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1   -\section{Contributing with Free Software Communities}
  1 +\section{Contributions to the upstream communities}
2 2 \label{sec:contributions}
3 3  
4 4 %- projeto feito do jeito certo com relação ao software livre (contribuições upstream etc)
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9 9 %* Coper, empacotamentos (obs), omniauth
10 10  
11 11  
12   -During the execution of this project we made several contributions from
13   -different levels to the communities we interacted with. This occurred due to
14   -our development process aligned with those of the respective communities. We
15   -used to discuss with upstream the features and bug fixes that we was working
16   -on, this kind of discussion improve the developers' technical solutions and
17   -allowed upstream to accept our contribution more easily.
18   -
19   -In Colab we helped upstream to redesign the entirely architecture, enabling the
20   -development of plugins to integrate new tools. We also added a feature that
21   -allowed Colab to run asynchronous tasks, which was a major improvement for us
22   -since we were developing a complex system. A migration to the latest Django
23   -version was made (web framework used by Colab). Moreover, we worked on RevProxy
24   -(the greatest Colab dependency) to put it in a good shape, fixing many bugs.
  12 +During the execution of this project we made several contributions to
  13 +the upstream communities we interacted with. This occurred due to our
  14 +development process aligned with those of the respective communities.
  15 +During development, we would explicitly discuss the features and bug
  16 +fixes that we were working on with the applicable upstream communities.
  17 +This contributed to improve the developers technical solutions with
  18 +expertise outside of our team, and make it easier for those changes to
  19 +be accepted in the original projects. Having changes accepted upstream
  20 +in turn makes our life easier as it minimizes the delta between our
  21 +codebase and upstream's allowing us to upgrade and benefit from
  22 +development work from others.
  23 +
  24 +In Colab, we helped upstream redesign the entirely architecture,
  25 +enabling the development of plugins to integrate new tools. We also
  26 +added a feature that allowed Colab to run asynchronous tasks, which was
  27 +a major improvement for us since we were developing a complex system. A
  28 +migration to the latest Django version was made (web framework used by
  29 +Colab). Moreover, we worked on RevProxy (the more important dependency
  30 +of Colab) to put it in a good shape, fixing many bugs.
25 31  
26 32 Gitlab was the tool that we made the least number of modifications. We
27   -contributed with some improvements related with configuration files and we
28   -developed a new omniauth plugin, which enables the user authentication in
29   -Gitlab via REMOTE\_USER HTTP header. This omniauth plugin was needed because
  33 +contributed with some improvements related with configuration files and
  34 +we developed a new plugin that enables user authentication in Gitlab
  35 +through the REMOTE\_USER HTTP header. This plugin was needed because
30 36 Colab uses this mechanism to manage the authentication.
31 37  
32 38 Noosfero was the tool that contemplated several functional requirements,
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35 41 the federation implementation (federation with other social networks), decouple
36 42 the interface and the back-end, and so forth.
37 43  
38   -We also contributed with some DevOps tools as well during the project. Some
39   -member of our team took the maintenance of some python libraries that we used
40   -to support our scripts to upload our packages to OBS (Open Build Service).
41   -Since we were composed by many teams with large number of developers we had
42   -some problems related with the tracking of our per team/software releases, the
43   -DevOps team did not know when was the right time to package that software or
44   -not. Thus we developed a tool called copr-status to keep tracked the version
45   -packaged and the version finished by the developers, basically this is a web
46   -interface that helps you to visualize the status of that package/software.
  44 +We also made some contributions on the DevOps front. Some members of
  45 +them team became maintainers of some python libraries that were used by
  46 +our scripts to upload packages to OBS (Open Build Service). We developed
  47 +a tool called copr-status to keep track of the different stages of the
  48 +lifecycle of each of the individual packages we were working on.
47 49  
48 50 %TODO: Mezuro
49 51  
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