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Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
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>
7 days ago
Anton Tolchanov 072e6a39f4 tsweb/varz: add support for ShardedInt metrics
Fixes tailscale/corp#33236

Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
4 months ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 3b5ce9d1bc tsweb/varz: add binary name to version metric
Fixes tailscale/corp#29530

Change-Id: Iae04456d7ac5527897f060370e90c9517c00a818
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
8 months ago
James Tucker b95e8bf4a1 tsweb/varz: export GC CPU fraction gauge
We were missing this metric, but it can be important for some workloads.

Varz memstats output allocation cost reduced from 30 allocs per
invocation to 1 alloc per invocation.

Updates tailscale/corp#28033

Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
Co-authored-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
9 months ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 3090461961 tsweb/varz: optimize some allocs, add helper func for others
Updates #cleanup
Updates tailscale/corp#23546 (noticed when doing this)

Change-Id: Ia9f627fe32bb4955739b2787210ba18f5de27f4d
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
1 year ago
Kristoffer Dalby a2c42d3cd4 usermetric: add initial user-facing metrics
This commit adds a new usermetric package and wires
up metrics across the tailscale client.

Updates tailscale/corp#22075

Co-authored-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Dalby <kristoffer@tailscale.com>
1 year ago
Kristoffer Dalby 06c31f4e91 tsweb/varz: remove pprof
Updates tailscale/corp#22075

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Dalby <kristoffer@tailscale.com>
1 year ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 354cac74a9 tsweb/varz: add charset=utf-8 to varz handler
Some of our labels contain UTF-8 and get mojibaked in the browser
right now.

Updates tailscale/corp#18687

Change-Id: I6069cffd6cc8813df415f06bb308bc2fc3ab65c4
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 55baf9474f metrics, tsweb/varz: add multi-label map metrics
Updates tailscale/corp#18640

Change-Id: Ia9ae25956038e9d3266ea165537ac6f02485b74c
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 4992aca6ec tsweb/varz: flesh out munging of expvar keys into valid Prometheus metrics
From a problem we hit with how badger registers expvars; it broke
trunkd's exported metrics.

Updates tailscale/corp#1297

Change-Id: I42e1552e25f734c6f521b6e993d57a82849464b2
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 2bd3c1474b util/cmpx: delete now that we're using Go 1.22
Updates #11058

Change-Id: I09dea8e86f03ec148b715efca339eab8b1f0f644
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2 years ago
Maisem Ali 5ee349e075 tsweb/varz: fix exporting histograms
Updates tailscale/corp#8641

Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
2 years ago
Maisem Ali 3304819739 metrics: add histogram support
Add initial histogram support.

Updates tailscale/corp#8641

Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
3 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 79ee6d6e1e tsweb/varz: use default metrics.LabelMap.Label on serialization
To not break Prometheus if the label is unset.

Updates tailscale/corp#12830

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
3 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick eefee6f149 all: use cmpx.Or where it made sense
I left a few out where writing it explicitly was better
for various reasons.

Updates #8296

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
3 years ago
Anton Tolchanov 8546ff98fb tsweb: move varz handler(s) into separate modules
This splits Prometheus metric handlers exposed by tsweb into two
modules:
- `varz.Handler` exposes Prometheus metrics generated by our expvar
  converter;
- `promvarz.Handler` combines our expvar-converted metrics and native
  Prometheus metrics.

By default, tsweb will use the promvarz handler, however users can keep
using only the expvar converter. Specifically, `tailscaled` now uses
`varz.Handler` explicitly, which avoids a dependency on the
(heavyweight) Prometheus client.

Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/10205

Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
3 years ago