SourceForge Enterprise Edition and Collaborative Development

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SourceForge Enterprise EditionandCollaborative
Development
Aaron Hamid
7/18/06
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The most important contribution that management
needs to make in the 21st century is ... to
increase the productivity of knowledge work and
knowledge workers. - Peter Drucker
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Overview of SourceForge EE

• Web application that provides hosting for
  projects
• Source code repositories
• CVS, Subversion
• Issue tracking
• Discussion forums with linked mailing lists
• Document management
• Release management
• Wiki
• Add them all up Collaboration platform

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Where do you want to go today?

• Where is the latest code?
• Check your email
• Where is the spec document?
• Check your email
• Did you fix that bug?
• What bug?
• Check your email

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Small groups OK
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Non-integrated tools

• Where is the latest code?
• Separate source control (e.g. CVS)
• pserversomeuser1_at_someserver.cornell.edu/root/my
  project
• Where is the spec document?
• Separate Wiki (e.g. Confluence)
• http//anotherserver.cornell.edu/
• Did you fix that bug?
• Separate Issue Tracking (e.g. JIRA)
• http//possiblyanotherserver.cornell.edu/
• Central administration, easy collaboration with
  others?
• Maybe, maybe not depends on scale of usage

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Centrally managed and integrated tool

• Where is the latest code?
• SourceForge
• Where is the spec document?
• SourceForge
• Did you fix that bug?
• SourceForge
• Central administration, easy collaboration with
  others

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Collaborative development?

• Shared source repository
• Asynchronous development
• Issue tracking
• Unit testing
• Continuous integration/build
• Continuous documentation
• Short development, test, feedback cycles
• Increased situational awareness

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Collaborative development Tactical

• Better developer interaction
• Better code
• Peer recognition
• Motivated developers
• Peer pressure is a good thing here!
• Transparency, metrics, accountability
• Project managers can concentrate on strategic
  issues

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Collaborative development Strategic

• Developer mobility
• Easier to prioritize and resource projects
• Easier to introduce new developers to existing
  projects
• Transparency enables better customer/user
  relations
• Better customer/user feedback and participation
• Harness decentralized resources
• Larger projects
• Accessibility to greater variety and depth of
  skills

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Forrester Applying Open Source Processes in
Corporate Development Organizations

• Conclusions
• Automate documentation processes
• Get users as involved in development as possible
• Tier developer involvement on multiple projects
• Explore agile techniques that have been proven to
  scale effectively

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Case Study JA-SIG uPortal

• JIRA
• Confluence
• CVS
• FishEye
• JA-SIG Clearing House (uPortal)

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Case Study Kuali Financials

• Microsoft Project
• High level project plans
• JIRA
• Confluence
• Embedding fixed/outstanding JIRA issues
• CVS
• AntHill
• FishEye
• Video-conferencing

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Case Study Kuali Enterprise Workflow

• JIRA
• Confluence
• CVS
• AntHill
• FishEye
• Video-conferencing

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JIRA linked application
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Confluence linked application
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FishEye
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AntHill
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SourceForge Enterprise Edition Status

• Production installed 7/17
• Single Sign On tentatively, end of July/early
  August
• PIP completed by end of August for 3 month
  project
• Contact Ron Parks (rbp3_at_cornell.edu) to get
  involved

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Notable SFEE deployments

• Goldman Sachs (Tim Hunt, Kerberos SSO)
• Pfizer (Jeffrey Metcalf)
• Verisign (Richarde Neale, SCM/tracker
  integration)
• Axciom (Trey Massingill, various template mods)
• Sapient (Jeffrety Licht, agile development)
• Fedex (..., custom tracker fields, linked apps)
• General Atomics (..., security granularity)
• Sandia National Laboratory (SSO anonymous)

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Links

• ATA web site
• http//ata.cit.cornell.edu/
• SourceForge EE product information
• http//www.vasoftware.com/sourceforge/index.php
• Forrester
• Applying Open Source Practices In Corporate
  Development Organizations
• http//vasoftware.com/sourceforge/request_info-dl.
  php?paper9

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Questions
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SourceForge EE demo
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Plan B SourceForge EE screen shots
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Main page
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User creation
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Project creation
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User home page
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User home page (projects)
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Project home page (simple)
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Project home page (wiki)
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Source Code Repository
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Tracker
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Tracker Issue (Artifact)
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Tracker Issue (Artifact) - Associations
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Search
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Search Results (cross-cutting!)
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Questions