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Commit 9e6dcc6b3e86d52214b57c2e7ff25757383681ca

Authored by Melissa Wen
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[OpenSym] Siqueiras -workaround- to technical debts

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opensym2017/content/01-introduction.tex
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@@ -28,13 +28,14 @@ unjustifiable expending of taxpayers' money. @@ -28,13 +28,14 @@ unjustifiable expending of taxpayers' money.
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31 -Since 2009, the SPB Portal was having several technical issues. The  
32 -original codebase was not being developed anymore, and there was a large  
33 -amount of technical debt to overcome. The system was a modified version  
34 -of an existing FOSS platform called  
35 -OpenACS\footnote{\url{http://openacs.org}}, and the old SPB portal was  
36 -not being updated anymore against the official OpenACS releases. In this  
37 -scenario, the portal maintenance has become increasingly difficult. 31 +Since 2009, the SPB Portal was having several technical issues. The original
  32 +codebase was not being developed anymore, also, there was a large amount of
  33 +knowingly non-optimal or wrong design decisions to overcome (in other words,
  34 +technical debt \cite{refactoring}). The system was a modified version of an
  35 +existing FOSS platform called OpenACS \footnote{\url{http://openacs.org}}, and
  36 +the old SPB portal was not being updated anymore against the official OpenACS
  37 +releases. In this scenario, the portal maintenance has become increasingly
  38 +difficult.
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39 After some events and meetings to collect requirements from the federal 40 After some events and meetings to collect requirements from the federal
40 government and from the society, a new platform for the SPB Portal was 41 government and from the society, a new platform for the SPB Portal was