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 a TKA compaction would only run when a node starts, which means a long-running node could use unbounded storage as it accumulates ever-increasing amounts of TKA state. This patch changes TKA so it runs a compaction after every sync.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/33537
Change-Id: I91df887ea0c5a5b00cb6caced85aeffa2a4b24ee
Signed-off-by: Alex Chan <alexc@tailscale.com>
Existing compaction logic seems to have had an assumption that
markActiveChain would cover a longer part of the chain than
markYoungAUMs. This prevented long, but fresh, chains, from being
compacted correctly.
Updates tailscale/corp#33537
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
This requires making the internals of LocalBackend a bit more generic,
and implementing the `tka.CompactableChonk` interface for `tka.Mem`.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chan <alexc@tailscale.com>
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/33599
This patch creates a set of tests that should be true for all implementations of Chonk and CompactableChonk, which we can share with the SQLite implementation in corp.
It includes all the existing tests, plus a test for LastActiveAncestor which was in corp but not in oss.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/33465
Signed-off-by: Alex Chan <alexc@tailscale.com>
We soft-delete AUMs when they're purged, but when we call `ChildAUMs()`,
we look up soft-deleted AUMs to find the `Children` field.
This patch changes the behaviour of `ChildAUMs()` so it only looks at
not-deleted AUMs. This means we don't need to record child information
on AUMs any more, which is a minor space saving for any newly-recorded
AUMs.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/17566
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/27166
Signed-off-by: Alex Chan <alexc@tailscale.com>
This method was added in cca25f6 in the initial in-memory implementation
of Chonk, but it's not part of the Chonk interface and isn't implemented
or used anywhere else. Let's get rid of it.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/33465
Signed-off-by: Alex Chan <alexc@tailscale.com>
go vet complains when we copy a lock value. Create clone function that
copies everything but the lock value.
Fixes#8207
Signed-off-by: Val <valerie@tailscale.com>
This adds an initial and intentionally minimal configuration for
golang-ci, fixes the issues reported, and adds a GitHub Action to check
new pull requests against this linter configuration.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I8f38fbc315836a19a094d0d3e986758b9313f163
This updates all source files to use a new standard header for copyright
and license declaration. Notably, copyright no longer includes a date,
and we now use the standard SPDX-License-Identifier header.
This commit was done almost entirely mechanically with perl, and then
some minimal manual fixes.
Updates #6865
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
It doesn't make a ton of sense for disablement to be communicated as an AUM, because
any failure in the AUM or chain mechanism will mean disablement wont function.
Instead, tracking of the disablement secrets remains inside the state machine, but
actual disablement and communication of the disablement secret is done by the caller.
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
This makes debugging easier, you can pass an AUMHash to a printf and get
a string that is easy to debug.
Also rearrange how directories/files work in the FS store: use the first
two characters of the string representation as the prefix directory, and
use the entire AUMHash string as the file name. This is again to aid
debugging: you can `ls` a directory and line up what prints out easily
with what you get from a printf in debug code.
Signed-off-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@tailscale.com>
FS implements Chonk, and given the expected load characteristics (frequent use
of AUM() + ChildAUMs(), and infrequent use of Heads() + CommitVerifiedAUMs()), the
implementation avoids scanning the filesystem to service AUM() and ChildAUMs().
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
Chonks are responsible for efficient storage of AUMs and other TKA state.
For testing/prototyping I've implemented an in-memory version, but once we
start to use this from tailscaled we'll need a file-based version.
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
