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Up one levelCodendi Webinar
The past 18th of february we joined to the Codendi webinar. The speaker was Eric Pimienta he talked about Codendi.
Codendi start to be developed ten years ago (2000), it was called CodeX, by the Xerox Research Centre Europe. It's based on the SourceForge.net code (2.0 version, November 2000) and distributed under GPL v2 license. Actually 8 workers of Xerox and the community is working in Codendi.
The Codendi web site shows a lof of information, for example, the difference between the codendi versions, in the services page, "Codendi Pro Services Subscription" and other services are described.
Also they have a blog where, recently, thay announced a new service: Codendi SaaS.
About the features of Codendi described for Eric, we emphasize:
- Instant Messaging
- Wiki (phpwiki)
- Contiuos Integration (Hudson)
- Improvements in the tracker: workflows, permissions,...
- Eclipse Integration
- MyPage customizable with editables panels
- Manage the documentation of each project with a tool
- Plugin to show the tweets that mention the project
Morover, Codendi has improved the code it is based on, taking into account some interesting design patterns, a new plugin system has been implemented and some of the classes used to manage users objects into the code and so on have been refactorized. Other things like checks in forms has been improved since the Codendi team took the original code.
Eric told us about Coclico, a french project related with the forges where several projects related with forge are involved: Codendi, NovaForge, FusionForge (ex-GForge), QualiPSo, InriaForge, Picoforge y Savane.
One metrics product to rule them all
During the last couple of months some interesting things have happened in my research group (libresoft.es) related with software metrics and its application to collaborative environments. One of our dearest data mining project (FLOSSMetrics) has achieved a great added value in terms of procedures to get data from libre software projects and some of its small features have been applied OSOR.eu, the biggest collaborative environment we maintain. With the background we have in this topic (see the links below) we are in a great position to contribute with something interesting in this area to the libre software community so .. there we go.
Single Sign On with Pubcookie
A couple of months ago I had to find a solution to offer a single sign on service in a environment with PHP applications and Plone. I decided to use Pubcookie which is a good solution and has a good documentation although due to its small niche market its community is not very big.
¿"Software de Fuentes Abiertas" o "Software Libre"?
Durante la pasada semana Miquel Vidal, compañero de LibreSoft, publicó un artículo corto que enumera razones de peso por las que el término en expansión "Software de Fuentes Abiertas" no aporta sino que perjudica.
Our research on Wikipedia in El Pais
Again an article on the evolution of volunteers in Wikipedia, citing the research by Felipe Ortega, a member of GSyC/LibreSoft but this time in El Pais.
Our research on Wikipedia in the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal runs an article on the evolution of volunteers in Wikipedia, citing the research by Felipe Ortega, a member of GSyC/LibreSoft.
OpenSE project Kickoff meeting @ URJC
OpenSE Project Kickoff meeting will take place Wed 11th and Thu 12th November at URJC.
Call for Papers: OSS 2010 Doctoral Consortium
Collocated with the 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2010), a Doctoral Consortium will be organized on May 30, 2010.
New sexy graphs on osor
During the last weeks we are performing a few improvements on the OSOR metrics. The first thing we needed was to create more beatiful images and we decided to use the Open Flash Chart project. It looks really good, have a look at the page of the most downloaded project called Sextante and stay tunned for future new features in this section of the platform.
Seminar: Libre software and the real world
A short seminar featuring talks by Jim Whitehead and Björn Lundell, talking about libre software in "unusual" real-world environments: games, and public administrations.
