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Links collection about software forges: status, criticism and new ideas

Published by lcanas on

During the last two years it is quite common to hear about new software forges, but I'm not going to talk about forges proliferation in this post, what I would to like to discuss is what the next step in collaborative development environments is. Thus in order to get the big picture I spent some hours looking for scientific and "informal" publications, now I think I have a good starting point and it would be great if you can offer feedback or even improve it.

KESI: our first component for the ALERT project

Published by lcanas on

As part of the work of URJC (LibreSoft) in the ALERT project, whose aim is to increase the efficiency of the developers in libre software projects, we are about to present the first iteration of the Knowledge Extractor for Structured Information, aka KESI. This component with a very complicated name has a simple mission, that is to gather information from source code repositories and from issue/bug tracking systems and to send it to the rest of the components of the ALERT platform.

Bicho 0.9 is comming soon!

Published by lcanas on

During last months we’ve been working to improve Bicho, one of our data mining tools. Bicho gets information from remote bug/issue tracking systems and store them in a relational database.

How Bicho works

Bicho

 

ARviewer, PhoneGap and Android

Published by rocapal on

ARviewer is a FLOSS mobile augmented reality browser and editor that you can easily integrate in your own Android applications. This version has been developed using PhoneGap Framework.

Brief study of the Android community

Published by lcanas on

Libre software is changing the way applications are built by companies, while the traditional software development model does not pay attention to external contributions, libre software products developed by companies benefit from them. These external contributions are promoted creating communities around the project and will help the company to create a superior product with a lower cost than possible for traditional competitors. The company in exchange offers the product free to use under a libre software license.

AR interface in Android using phoneGap

Published by rocapal on

Since 6 months ago we have evaluated the possibility to implement a new AR interface (based in our project ARviewer) using phoneGap. phoneGap is a mobile framework based in HTML5/JS that allow execute the same source code HTML5 in differents mobile platforms (iphone, android, blackberry). It seem a good way to create portable source code. Since 3 years ago I work in this project with Raúl Román, a crack coder!!

yet another software forge: openMyWork

Published by lcanas on

Via acs I’ve seen that the Basque Government is promoting yet another software forge, its name is openMyWork. I haven’t seen either a list of features or a roadmap so the only thing I can offer is the description and the link.

openMyWorks is a project that includes the forges of the
Basque Government. It is composed by openMyForge (the forge) and
openMyDesktop (a desktop aplication). The software is developed using
the web framework Web2py

The KDE Community Working Group

Published by lcanas on

A few weeks ago Adriaan De Groot (Vice President of the KDE Foundation Board) explained us in the master on libre software
the different issues that are important to be taken into account in
order to maintain a big community such as KDE, where there are people
working together from different countries, with different timezones,
culture, languages, … Looking after the KDE community is maybe the main
goal of the KDE e.V.