@conference {1205, title = {Weaving~a~Semantic~Web~across~OSS~repositories: a~spotlight~on~bts-link,~UDD,~SWIM}, booktitle = {4th Workshop on Public Data about Software Development (WoPDaSD 2009)}, year = {2009}, note = {position paper; non-experimental}, abstract = {Several public repositories and archives of facts about libre software projects, developed either by open source communities or by research communities, have been flourishing over the Web in the recent years. These enable new analysis and support new quality assurance tasks. By using Semantic Web techniques, the databases containing data about open-source software projects development can be interconnected, hence letting OSS partakers identify resources, annotate them and further interlink them using dedicated properties, collectively designing a distributed semantic graph. Such links expressed with standard Semantic techniques are paving the way to new applications (including ones meant for {\textquotedblleft}end-users{\textquotedblright}). For instance this may have an impact on the way research efforts are conducted (less fragmented), and could also be used by development communities to improve Quality Assurance tasks. A goal of the research conducted within the HELIOS project, is to address bugtracker synchronization issues. For that, the potential of using Semantic Web technologies in navigating between many different bugtracker systems scattered all over the open source ecosystem is being investigated. This position paper presents some existing tools, projects and models proposed by OSS actors that are complementary to research initiatives, and that are likely to lead to useful future developments: UDD (Ultimate Debian Database) and bts-link, developed by the Debian community, and SWIM (Semantic Web enabled Issue Manager) developed by Mandriva. The HELIOS team welcomes comments on the future paths that can be considered in using the Semantic Web approach for improving these projects. }, keywords = {bts-link, bug tracker, bugzilla, debian, ecosystem, helios, mandriva, semantic Web, swim, udd}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/HELIOS-WOPDASD-improved-Olivier.pdf}, author = {Olivier Berger and Valentin Vlasceanu and Christian Bac and Lauri{\`e}re, St{\'e}phane} } @conference {725, title = {EDOS: Environment for the Development and Distribution of Open Source Software}, booktitle = {OSS2005: Open Source Systems }, year = {2005}, pages = {66-70}, abstract = {The open-source software community is now comprised of a very large and growing number of contributors and users. The GNU/Linux operating system for instance has an estimated 18 million users worldwide and its contributing developers can be counted by thousands. The critical mass of contributors taking part in various opensource projects has helped to ensure high quality for open source software. However, despite the achievements of the open-source software industry, there are issues in the production of large scale open-source software (OSS) such as the GNU/Linux operating system that have to be addressed as the numbers of users, of contributors, and of available applications grow. EDOS is a European project supported by IST started October 2004 and ending in 2007, whose objective is to provide a new generation of methodologies, theoretical models, technical tools and quality models specifically tailored to OSS engineering and to software distribution over the Interne...}, url = {http://pascal.case.unibz.it/handle/2038/737}, author = {Abiteboul, Serge and Leroy, Xavier and Vrdoljak, Boris and Di Cosmo, Roberto and Fermigier, St{\'e}fane and Lauri{\`e}re, St{\'e}phane and Lepied, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Pop, Radu and Villard, Florent and Smets, Jean-Paul and Bryce, Ciar{\'a}n and Dittrich, Klaus R. and Milo, Tova and Sagi, Assaf and Shtossel, Yotam and Panto, Eleonora} }