Quick visualization of the social network of the Gnome projects’ maintainers

Thanks to Frédéric Peters, I’ve discovered that Gnome is using DOAP to describe projects in its Git.

At http://git.gnome.org/repositories.doap, one will find the complete agregated DOAP and FOAF description for the projects of Gnome and their maintainers.

My collegue Vu, who’s researching on such social networks has graphed the following image :
which shows projects in red, and their maintainers in green.

More analysis later maybe, but the image is already nice in its own 🙂

Update : a more detailed representation is available (see comments bellow).

Excellent presentations on Development at RMLL/LSM 2009

Of course I’m a bit biased because I couldn’t attend other tracks as I was chairing the “Development” track at LSM/RMLL, and because I “selected” the speakers.

I’m really glad to have welcome so many interesting presentations on development questions in libre software projects (or with libre software).

There are much too many interesting bits to mention, and I’m still recovering from the holidays after the conference, but you’ll already find most of the slides attached to the articles (french versions) linked from : http://2009.rmll.info/-Developpement-.html

Some videos will follow sooner or later.

Enjoy !

Mantis 1.1.8 now in Debian testing

With our help (in the frame of our work on Mantis in the Helios project), the version in Debian testing of Mantis is now in sync with upstream (1.1.8) : http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mantis/news/20090709T163923Z.html

Next steps, integrate Mantis in the Helios platform for real… and maybe more contributions in Mantis, and maybe on the Mandriva packaging of it. Stay tuned.

after debbugs, bts-link works now over mantis…

… well, at least on my machine 😉

The goal is to be able to track remote bugs with bts-link even for your own list of (private) bugs that are not in debbugs (see also prevous post about this idea we work on in the Helios project).

Now, I have some bugs in Mantis, and I add a snippet like the following into one of its notes :
*** bts-link-mantis variables ***
Forwarded-To: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528192
*** end bts-link-mantis ***

And starting from that point, bts-link is able to monitor the (remote) Debian bug it refers to, and notify people subscribed to the local Mantis bug.

When running and if the Debian bug status changes, it will add (via SOAP) another note with, for instance :

This is a note generated by bts-link :
remote status report for 0000029
* http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528192
* remote status changed: (?) -> pending
*** bts-link-mantis variables ***
Forwarded-To: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528192
User-Tags: status-pending
*** end bts-link-mantis ***

The same principle would work with almost any bugtracker even if they don’t support forwarded-to tags or any similar remote bug tracking mechanism natively.

The code is here (git), for the curious ones.

EDIT 2009/07/03 : I announced this to the Mantis-dev list hoping there will be some feedback.