The Open Source Community Choice

2022 ◽  
pp. 548-570
Author(s):  
Morgan Richomme
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Major Interest ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Sustainability Challenges ◽  
Open Source Communities ◽  
Tools And Methods

Open source communities have had and continue to have a major influence on the evolution of the Internet. By their nature, such communities involve people with diverse coding cultures and skills. Automation has consequently been of major interest to open source software developers for a long time, and many open source tools have been developed to address code variability and sustainability challenges. This chapter discusses why open source communities must automate and the challenges they will face. Solutions and current examples of automation in open source projects are provided as a guide to what is achievable. OpenShift, OpenStack, and OPNFV communities are used to illustrate different approaches and best practices. Two recently initiated automation initiatives are detailed: “Cross Community Continuous Integration” (XCI) and “Cross Testing” (Xtesting). Finally, some recommendations are provided for new projects as a guide to ease adoption of appropriate tools and methods.

The Open Source Community Choice

2018 ◽  
pp. 299-321
Author(s):  
Morgan Richomme
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Major Interest ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Sustainability Challenges ◽  
Open Source Communities ◽  
Tools And Methods

Open source communities have had and continue to have a major influence on the evolution of the Internet. By their nature, such communities involve people with diverse coding cultures and skills. Automation has consequently been of major interest to open source software developers for a long time, and many open source tools have been developed to address code variability and sustainability challenges. This chapter discusses why open source communities must automate and the challenges they will face. Solutions and current examples of automation in open source projects are provided as a guide to what is achievable. OpenShift, OpenStack, and OPNFV communities are used to illustrate different approaches and best practices. Two recently initiated automation initiatives are detailed: “Cross Community Continuous Integration” (XCI) and “Cross Testing” (Xtesting). Finally, some recommendations are provided for new projects as a guide to ease adoption of appropriate tools and methods.

scholarly journals Options for putting CDS/ISIS databases on the internet

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Buxton
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Content Type

PurposeTo review the variety of software solutions available for putting CDS/ISIS databases on the internet. To help anyone considering which route to take.Design/methodology/approachBriefly describes the characteristics, history, origin and availability of each package. Identifies the type of skills required to implement the package and the kind of application it is suited to. Covers CDS/ISIS Unix version, JavaISIS, IsisWWW, WWWISIS Versions 3 and 5, Genisis, IAH, WWW‐ISIS, and OpenIsis.FindingsThere is no obvious single “best” solution. Several are free but may require more investment in acquiring the skills to install and configure them. The choice will depend on the user's experience with CDS/ISIS formatting language, HTML, programming languages, operating systems, open source software, and so on.Originality/valueThere is detailed documentation available for most of these packages, but little previous guidance to help potential users to distinguish and choose between them.

Key Concepts and Definitions of Open Source Communities

2010 ◽  
pp. 753-760
Author(s):  
Ruben van Wendel de Joode ◽  
Sebastian Spaeth
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Open Source Communities ◽  
Do So

Most open source software is developed in online communities. These communities are typically referred to as “open source software communities” or “OSS communities.” In OSS communities, the source code, which is the human-readable part of software, is treated as something that is open and that should be downloadable and modifiable to anyone who wishes to do so. The availability of the source code has enabled a practice of decentralized software development in which large numbers of people contribute time and effort. Communities like Linux and Apache, for instance, have been able to connect thousands of individual programmers and professional organizations (although most project communities remain relatively small). These people and organizations are not confined to certain geographical places; on the contrary, they come from literally all continents and they interact and collaborate virtually.

Weaving a Semantic Web Across OSS Repositories

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Berger ◽  
Valentin Vlasceanu ◽  
Christian Bac ◽  
Quang Vu Dang ◽  
Stéphane Lauriere
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Public Repositories ◽  
Libre Software ◽  
Research Initiatives ◽  
Open Source Communities

Several public repositories and archives of “facts” about libre software projects, maintained either by open source communities or by research communities, have been flourishing over the Web in recent years. These have enabled new analysis and support for new quality assurance tasks. This paper presents some complementary existing tools, projects and models proposed both by OSS actors or research initiatives that are likely to lead to useful future developments in terms of study of the FLOSS phenomenon, and also to the very practitioners in the FLOSS development projects. A goal of the research conducted within the HELIOS project is to address bugs traceability issues. In this regard, the authors investigate the potential of using Semantic Web technologies in navigating between many different bugtracker systems scattered all over the open source ecosystem. By using Semantic Web techniques, it is possible to interconnect the databases containing data about open-source software projects development, which enables OSS partakers to identify resources, annotate them, and further interlink those using dedicated properties and collectively designing a distributed semantic graph.

scholarly journals Bionitio: demonstrating and facilitating best practices for bioinformatics command-line software

GigaScience ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Georgeson ◽  
Anna Syme ◽  
Clare Sloggett ◽  
Jessica Chung ◽  
Harriet Dashnow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Command Line ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Excellent Starting Point ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Bioinformatics Software ◽  
Programming Practices

Abstract Background Bioinformatics software tools are often created ad hoc, frequently by people without extensive training in software development. In particular, for beginners, the barrier to entry in bioinformatics software development is high, especially if they want to adopt good programming practices. Even experienced developers do not always follow best practices. This results in the proliferation of poorer-quality bioinformatics software, leading to limited scalability and inefficient use of resources; lack of reproducibility, usability, adaptability, and interoperability; and erroneous or inaccurate results. Findings We have developed Bionitio, a tool that automates the process of starting new bioinformatics software projects following recommended best practices. With a single command, the user can create a new well-structured project in 1 of 12 programming languages. The resulting software is functional, carrying out a prototypical bioinformatics task, and thus serves as both a working example and a template for building new tools. Key features include command-line argument parsing, error handling, progress logging, defined exit status values, a test suite, a version number, standardized building and packaging, user documentation, code documentation, a standard open source software license, software revision control, and containerization. Conclusions Bionitio serves as a learning aid for beginner-to-intermediate bioinformatics programmers and provides an excellent starting point for new projects. This helps developers adopt good programming practices from the beginning of a project and encourages high-quality tools to be developed more rapidly. This also benefits users because tools are more easily installed and consistent in their usage. Bionitio is released as open source software under the MIT License and is available at https://github.com/bionitio-team/bionitio.

Open Source Software Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 363-367
Author(s):  
Kevin Carillo ◽  
Chitu Okoli
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Development Model ◽  
The People ◽  
Develop Software ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Software Development Model ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Open Source Communities

Open source software (OSS) development has continued to appear as a puzzling and enigmatic phenomenon and has drawn increasing attention as its importance has grown. Relying upon an alternative way to develop and to distribute software, open source communities have been able to challenge and often outperform proprietary software by enabling better reliability, lower costs, shorter development times, and a higher quality of code (Raymond, 2004). Behind the software is a mass of people working together in loose coordination, even portrayed as a rowdy marketplace (Raymond, 2001, p. 1): No quiet, reverent cathedral-building here—rather, the Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches … out of which a coherent and stable system seemingly emerges only by a succession of miracles. More precisely, the people behind open source projects have been defined as: “Internet-based communities of software developers who voluntarily collaborate in order to develop software that they or their organizations need” (von Krogh, 2003, p. 14). In contrast to the sacred cathedral-like software development model that gave birth to most commercial and proprietary systems, such bazaar-like communities seem to have based their success on a pseudo-anarchic type of collaboration and developers’ interaction (Raymond, 2001). However, in spite of the apparent disorganization of these bazaars, a closer look distinguishes common values and norms that rule them, specific roles that can be identified, similar motives shared by people, and practices that follow patterns. This article highlights key aspects of what forms the communities that support these projects.

scholarly journals Lesson Development for Open Source Software Best Practices Adoption

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Kuzak ◽  
Jen Harrow ◽  
Rafael C. Jimenez ◽  
Paula Andrea Martinez ◽  
Fotis E. Psomopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Lesson Development

Toward an Efficient Deployment of Open Source Software in the Internet of Vehicles Field

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (11) ◽  
pp. 8939-8961
Author(s):  
Adel Khelifi ◽  
Manar Abu Talib ◽  
Douae Nouichi ◽  
Mohamed Salah Eltawil
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Of Vehicles

Adaption of Linux SSL servers across cultures

First Monday ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Pykalainen
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Adoption Of Technology ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
International Operations ◽  
Significant Attention

Linux has received significant attention worldwide, but differences in its adoption across countries has gained less interest. This paper aims to fill this gap by investigating the proportion of Linux among SSL servers in the Internet. The findings of this research question earlier findings concerning the influence of culture on adoption of technology. Findings of this research could be useful for both proprietary and open source software companies. Likewise, by understanding the influence of culture on Linux adoption, OSS communities can adjust their activities to gain optimum international operations.

scholarly journals Collaborative Development within Open Source Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 1265-1271
Author(s):  
Javier Soriano ◽  
Sonia Frutos ◽  
Jiménez. Miguel
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Collaborative Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Open Source Communities

Open source communities are one of the most successful-- and least appreciated--examples of high-performance collaboration and community building on the Internet today. Open source communities began as loosely organized, ad-hoc communities of contributors from all over the world who shared an interest in meeting a common need. However, the organization of these communities has proven to be very flexible and capable of carrying out all kind of developments, ranging from minor projects to huge programs such as Apache (Höhn, & Herr, 2004; Mockus, Fielding, & Herbsleb, 2005).

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