From 7411b512810540f2636050f1bf4788a85526d3ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lucas Kanashiro Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:45:03 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] draft of contributions --- opensym2017/content/08-contributions.tex | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/opensym2017/content/08-contributions.tex b/opensym2017/content/08-contributions.tex index ee365b2..a26725b 100644 --- a/opensym2017/content/08-contributions.tex +++ b/opensym2017/content/08-contributions.tex @@ -7,3 +7,40 @@ * Contribuições para o GitLab (autenticação) * Noosfero, atualização do Rails, preparação para federação, nova interface ... * Coper, empacotamentos (obs), omniauth + + +During the execution of this project we made several contributions from +different levels to the communities we interacted with. This occurred due to +our development process aligned with those of the respective communities. We +used to discuss with upstream the features and bug fixes that we was working +on, this kind of discussion improve the developers' technical solutions and +allowed upstream to accept our contribution more easily. + +In Colab we helped upstream to redesign the entirely architecture, enabling the +development of plugins to integrate new tools. We also added a feature that +allowed Colab to run asynchronous tasks, which was a major improvement for us +since we were developing a complex system. A migration to the latest Django +version was made (web framework used by Colab). Moreover, we worked on RevProxy +(the greatest Colab dependency) to put it in a good shape, fixing many bugs. + +Gitlab was the tool that we made the least number of modifications. We +contributed with some improvements related with configuration files and we +developed a new omniauth plugin, which enables the user authentication in +Gitlab via remote\_user HTTP header. This omniauth plugin was needed because +Colab uses this mechanism to manage the authentication. + +Noosfero was the tool that contemplated several functional requirements, +therefore we made a large number of contributions with upstream. We helped to +migrate to the latest Rails version (web framework used by Noosfero), enable +the federation implementation (federation with other social networks), decouple +the interface and the back-end, and so fourth. + +We also contributed with some DevOps tools as well during the project. Some +member of our team took the maintenance of some python libraries that we used +to support our scripts to upload our packages to OBS (Open Build Service). +Since we were composed by many teams with large number of developers we had +some problems related with the tracking of our per team/software releases, the +DevOps team did not know when was the right time to package that software or +not. Thus we developed a tool called copr-status to keep tracked the version +packaged and the version finished by the developers, basically this is a web +interface that helps you to visualize the status of that package/software. -- libgit2 0.21.2