Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 21:08:11 -0700 From: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Is FreeBSD really a project? (introduction to WISE) Message-ID: <33D977F7.77DB@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Let me introduce one of my recent findings; "The Web-Integrated Software metrics Environment (WISE) is the first WWW-based project management and metrics system available on the WWW. WISE is a WWW-based tool that provides a framework for managing software development projects across the Web. Programmers and managers can log issue reports, track the status of issues, and view project metrics using standard WWW browsers. WISE provides a non-intrusive method to coordinate project activities and allow software development teams to view their progress and performance." This was the description of a project by NASA freely available here: http://research.ivv.nasa.gov/projects/WISE/ It uses msql and looks awfully good for something like FreeBSD, but there might be limitations: (all IMO) I don't consider FreeBSD a project because, technically speaking, a project has precisely defined it's start and it's ending dates. The initiation of the FreeBSD project evidently existed, but the goals seem very generic, and we don't really want this end. In purely bureaucratic linings, FreeBSD wouldn't be considered a project. This makes me think we would have to do modifications on this software to help in the purpose of enhancing FreeBSD's development (was Jordan suggesting something like this when someone proposed to shoot him? :-) ). Anyway, we should test this... comments, suggestions...flames? Pedro.
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