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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>
4 days ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 99b06eac49 syncs: add Mutex/RWMutex alias/wrappers for future mutex debugging
Updates #17852

Change-Id: I477340fb8e40686870e981ade11cd61597c34a20
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2 months ago
M. J. Fromberger 061e6266cf
util/eventbus: allow logging of slow subscribers (#17705)
Add options to the eventbus.Bus to plumb in a logger.

Route that logger in to the subscriber machinery, and trigger a log message to
it when a subscriber fails to respond to its delivered events for 5s or more.

The log message includes the package, filename, and line number of the call
site that created the subscription.

Add tests that verify this works.

Updates #17680

Change-Id: I0546516476b1e13e6a9cf79f19db2fe55e56c698
Signed-off-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@tailscale.com>
3 months ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 9386a101d8 cmd/tailscaled, ipn/localapi, util/eventbus: don't link in regexp when debug is omitted
Saves 442 KB. Lock it with a new min test.

Updates #12614

Change-Id: Ia7bf6f797b6cbf08ea65419ade2f359d390f8e91
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
4 months ago
Claus Lensbøl d334d9ba07
client/local,cmd/tailscale/cli,ipn/localapi: expose eventbus graph (#16597)
Make it possible to dump the eventbus graph as JSON or DOT to both debug
and document what is communicated via the bus.

Updates #15160

Signed-off-by: Claus Lensbøl <claus@tailscale.com>
6 months ago
Claus Lensbøl 6010812f0c
ipn/localapi,client/local: add debug watcher for bus events (#16239)
Updates: #15160

Signed-off-by: Claus Lensbøl <claus@tailscale.com>
8 months ago
David Anderson d83024a63f util/eventbus: add a debug HTTP handler for the bus
Updates #15160

Signed-off-by: David Anderson <dave@tailscale.com>
11 months ago
David Anderson 346a35f612 util/eventbus: add debugger methods to list pub/sub types
This lets debug tools list the types that clients are wielding, so
that they can build a dataflow graph and other debugging views.

Updates #15160

Signed-off-by: David Anderson <dave@tailscale.com>
11 months ago
David Anderson 853abf8661 util/eventbus: initial debugging facilities for the event bus
Enables monitoring events as they flow, listing bus clients, and
snapshotting internal queues to troubleshoot stalls.

Updates #15160

Signed-off-by: David Anderson <dave@tailscale.com>
11 months ago
David Anderson dd7166cb8e util/eventbus: add internal hook type for debugging
Publicly exposed debugging functions will use these hooks to
observe dataflow in the bus.

Updates #15160

Signed-off-by: David Anderson <dave@tailscale.com>
11 months ago