generation appears prominently in some services cumulative
allocation rate, and while this does not eradicate this issue (the API
still makes UUID objects), it does improve the overhead of this API and
reduce the amount of garbage that it produces.
Updates tailscale/corp#18266
Updates tailscale/corp#19054
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
In case we want to change the format to something opaque later.
Updates tailscale/corp#2549
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: Ie2eac8b885b694be607e9d5101d24b650026d89c
Also perform minor cleanups on the ctxkey package itself.
Provide guidance on when to use ctxkey.Key[T] over ctxkey.New.
Also, allow for interface kinds because the value wrapping trick
also happens to fix edge cases with interfaces in Go.
Updates #cleanup
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
The recent addition of RequestID was only populated if the
HTTP Request had returned an error. This meant that the underlying
handler has no access to this request id and any logs it may have
emitted were impossible to correlate to that request id. Therefore,
this PR adds a middleware to generate request ids and pass them
through the request context. The tsweb.StdHandler automatically
populates this request id if the middleware is being used. Finally,
inner handlers can use the context to retrieve that same request id
and use it so that all logs and events can be correlated.
Updates #2549
Signed-off-by: Marwan Sulaiman <marwan@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
James Tucker
Andrew Dunham
Joe Tsai
Marwan Sulaiman