diff --git a/icse2018/content/03-context.tex b/icse2018/content/03-context.tex index 974cf28..18410cf 100644 --- a/icse2018/content/03-context.tex +++ b/icse2018/content/03-context.tex @@ -1,50 +1,3 @@ \section{Problem Context} \label{sec:problem_context} -During the last few decades, the Brazilian Federal Government has -improved its software adoption and development processes. In 2003, the -recommendation to adopt Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) become a public -policy. In 2007, the Brazilian Government released a portal called -Brazilian Public Software (\textit{Software Público Brasileiro} -- SPB, -in Portuguese), with the goal of sharing FOSS projects developed by, or -for, the Brazilian Government. - -The Brazilian legal instrument on software contracting -(\textit{Instrução Normativa} 04/2012) mandates that public management -must consult the SPB Portal to adopt a software solution. The -acquisition of a proprietary solution must be explicitly justified by -demonstrating that there is no suitable option in the SPB Portal. - -Since 2009, however, the SPB Portal was having several technical issues. -The original codebase was not being developed anymore, and there as a -large amount of technical debt to overcome. The system was a modified -version of an existing FOSS platform that was not being developed -anymore, and the portal maintenance was becoming harder and harder. - -From January 2014 to June 2016, a new platform for the SPB Portal was -designed and developed by the University of Brasília (UnB) and the -University of São Paulo (USP) in a partnership with the Brazilian -Ministry of Budget, Planning, and Management. This new Portal was -designed as an integrated platform for collaborative software -development. It includes functionality for social networking, mailing -lists, version control system, and source code quality monitoring. In -this paper, we present an overview of this new generation of the SPB -Portal. - -The project was developed by a team of 3 professors, 6 professionals, 2 -masters students, and approximately 40 undergrad students (not all of -them at the same time, though -- graduations and other events triggered -changes in the team). - -\begin{figure}[hbt] - \centering - \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{figures/home-SPB.png} - \caption{The new SPB Portal.} - \label{fig:spb} -\end{figure} - -Figure \ref{fig:spb} shows the home page of this integrated platform. -The development tried to be as faithful as possible to FOSS development. -All development was done in the open, and the changes we needed in the -tools user were contributed back to their communities. - diff --git a/icse2018/figures/home-SPB.png b/icse2018/figures/home-SPB.png deleted file mode 100644 index dde529d..0000000 Binary files a/icse2018/figures/home-SPB.png and /dev/null differ -- libgit2 0.21.2