Re: [Savannah-dev] A new comer and an offer to Savannah

[Christian BAYLE]

Hi Laurent.

Nice to hear from you :)

It would be nice if we could integrate XeroX features in debian-sf
package
Maybe the export facility is the first thing we could work on, 
making an import facility, would maybe enable migration between 
different flavours of Sourceforge.
Do you think it would be interesting/difficult?
Nevertheless I will be happy to be able to look at Xerox source code, is
this already
available in some place?

Thanks!

Cheers

Christian Bayle

Laurent Julliard wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> My name is Laurent Julliard. I currently work for Xerox where I'm at the
> head of a team pushing for the adoption of Free Software methods,
> tools and culture in our Xerox Corporate environment (tough but fun
> job!). I have been a GNU/Linux and Free Software advocate for many years
> and the founder of the first Linux User Group in France back in 1995.
> 
> 18 months ago I managed to convince the Xerox top management to promote
> internal source code sharing in our large corporation (80 000+ people).
> An infrastructure based on SF 2.0 was put in place in Jan 2001 and it
> now accounts more than a 1000 Xerox developers and 140+ projects. Over
> time we have gained a real experience with the SF 2.0 software and we
> have customized it in a number of ways based on what we have learned
> from our users.
> 
> It has always been our goal to contribute the enhancements we have made
> to the original SF 2.0 back to the Free Software community. A couple of
> month ago I had a long conversation with Loic Dachary and we came to the
> conclusion that even though the plans are to rewrite Savannah on top of
> phpGroupware, it is a good idea to retrofit some of the Xerox code in
> the current Savannah software.
> 
> I see 3 interesting contributions right now that Xerox could provide
> Savannah with. But before going any further I'd like to get some
> feebdack and comments of the active Savannah developers:
> 
> A - A completely new bug tracking system (BTS).
> ------------------------------------------
> The BTS has been heavily reworked twice based on the Xerox developers
> feedback. Bug fields are entirely configurable on a per project basis,
> much improved search/sort/report facility.
> 
> B - A project data export facility
> ----------------------------------
> Each project has the ability to extract the bug and task data from the
> global SF database either in the form of a simple CSV file (that any
> spreadsheet or script of your own can read) and by generating a project
> specific sub-database that you can query using the appropriate MySQL
> JDBC/ODBC driver. This feature is very handy to massage your porject
> data and generate all sorts of report and statistics.
> 
> C - A 100+ page User Guide
> --------------------------
> Over time we have written a comprehensive User Guide explaining how to
> use the various services and what are the best practices to efficiently
> share your code. It is currently written in MS-Word (Aaaarghhh!! Yes I
> know, I know... but don't shoot at me yet!) and I think the goal is to
> reformat the content in a format we all agree on and make it available
> to Savannah users.
> 
> My plan is to contribute this source code/documentation and be the
> primary contact/maintainer for it. Again I appreciate your comments and
> feedback as well as your view on how to proceed to commit the changes if
> you think it makes sense.
> 
> Laurent Julliard
> CodeX Manager
> Xerox
> 
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