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[cg505]

Given that we're in offseason now, is there any reason to keep this private?

[Sammidysam]

Yes. Off-season competitions exist.

[samontea]

Well more yes, off season competitions that still matter exist. See IRI. I think we can be all public for CAGE.

[Sammidysam]

It's probably safer just to stay private until the robot is retired from actual competition.

[rye]

234 released their code, why can't we? It's not like releasing our code to
the public is going to lose us competitions.

[Sammidysam]

I'm pretty indifferent, but maybe an argument against releasing it publicly is that other teams could use it as reference, and thus be better than without. The chances of this are really unlikely, though.

[rye]

Especially since we've got two and a half weeks between now and the
competition.

// Kristofer "four04" Rye kristofer.rye@gmail.com

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Sam Craig notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm pretty indifferent, but maybe an argument against releasing it
publicly is that other teams could use it as reference, and thus be better
than without. The chances of this are really unlikely, though.

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[rye]

They wouldn't get invited to IRI if they needed other people's help
that much,
pretty sure.

// Kristofer "four04" Rye kristofer.rye@gmail.com

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Kristofer Rye kristofer.rye@gmail.com
wrote:

Especially since we've got two and a half weeks between now and the
competition.

// Kristofer "four04" Rye kristofer.rye@gmail.com

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Sam Craig notifications@github.com
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I'm pretty indifferent, but maybe an argument against releasing it
publicly is that other teams could use it as reference, and thus be better
than without. The chances of this are really unlikely, though.

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[braddoeswebdev]

I agree with keeping it private until it's done with competitions. There's that thing Sam just said, the fact that it can reveal strategic information that we may not necessarily want to reveal to the public, ... It might not be the end of the world in this particular case, but as a matter of policy robot code should be kept private until we're done competing with it. What do we gain by releasing it earlier?

[cg505]

We look good.
"other teams could use it as reference, and thus be better than without" (@Sammidysam). This is a good thing! We flaunt our open source approach, and this is because we want to help other teams. Coopertition®, man.

[braddoeswebdev]

Why not make the robot code public from the start then? Or after the real season is over? I'm not terribly opposed to either of those in theory, but I'm not sure the rest of the team would be too happy about it (think 2 ball auton scenario).

Those good vibes will still come our way in 2 weeks.

[Sammidysam]

We should bring this up for discussion at the next meeting. We should not only decide among ourselves.

[braddoeswebdev]

Agreed.

[rye]

If we get the same turnout that we got last week, we probably won't have
much feedback at all. Still a good idea to open it up, though.

// Kristofer "four04" Rye kristofer.rye@gmail.com

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Brad Thompson notifications@github.com
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Agreed.

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[samontea]

@cg505 the socialist in my 100% agrees with you, and realistically it won't matter that much... That being said ask people. I was just perpetuating the status quo and restating our last specifications for when we will open source. That being said my morals are completely anti that so... you know.

@Sammidysam I'm sorry, but I don't think many people outside of us will really care. Considering the attendance at the meetings we will still be a majority of the people who care. That all taken into consideration if we can get a super majority I see no problem with open sourcing it.

Also Karma man. 💰 💰 💸 💸 💰 💰

So do we want to just vote?

[rye]

I'd say the code could be open-sourced now. Besides CAGE, there's not much opportunity for someone to rip this off.

The codebase should definitely be cleaned up and prepared for release before then, though. There're .d and .o files floating around that should probably be removed, and commented code that will no longer be used should be completely removed.

[rye]

Besides, if a team is already going to CAGE, they're probably not going to steal our stuff. We didn't have any unique things either--it's not like we actually wrote anything for vision.

[cg505]

At this point it doesn't matter what the team thinks really, and we can ask them for this upcoming year. (Can we develop Rowdy 16 open source?)

Also, @rye, what are you still doing here?

[samontea]

I like the idea of Rowdy 15 being open source.

[rye]

I'm not leaving this organization, that's what I'm doing. If you kick me out, that's okay, but I see no reason to not do anything, considering the copious amounts of free time I have. Our team had a meeting yesterday, and it has been reaffirmed that I basically get to code the entire robot for next year by myself.

For open-sourcing stuff, we should definitely clean stuff up before we actually release. We need to comment stuff very vigorously, remove unnecessary (.d, .o) files, and document stuff.

[cg505]

Okay surely we can do it now.

[Sammidysam]

Yeah go ahead.

-Sam, sent on his iPod. You should be proud of him; typing on that thing is hard.

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Okay surely we can do it now.

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[rye]

Since this hasn't been done yet, shall I do it for you guys?

[Sammidysam]

If you want.

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Since this hasn't been done yet, shall I do it for you guys?

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[rye]

Okay. I will do this shortly.

[rye]

Actually, no, since I'm perceived as a threat (I guess?) and am not on the "Owners" team. That's nice.

[Sammidysam]

Oh lol. Thanks for offering though.

-Sam, sent on his iPod. You should be proud of him; typing on that thing is hard.

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Actually, no, since I'm perceived as a threat (I guess?) and am not on the "Owners" team. That's nice.

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[braddoeswebdev]

Try again.

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Actually, no, since I'm perceived as a threat (I guess?) and am not on the
"Owners" team. That's nice.

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[rye]

There we go. Closing this issue due to irrelevance (it's now public; no need to question publicness)