[Xorp-hackers] OLSR

[J.T. Conklin]

Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> writes:
> Any reason we can't move OLSR out of contrib and into the main
> directory so that we can build it with scons?  In my testing OLSR
> was as stable as any other protocol, and if someone doesn't want to
> use it, they simply don't add it to their xorp config file, eh?

Good point.  Now that all of XORP is supported by the community, I'm
not sure there is a reason to have a "contrib" ghetto for other
protocols.

I'm not sure what guidelines the community should adopt for importing
new protocol implementations into XORP.  Right now I'm thinking along
the lines of contribution should be of sufficent importance and
general usefulness; should be of reasonable implementation quality;
should be OS/network stack independent; and should be have someone who
is willing to spend some effort to maintain it going forward.  This is
mostly intended to prevent some research protocol, of questionable
quality, with other interoperable implementations, being dropped in our
lap where we have to deal with all the maintenance headaches going 
forwards.

However, this isn't my call to make.  Anyone who has an opinion please
contribute to this thread.

    --jtc

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J.T. Conklin