An open source software forge for European projects

ABSTRACT

Open Source is an increasingly interesting vehicle for dissemination of project results within the R&D and ICT FP7 communities. PROSE, an FP7 ICT project, is promoting open source adoption by creating a software forge that provides project management, source code hosting, and development support for the ICT and European open source projects. In this paper we present the key requirements for a software forge resulting from a public consultation of projects in the European space, and the corresponding instantiation of an open source software forge, publicly available at opensourceprojects.eu. We also discuss the relevance of a centralized collaboration platform for European projects, and the value presented by such an approach as opposed to current source code repositories.

References

1. PROSE, Promoting Open Source in European Projects -- FP-7-2012-ICT-8, URL: http://www.ict-prose.eu
2. FLOSSMETRICS -- Free/Libre and Open Source Software Metrics, FP-6-2005-IST-5, URL: http://flossmetrics.org
3. OSSMETER - EU FP7 STREP Project on Automated Measurement and Analysis of Open Source Software, URL: http://ossmeter.eu/
4. MARKOS, The Market for Open Source, FP-7-2012-ICT-8, URL: http://www.markosproject.eu.
5. Apache Allura (incubated), Forge Software for the development of software projects. URL: http://incubator.apache.org/allura

Index Terms

• Social and professional topics

  • Professional topics

    • Management of computing and information systems

      • Software management