Project Overview

- A personal work of Ilias Lazaridis, an Independent Analyst and System Designer. -

Goals

Specify Requirements to an Open Source Subsystem, which ensure integration into a larger system with low risk and effort.

Isolate, categorize and select Open Source Subsystems for integration into a Coherent Software Production System.

User Oriented

  • Reduce Effort for Users of Open Source Products

Product Oriented

  • Isolate and Categorize Subsystems of an Coherent Software Production System
  • Specify further Requirements
  • Get and Overview of available Solutions (across multiple target languages)
  • Audit Candidates, provide results transparently
  • Apply Rework attempts to Candidates
  • Select final Candidate for integration into the final system

Project Oriented

  • Increase efficiency to achieve higher throughput with less developers
  • Produce Organizational Subsystems to coordinate the Human Factor

Audit Process

The "Requirements Compliancy Verification" is called "Audit". This Audit is applied to products within several categories.

In addition to several technical Requirements, selected Subsystems must comply to Requirements like simplicity, openness, transparency.

Project Leads and Team Members do not always accept suggested changes, forcing integrators to create Customized Versions, which can become quickly unmanageable.

Thus, efficient Open Source Integration depends highly on the Human Factor, which becomes and integral part of any "Open Source Stack" Definition.

(see e.g.: wiki:Egoism)

The weaknesses of the Open Source Product, the Code Base, the producing Project, the surrounding Community and the Leadership are transparently presented. Users have this way a reduced effort to verify the results.

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Produced Subsystems

  • Audit of Open Source Projects and Products
  • Requirements Sets subjecting Subsystems related to SW Production
  • Organizational Subsystems, with the goal to coordinate the Human Factor.

History

You can find a full background description within the Activity History