What’s with this ServoyForge stuff now?
Published by admin on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 03:07:00 - Filed under General, News, Announcements, Development
You certainly heard about it, you’ve seen it announced on the forum, on ServoyCamp, it soon will be in the Servoy newsletter as well…
You went there, seen it, got the tee-shirt…
Right, but what the hell is this new site about?
Fear not, Servoy Stuff is here to explain all about it!
Let’s look at the blurb, what does it says?
“The mission of ServoyForge is to organize Servoy Open Source projects into a centralized community-owned platform.”
Yes, we have a mission: we want to organize all Servoy Open Source projects, - and yes we could have called it SOS but in the end decided against it, it sounded a little bit too desperate ;-)
What about community-owned platform? To me that’s the interesting part: We owe nothing to no one, aren’t guided by any merchant agenda, - in fact the only agenda we profess to have is that we want the Servoy platform to be the one we dream about!
Are you in?
I gather that if you are still reading this, you probably are…
So how do we propose to do that? Well, still according to the announcement, the site “will enable talented Servoy/Java developers to contribute more easily and will offer innovative Open Source components to the Servoy community at large.”
So is that what it is? Is that it?
Yes, sir: A mean to communicate with other Servoy/Java developers in the world and make things happening!
To that end, we evaluated a few of the best Open Source project management/development platforms available to find the one that would suit best our needs. In the end we chose to build the platform on top of the Redmine system (another community-owned system, BTW).
So what’s in it for you? When you open a project on SourceForge, you benefit from:
- svn repository, complete with members and anonymous access, and a web-based repository browser where external developers can easily browse your code (and you can point them to it with a simple URL too!),
- team management, with role based control on the whole interface for your contributors, reporters, project leaders and other simple users,
- module management, you can activate certain functionalities at will, - or choose not to,
- sophisticated issue-tracker, with status management, role-based attributes, control over categories, time management, workflow, versions roadmap, notifications, all of this accessible from your Eclipse/Servoy installation using Mylyn,
- all activity is logged and accessible (browsable and searchable),
- news management is here for your announcements,
- wiki for your documentation (with versioning enabled), and easy to use syntax
- forums management for your own projects, with email notifications,
- files management for the release you make, and any relevant files,
- document management for your documentation,
- an easy way to be found and be part of a large base of talented contributors and reporters all working together on different projects..
So yes, ServoyForge truly is:
- the largest repository of Servoy Open Source components (plugins/beans/solutions/modules)
And it will grow!
- a brand new collaboration platform for everything Servoy Open Source Software (SOSS)
Like nothing else you’ve seen in the Servoy world before!
- best-of-breed tools tailored for the management of Servoy development projects
Go to the www.redmine.org site to know more about the amazing tools we are offering here.
- a site built by the community for the community, by developers for developers
No, it’s not really the place for you mama (unless she can code multi-theading java code and Servoy transaction aware solutions ;)
- the place where YOU TOO can share your ideas and projects with a team of Servoy and Java developers all over the globe
We emphasise YOU TOO in there because we strongly believe that it’s up to YOU to get in there and start thinking about what you can make out of it… The platform is free, it is here to be used (not abused, of course!), and with a little bit of imagination, you will find that it can be your place too, and you will be able to start your own thing, or share somes crazy ideas (I especially like those ;-), and quickly feel how having the feedback of your peers, other people involved in the same stuff, will boost your knowledge and development powers tremendously.
We already know what projects we will work on in ServoyForge, and be sure that it will lead to better Open Source components of all sort shared and maintained by a community of people… now it’s your time to decide what YOU want to do with it.
Hope to see you there!
