RSMB now on GitHub

[Nicholas Humfrey]

Hello,

I have submitted a number of pull requests for RSMB on GitHub and the
following progress has been made:

- Builds on Mac OS without any warning or errors
- Fixed warnings on Linux
- Travis build hook added
- Markdown formatted README with sample config added

You can find the new repository here:
https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto.rsmb

Thanks to Roger for moving the RSMB git repo over and approving all my
Pull Requests so rapidly :)


nick.

[Ian Craggs]

Nick,

thanks for doing this.  I am a bit bemused (I think that's the right word) because I contributed RSMB to the Mosquitto project just out of historical interest, expecting that it would not be used, which is why I haven't worked on it for the last few years.   As you know, there is an MQTT-SN gateway newly contributed to Paho - I envisaged that and any other MQTT-SN gateways would fulfil the role.

I would be interested to know what you think would be needed to make RSMB unnecessary now. 

Ian

[Filipe Nicoli]

Ian, I guess mosquitto won't be supporting MQTT-SN for some time. It's been on the table for long and the only broker I've seen around is yours (and a dozen forks of your code).

I'm currently using Michal Foksa's fork, and even his is already 1 year without bug fixes or improvements.

I guess it would be benefical to the project sticking to one fork. What do you think?

[Nicholas Humfrey]

On 2016-07-06 15:46, Filipe Nicoli wrote:
> Ian, I guess mosquitto won't be supporting MQTT-SN for some time. It's
> been on the table for long and the only broker I've seen around is
> yours (and a dozen forks of your code).
>
> I'm currently using Michal Foksa's fork, and even his is already 1
> year without bug fixes or improvements.
>

> I guess it would be beneficial to the project sticking to one fork.
> What do you think?

Ian,

The main reason why I am interested in RSMB is because of the MQTT-SN
support. It is easier to run a single server, than a MQTT server and
seperate MQTT-SN (UDP) gateway - less things to setup/go wrong.

I agree that multiple forks isn't ideal. I wasn't actually aware of the
Michal Foksa fork when I sent my Pull Requests. Get the improvements
back into the main repo, would require going through the changes and
making sure they are approved by the Eclipse Legal process.


nick.

[Ian Craggs]

I'm not sure what Roger's current plans are for MQTT-SN - I'll check with him.  I am definitely interested in bringing RSMB fixes back into the Eclipse project so that the project code there is the best and definitive.  I had only held off because I thought that MQTT-SN support in Mosquitto was "imminent", I didn't want to step on Roger's toes, and a MQTT-SN gateway working alongside Mosquitto seemed like a reasonable approach.

My other thought is if there was a way for me to add MQTT-SN support into Mosquitto as a completely separate module internally, but it looks integrated, like a plugin.

Ian