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... ... @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ of SPB suffered from maintenance problems and design-reality gaps. The new
28 28 platform had the primary requirement to be based on existing FLOSS projects and
29 29 integrate multiple systems into one, providing the end user with a unified
30 30 experience. The reasons behind these requirements are the attempt to reduce
31   -costs by taking the upstream updates and internal political issues. In this
32   -sense, The Ministry of Planning (MPOG) decided to join the University of
33   -Brasília (UnB) and the University of São Paulo (USP) to develop a new platform.
  31 +costs by taking the upstream updates and political bias. In this sense, The
  32 +Ministry of Planning (MPOG) decided to join the University of Brasília (UnB)
  33 +and the University of São Paulo (USP) to develop a new platform.
34 34  
35 35 In short, the SPB portal evolved into a Collaborative Development Environment
36 36 (CDE)\cite{booch2003}. It was a novelty in the context of the Brazilian
... ... @@ -38,17 +38,16 @@ government, due to the technologies employed and its diverse features. The
38 38 portal includes social networking, mailing lists, version control system, and
39 39 source code quality monitoring. All software is integrated using a
40 40 system-of-systems framework \cite{meirelles2017spb}. These characteristics led
41   -the project to interact with different FLOSS projects.
  41 +the project to interact with different FLOSS projects and communities.
42 42  
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43 44 The platform development took place at the Advanced Laboratory of Production,
44 45 Research, and Innovation in Software Engineering (LAPPIS/UnB) and the FLOSS
45   -Competence Center at USP (CCSL/USP). It is important to highlight that LAPPIS
46   -was selected to lead SPB project for geographical reasons (the laboratory is
47   -close to the MPOG) and due to its know-how on FLOSS communities. Undergraduate
48   -interns, IT professionals and professors formed a partially distributed
49   -development team. While interns and professors worked in-person, most IT
50   -professionals worked remotely. Their activities followed the workflow of
51   -biweekly sprints and 4-month releases.
  46 +Competence Center at USP (CCSL/USP), both with know-how on FLOSS development.
  47 +Undergraduate interns, IT professionals and professors formed a partially
  48 +distributed development team. While interns and professors worked in-person,
  49 +most IT professionals worked remotely. Their activities followed the workflow
  50 +of biweekly sprints and 4-month releases.
52 51  
53 52 On the managerial aspect, at the project
54 53 beginning, the collaboration management and strategic discussions happened only
... ... @@ -91,12 +90,14 @@ project management process and reducing the mismatching between government and
91 90 academia, professors, with the senior developers' collaboration, incrementally
92 91 employed a set of best practices based on FLOSS and agile values.
93 92  
94   -The government investment in FLOSS projects, the geographical advantages, the
95   -novelty of the SPB project in Brazillian government, and the system-of-system
96   -characteristic made SPB as a perfect case study. Throughout the project, the
97   -development leaders made decisions in a non-systematic way to promote the usage
98   -of FLOSS and agile techniques. In this paper, we analyzed and codified these
99   -decisions and how they favored the collaboration progress.
  93 +Although the government initiative to work with the university, there was a
  94 +natural barrier for the government to accept the new concepts. The government
  95 +understood the value of the collaboration, and the development leaders made
  96 +decisions in a non-systematic way to promote the usage of FLOSS and agile
  97 +techniques. This context made the SPB project a proper case to comprehend the
  98 +processes harmonization between government and university. In this paper, we
  99 +analyzed and codified the set of project decisions and how they favored the
  100 +collaboration progress.
100 101  
101 102 \subsection{Survey, Interview and Data Collection}
102 103  
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