News - OSSMETER Project2024-03-28T15:43:58Zhttp://www.ossmeter.org/forum/feed/allMARKOS Project, First Prototype Releasedhttp://www.ossmeter.org/forum/markos-project-first-prototype-released2014-10-17T09:46:37.000Z2014-10-17T09:46:37.000ZMARKOS Projecthttp://www.ossmeter.org/members/MARKOSProject<div><p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://markosproject.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">MARKOS Project</a> is aimed to realize the prototype of a service and an interactive application providing an integrated view on the Open Source projects available the on web, focusing on functional, structural and licenses aspects of software code.</p><p><strong><em>The First MARKOS Prototype is now available at</em> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://demo.markosproject.eu/">http://demo.markosproject.eu/</a></strong></p><p>You have now the opportunity to try the First MARKOS Prototype, test it and contribute to the development of MARKOS service providing your feedbacks.</p><p>To start testing MARKOS you just need a web browser.</p><p>MARKOS is an open source tool with a Web-based interface to inspect the code structure and possible license issues of Open Source Software available on public forges. MARKOS is based on source code lightweight fact extraction, heuristics to identify software dependencies, and automatic legal reasoning to identify license issues.</p><p><strong> </strong>The MARKOS demonstrator is in its final development phase, and already support the following key features:</p><ul><li>Indexing and analysis of 630 Java OSS projects (for a total of 1,633 releases) available on forges such as Apache and SourceForge.</li><li>Easy searching for specific components based on their type and on different kind of license compatibility constraints.</li><li>Browsing and navigating of source code and dependencies across projects; for example, to follow the inheritance hierarchy across classes defined by different projects, to find projects that implements a specific API, to discover the provenance of a library and source code files.</li><li>Coarse automatic license analyses, to quickly work out whether a project risks infringing the license of copied code or used libraries.</li><li>Detailed analysis of license compatibility issues, providing developers and lawyers with tools for creating arguments from semantic models of copyright law, as well as visualising these arguments using argument maps.</li><li>A linked data API that allows expert users and third-party applications to get RDF descriptions and to perform complex SPARQL queries for searching code information via MARKOS</li></ul><p><strong>Provide your Feedback</strong></p><p>We have been developing MARKOS for a while. Now is your time to experiment and give us feedback or suggest improvements through the <strong>“Give us Feedback” link included in the Demo.</strong></p><p>As the prototype is still under development, the number of analysed forges and projects cannot be huge and not all kind of data are available for all the projects. We do not ask you to evaluate the completeness of the information provided by the MARKOS prototype, but the utility of the offered features.</p><p><strong>MARKOS on SourceForge</strong></p><p>MARKOS Project software code is also available on SourceForge for download. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/markosproject/" target="_blank">Join the Community.</a></p><p><strong>Follow us</strong></p><p>We are developing the support for additional forges and other programming languages other than Java. Also other additional features will come in the next months… Stay tuned to discover the novelties</p><p></p></div>Meet OSSMETER at Open World Forum European Collaborative Innovation Track in Paris on Oct 31!! http://www.openworldforum.paris/en/tracks/238#talk_283http://www.ossmeter.org/forum/meet-ossmeter-at-open-world-forum-european-collaborative-innovati2014-10-15T11:44:43.000Z2014-10-15T11:44:43.000ZAlessandra Bagnatohttp://www.ossmeter.org/members/AlessandraBagnato<div><p>OSSMETER will be presented at the Open World Forum European Collaborative Innovation Track on Oct 31 in Paris!! Please check out our presentation at http://www.openworldforum.paris/en/tracks/238#talk_283 #owf14</p><p>See you in Paris at the Eurosite Georges V! http://www.openworldforum.paris/en/</p><p></p><p></p><h1 class="page-title">Track: European Collaborative Innovation</h1><p>Theme: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.openworldforum.paris/en/think/">THINK</a></p><p>Room: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.openworldforum.paris/en/rooms/64">Bruxelles</a></p><p>On: Oct 31, 2014, from 13:30 to 15:35</p><h3 style="margin: 10px 0;">14:30 - Automated Measurement and Analysis of Open Source Software, the OSSMETER EU Project</h3><p>Duration: 15 minutes</p><p>Speakers: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.openworldforum.paris/en/speakers/107/">Alessandra Bagnato</a> (Research Scientist & Project Manager, SOFTEAM)</p><p>OSSMETER aims to extend the state-of-the-art in the field of automated analysis and measurement of open-source software (OSS), and develop a platform that will support decision makers in the process of discovering, comparing, assessing and monitoring the health, quality, impact and activity of open-source software. To achieve this OSSMETER will compute trustworthy quality indicators by performing advanced analysis and integration of information from diverse sources including the project metadata, source code repositories, communication channels, bug tracking systems of OSS projects. OSSMETER does not aim at building another OSS forge but instead at providing a metaplatform for analysing existing OSS projects that are developed in existing OSS forges and foundations such as SourceForge, Google Code, GitHub, Eclipse, Mozilla and Apache.</p><p>Deciding whether an open source software (OSS) meets the required standards for adoption in terms of quality, maturity, activity of development and user support is not a straightforward process as it involves exploring various sources of information including its source code repositories to identify how actively the code is developed, which programming languages are used, how well the code is commented, whether there are unit tests etc., communication channels such as newsgroups, forums and mailing lists to identify whether user questions are answered in a timely and satisfactory manner, to estimate the number of experts and users of the software, its bug tracking system to identify whether the software has many open bugs and at which rate bugs are fixed, and other relevant metadata such as the number of downloads, the license(s) under which it is made available, its release history etc. This task becomes even more challenging when one needs to discover and compare several OSS projects that o*er software of similar functionality (e.g. there are more than 20 open source XML parsers for the Java programming language ) and make an evidence-based decision on which one should be selected for the task at hand. Moreover, even when a decision has been made for the adoption of a particular OSS product, decision makers need to be able to monitor whether the OSS project continues to be healthy, actively developed and adequately supported throughout the lifecycle of the software development project in which it is used, in order to identify and mitigate any risks emerging from a decline in the quality indicators of the project in a timely manner.</p><p>Previous work in the field of OSS analysis and measurement has mainly concentrated on analysing the source code behind OSS software to calculate quality indicators and metrics. OSSMETER aims to extend the scope and e<em>ectiveness of OSS analysis and measurement with novel contributions on languageagnostic and language-specific methods for source code analysis, but also proposes using state-of-theart Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text mining techniques such as question/answer extraction, sentiment analysis and thread clustering to analyse and integrate relevant information extracted from communication channels (newsgroups, forums, mailing lists), and bug tracking systems supporting OSS projects, in order to provide a more comprehensive picture of the quality indicators of OSS projects and facilitate better evidence-based decision making and monitoring. OSSMETER also aims at providing metamodels for capturing the meta-information relevant to OSS projects (e.g. types and details of source code repositories, communication channels and bug tracking systems, types of licences, number of downloads etc.), and e</em>ective quality indicators, in a rigorous and consistent manner that will enable direct comparison between OSS projects. These contributions will be integrated in the form of an extensible cloud-based platform through which users can register, discover and compare OSS projects, but which can also be extended in order to support quality analysis and monitoring of proprietary software development projects.</p><p>To achieve its aims, OSSMETER brings together experts in domain modelling (UDA), source code analysis (CWI), text mining (UNIMAN), open source development and software engineering (YORK), with industrial partners from diverse business domains, and under the guidance of an advisory board of internationally recognised experts in the field of OSS development and analysis . The provided platform will be a highly valuable supporting tool for:</p><ul><li>Developers and Project Managers who are responsible for deciding on the adoption of OSS, as it will enable them to make decisions on hard facts and uniform quality indicators;</li><li>Developers of OSS as it will enable them to monitor the quality of the OSS projects they contribute to, promote the OSS they contribute to using independently-calculated and trustworthy quality indicators, and identify related projects for establishing synergies with;</li><li>Funding Bodies that are funding ICT projects which produce OSS, as it will allow them to monitor the quality and assess the impact of the produced software even after the end of the projects.</li></ul><p>The presentation will also showcase the usage of OSSMETER within the Softeam Open Source Modelio Modeling Tool.</p><p></p></div>OSSMETER will be presented at the @Cloud_WorldExpo in #Parishttp://www.ossmeter.org/forum/ossmeter-will-be-presented-at-the-cloud-worldexpo-in-paris2014-04-07T16:06:46.000Z2014-04-07T16:06:46.000ZAlessandra Bagnatohttp://www.ossmeter.org/members/AlessandraBagnato<div><p>Come to see us this Wed 9th April 2014, within the Atelier Open Cloud Forum <br/><br/>http://www.cloudcomputing-world.com/info_event/146/-demonstrations-open-cloud.html<br/><br/>Démonstrations Open Cloud<br/>Ocean, OpenCloudware, Ingeoclouds, OSSMeter, ModaClouds</p></div>OSSMETER @ E2 Software & Services, Cloud Computing Concertation Meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, 12th March 2014http://www.ossmeter.org/forum/ossmeter-e2-software-services-cloud-computing-concertation-meetin2014-03-07T09:07:24.000Z2014-03-07T09:07:24.000ZAlessandra Bagnatohttp://www.ossmeter.org/members/AlessandraBagnato<div><p>OSSMETER project will be at the <strong>E2 Software & Services, Cloud Computing Concertation Meeting</strong> in Brussels on Wednesday, 12th March 2014.</p><p>Please find the agenda of the event at http://www.cloudwatchhub.eu/concertation_meeting_agenda</p></div>OSSMETER Project Meeting 4-5 March at L'Aquilahttp://www.ossmeter.org/forum/ossmeter-project-meeting-4-5-march-at-l-aquila2014-03-01T23:46:27.000Z2014-03-01T23:46:27.000ZScott Hansenhttp://www.ossmeter.org/members/2fzhlu8fkset3<div><p>The OSSMETER project partners will have a project meeting 4-5 March 2014 hosted by the <a href="http://www.univaq.it/en/index.php" target="_blank">University of L'Aquila</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.univaq.it/en/section.php?id=1435"><img class="align-center" src="http://www.univaq.it/en/include/utilities/blob.php?table=dipartimento_postgelmini&id=4&item=foto&width=500" width="500" /></a>The meeting will include a developers workshop to address additional metrics for analysis of open source software.</p>
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