Comments on: Open Collaboration within Corporations Using Software Forges

By: Our (2009) Open Source Research Agenda « Open Source Research Group

Our (2009) Open Source Research Agenda « Open Source Research Group — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:36:41 +0000

[...] John Ellenberger, Tamir Menahem, Boris Mikhailovski, Yuri Natchetoi, Barak Naveh, Thomas Odenwald. “Open Collaboration within Corporations Using Software Forges.” IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 2 (March/April 2009). Page [...]

By: Olivier Berger

Olivier Berger — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:21:58 +0000

Like most people having customized it, there are problems, I guess… maybe FusionForge can help here (shameless sel promotion, as a contributor to it myself

By: Dirk Riehle

Dirk Riehle — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:57:54 +0000

AFAIK, SAP Forge is still based on GForge, and this has remained a big pain

By: Olivier Berger

Olivier Berger — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:37:59 +0000

I’m curious: is the forge still active and running GForge, and if so which version… or maybe FusionForge ?

By: Dirk Riehle

Dirk Riehle — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:49:08 +0000

@Sanket—thanks for the comment! I’m not aware of any such “payment” system, but I think it might be up for gaming quite easily. A point of comparison might be Wikipedia, where people make lots of small typo-fixes. These are useful but frequently are only motivated by racking up a high edit-count for some reason, e.g. maintaining standing in the Wikipedia community. –Dirk

PS: I hope Europe is treating you well!

By: Sanket

Sanket — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:51:07 +0000

Btw, needless to say, very interesting read!

By: Sanket

Sanket — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:49:06 +0000

Hi Prof. Dirk,

It’s great to revisit your works on the less known/researched topics in Open Source. An idea transpired in my mind regarding an alternative organisation architecture. What if the amount of “credit” for a project be given on the basis of Commits contributed by a person ?

If this “credit” is used as a measure/qualifier for the benefits he gets like pay etc, how will this affect (positive/negative), the dynamics of a project specially in an organization using Soft Forges for internal development. I would consider it to be good use of extracting open source properties to rather closed development!

By: Dirk Riehle

Dirk Riehle — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:37:29 +0000

@Medha—Glad you like it! And I hope to see you at ICSE 2009 in Vancouver.

By: Medha Umarji

Medha Umarji — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:26:52 +0000

Hi Dirk,

I read your paper and found it extremely interesting. I am currently studying tools that support collaborative software development and your paper has given me lots to think about. Thanks!

Medha (We had met at the EUSE Workshop at ICSE in Leipzig)