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2 presentations about Helios, Semantic Web, bugs, etc. at RMLL 2009

In the “Development” track of the recent LSM/RMLL 2009, we (Stephane Laurière and me) have presented two related speeches, about the use of Semantic Web technology in the frame of Open Source projects development. Stéphane presented SWIM : Semantic Web … Continue reading

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Quick visualization of the social network of the Gnome projects’ maintainers

Thanks to Frédéric Peters, I’ve discovered that Gnome is using DOAP to describe projects in its Git. At http://git.gnome.org/repositories.doap, one will find the complete agregated DOAP and FOAF description for the projects of Gnome and their maintainers. My collegue Vu, … Continue reading

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Excellent presentations on Development at RMLL/LSM 2009

Of course I’m a bit biased because I couldn’t attend other tracks as I was chairing the “Development” track at LSM/RMLL, and because I “selected” the speakers. I’m really glad to have welcome so many interesting presentations on development questions … Continue reading

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Mantis 1.1.8 now in Debian testing

With our help (in the frame of our work on Mantis in the Helios project), the version in Debian testing of Mantis is now in sync with upstream (1.1.8) : http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mantis/news/20090709T163923Z.html Next steps, integrate Mantis in the Helios platform for … Continue reading

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SOAP interface back in Mantis 1.1.8 just uploaded in Debian

With our contribution in the frame of the Helios project, the recently uploaded Mantis Debian package is back up-to-date (1.1.8), and includes again the SOAP interface. More details in Mantis overview in the PTS.

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after debbugs, bts-link works now over mantis…

… well, at least on my machine The goal is to be able to track remote bugs with bts-link even for your own list of (private) bugs that are not in debbugs (see also prevous post about this idea we … Continue reading

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Presentation at WOPDASD 2009 : Weaving a Semantic Web across OSS repositories (a spotlight on bts-link, UDD, SWIM)

I’ve just delivered our presentation about the use of Semantic Web techniques and on some of the tools we’re interested in at the moment for our work on HELIOS, at the WOPDASD 2009 workshop. Here are the slides : Weaving … Continue reading

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Nous recruterons prochainement dans le domaine des forges de développement

Pour info, le projet COCLICO devrait commencer prochainement, et nous devrons recruter des CDD pour accompagner l’effort de développement sur le projet. Tous les détails ne sont pas encore précisés, mais pour info, voici déjà un descriptif général de nos … Continue reading

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Extending bts-link beyond debbugs (starting with mantis)

We want to be able to extend bts-link (or -like services) so that bugs linked between different bugtrackers can be linked to each-other and the status changes monitored, as part of our tasks in Helios (see LinkedBugsMonitoring). We’ll probably try … Continue reading

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UDD export as RDF data through D2R and a corresponding mapping definition

(this is a copy of a post I made on the debian-qa list) I’ve been pursuing previous ideas about the use of Semantic Web standards for publication of facts about Debian using the UDD database as a source. FYI, I … Continue reading

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Projet Coclico retenu dans les résultats du 7ème appel FUI

Le projet COCLICO, au montage duquel nous avons participé, vient d’être retenu dans les résultats du 7ème appel à projets FUI (pôles de compétitivité). Cela augure de travaux sur la convergence entre différentes forges de développement logiciel dans les prochains … Continue reading

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Playing with soprano bindings in PyKDE4

I’ve tried and access the KDE4 soprano RDF store with python, for instance to access the tags set within Dolphin. The bindings in PyKDE4 are there, but they lack examples or documentation (other than the one auto-generated from the C++ … Continue reading

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Introducing MEPHISTO (aka SWIM before)

Mandriva (Helios project partner) introduced us to SWIM, which was later renamed as MEPHISTO, a project for “Meshing People, Hardware and Software Together” during the Helios WP3 kick-off. I’ve already blogged about it previously, so you may have already an … Continue reading

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UDD, SWIM, Flossmetrics : facts databases about libre software distributions… going Semantic ?

I’ve attended the recent FOSDEM 2009 (great as always), where a number of presentations triggered a lot of my interest. First @DebianRoom where Lucas presented UDD, the Universal Debian Database. This database groups facts about the Debian project, to ease … Continue reading

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Introduction to bts-link slides

bts-link is a very useful tool which helps keep track of bug status changes when a Debian bug has been marked as linked to another bug in an other (upstream) bugtracker. I’ve prepared some slides of introduction for our partners … Continue reading

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