I’m passing the word about the OpenForge initiative whose goal is apparently try and foster interoperability between forges. Thanks to Nicolas Guerin for the pointer.
Great, I’ll keep an eye on that.
Excerpt from http://openforge.info/ :
OpenForge is an API (Application Programming Interface) that allows different development forges to communicate with each other. All the work is focused on interoperability. With this API, you can imagine a lot of features based on the aims:
* retrieve project’s datas
* retrieve user’s datas
* search for a user or a project
Quite similar to ideas entertained at wiki.planetforge.org
Nous embauchons un ingénieur informaticien en CDD (15 mois), pour travailler sur la synchronisation entre bugtrackers
( voir la version complète de cette annonce : ici — and the english version here.)
Nous recherchons un ingénieur informaticien pour travailler avec nous dans l’équipe PFTCR afin de compléter notre effort de R&D sur le projet HELIOS. Nous sommes responsables d’un de ses sous-projet visant à étudier et réaliser un dispositif s’intégrant à la plate-forme HELIOS, pour assurer la synchronisation entre bug-trackers.
Le lieu de travail serait Évry (France) pour une durée de 15 mois, en CDD (démarrage premier trimestre 2009). Les réalisations entreprises dans le cadre du projet seront reversées dans le patrimoine logiciel libre.
De solides compétences en développement logiciel, ainsi qu’un intérêt pour la recherche sont demandées aux candidats. De plus, une bonne connaissance technique des outils de développement libres ainsi que des dynamique des projets de développement dans le monde libre (distributions, packaging, QA) seront attendues. Une expérience de contribution sur un projet libre serait un must (type développeur Debian, par exemple). La maîtrise de l’anglais technique sera requise, vu l’objectif d’interaction avec des communautés de développement libre à l’international.
Si vous êtes intéressés et disponibles début 2009, il faut absolument qu’on se parle. Voir plus de détails dans la version complète de cette annonce.
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.
There will be some interesting content (I hope) about forges at the forecoming Open World Forum, on the first days of december, in Paris. Besides the higher education track I already blogged about, the Qualipso project organizes its second conference during the forum.
There should be some presentation of the first results of the Qualipso forge, so I’m expecting interesting things to be shown and fruitfull discussions.
The OSOR project will be around also, and some participants of our french community of forgerons, and contributors to the planetforge aggregator.
Looking forward to meet you there.
I’ve just noticed (thansk Roberto) a Call for Participation for the Track on Higher Education which will happen at the Open World Forum 2008 in a few days, entitled “Towards a Free and Open Source Curriculum for IT students”.
It will be held on December 1st, 2008, in Paris, France, and you’ll find more details here.
We have made some progress towards more CAS-ified applications installable in Debian, and now have several RFS pending :
libauthcas-perl : Client library for CAS 2.0 / AuthCAS Perl modulelibcas-php : CAS client library for PHP / phpCAS PHP library
So if you’re a Debian Developer and wish to help improve CAS support in Debian, please sponsor these packages.
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…).
