Tag: HELIOS

We’re hiring a FLOSS developper to work on bugtrackers synchronisation

We’re hiring a software engineer, for 15 months, to work on bugtrackers synchronisation

(see full version of the offered job description here — et une version en français également : ici)

We’re looking for a software engineer to join our PFTCR team, in order to complement our R&D manpower on the HELIOS project. We’re responsible for a work package whose goal is to study and implement a system which would fit in the HELIOS platform, to ensure synchonisation between bug-trackers.

The workplace would be here in Evry (France, Paris area) for a duration of 15 months, under a french CDD contract (starting first quarter of 2009). The development done during the work on this project will be contributed back to FLOSS projects.

Strong know-how in software development as well as interest for research issues are expected from the candidates. Also, a good knowledge of the open source development tools, and of the dynamics of the libre software development communities is expected (distributions, packaging, QA). A practical experience of contribution on an open source project would be a plus (typically as Debian developper, for instance).. Technical english skills will be required (as well as notions of french, considering the french nature of the environment).

If you’re interested and available early 2009, I definitely want to hear from you.
See more details in full version of the offered job description.

Adding GForge bugtracker support in bts-link

Part of our work in the Helios project will be on bugtrackers synchronisation.

I happened to notice that bts-link‘s maintainer called for help, which triggered more interest in that tool.

I’ve started working on bts-link to see how it works (cool, it’s Python 😉 and if it can be useful for Helios, and started implementing GForge tracker support in bts-link. That should help keep track of Debian bugs wrt upstream bugs for projects hosted in GForge forges (like Sympa, for instance, whose bugtracker is hosted in SourceSup).

You may find my git repo at http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/git/bts-link.git which hopefull contains my proposed changes (I’m new to git, so I hope I did everything right…).

HELIOS project has its domain

We’re busy on the first tasks of the HELIOS project… nothing spectacular to announce publicly, so far.

Still, we have registered a domain for the project (http://www.helios-platform.org/ … which currently redirects to our internal workspace on a LibreSource forge), and there are minimal informations about the project available already here.

I hope we’ll have news to provide soon about the project progress. Keep tuned 😉

P.S.: we’re going to hire an engineer for HELIOS to work with us in Evry. If you want to work on a R&D project involving Free/Libre/Open Source software (bugtrackers infrastructure, etc.), don’t hesitate to get in touch… more detailed position offer to come in the future.

Helios day 1

Just a quick message to announce the start of Helios project, whose kick-off occurred yesterday in THALES premises in Palaiseau.

The team is enthuisastic, I think, and I hope we’ll be able to provide usefull integrated tools for Application Lifecycle Management based on Open source tools.

I hope the work we’ll be doing on bug trackers will help improve the process of bug fixing in open source projects and distributions too.

The project doesn’t have a website yet, but things will be setup soon.

More on Helios later in this blog. Stay tuned.

Introducing project HELIOS

We’ve been setting-up the codename HELIOS project, together with other partners (lead by Thales), which got funded recently, as part of the pôle de compétitivité System@tic (libre software thematics).

That means that our PFTCR team at Institut TELECOM will be able to do more research around infrastructure and process of production for libre software projects.

Among the things we’ll focus in particular in this 2 year project, is the topic of traceability between bugtrackers (WP3). This topic seems quite interesting to many people I’m talking to at the moment in libre software projects (as discussed recently at RMLL/LSM) : good 😉

I hope we’ll be able to help improve the current state of the art where lots of manual synchroniation is done in libre software (between upstream bugtrackers and distributions’ ones, for instance), and deliver useful tool to the communities.

We’ll keep you posted as the project moves on (scheduled kickstart september 2008).

For more details (in french), you may see the brochure (page 4) at System@tic’s site.

Update 2008/09/17 : here’s the official description of the project we’ve just drafted :

HELIOS is a project related to the System@tic research cluster. The aim of the project is to provide an Open Source ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) portal allowing to test, integrate, configure and maintain the many components of an application. HELIOS must be flexible and extensible enough to adapt to any tool with limited developpements in order for the users to keep on using their own tools. In the same way, flexibility and extensibility should allow services providers to build commercial offer. Most of existing ALM tools are specialised into one particular field (requirements management, qualification, project management, …) but the HELIOS project will aim at providing a complete platform covering activities from qualification to maintenance.