Bug tracking - fossa2010
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This document discusses tracking bug reports at a large scale in the FLOSS (free/libre/open source software) ecosystem. It introduces the speaker, Olivier Berger, and the HELIOS project which aims to help developers monitor bug reports across different bug tracking systems. Existing tools like bts-link are limited by a lack of standardization and interoperability between the various bug trackers. The OSLC-CM standard and the speaker's work on semantic web techniques aim to address this issue.
Bug tracking - fossa2010
- 1. Bugs tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Olivier Berger, Bugs tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS Telecom SudParis Introduction Purpose ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Foreword About HELIOS Tracking bug reports Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Goals Existing tools Problems Solutions Tuesday 09/11/2010
- 2. Bugs Large scale bugtracking tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Denition : bugtracking Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Introduction Purpose Foreword About HELIOS Tracking bug ˆ NO : Looking for bugs in the code / programs YES : Looking for bug reports for these bugs reports Goals ˆ Existing tools Problems Solutions
- 3. Bugs Context : FLOSS ecosystem tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Introduction Purpose Foreword About HELIOS ˆ Lots of duplicate or related bugs Not a single place where to monitor bugs Tracking bug reports ˆ Goals Existing tools Problems Solutions
- 4. Bugs Who I am tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 ˆ Institut TELECOM / TELECOM SudParis / Olivier Berger, Computer Science dept. / PFTCR/FOCS2 Telecom SudParis team ˆ 2 perm. sta Christian BAC and myself ˆ Introduction Purpose 2 PhD students Foreword ˆ 2 non permanent research engineers About HELIOS ˆ Research on collaborative development Tracking bug reports platforms, tools, process, in FLOSS Goals communities Existing tools Problems Solutions ˆ Previously worked in service companies (Cap Gemini, IDEALX) ˆ At TELECOM SudParis since 2002 ˆ RD on FLOSS, forges, bugtracking, Linked Data, etc. (CALIBRE, HELIOS, COCLICO) ˆ Contributor to Debian, FusionForge, Mantis
- 5. Bugs About HELIOS tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Introduction Purpose Foreword About HELIOS Tracking bug reports Goals Existing tools http://heliosplatform.sourceforge.net/ Problems Solutions Application Lifecycle Management with Open Source tools
- 6. Bugs About HELIOS tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Funding programme Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis ˆ French collaborative RD cluster programmes Introduction ˆ System@tic Paris Region Purpose Foreword About HELIOS Tracking bug reports Goals ˆ Public funding (partial) Existing tools Problems Solutions ˆ 2 years (2008-2010) (over now) ˆ Partners : Alcatel-Lucent, Artenum, Institut TELECOM / TELECOM Management SudParis, Kalis, Mandriva, Thales
- 7. Bugs Specic Goals on Helios WP3 tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis ˆ Help developers, maintainers, power users Introduction ˆ Monitoring work done around particular issues Purpose Foreword ˆ Not one single distribution channel About HELIOS ˆ Many venues for support : many distributions, many Tracking bug reports bugtrackers Goals Existing tools ˆ Redundancy of reports across trackers Problems Solutions ˆ Final goal : ease of monitoring bug links all over the Open Source ecosystem ˆ Application to Internal bugtracker (integrators) monitoring 3rd parties (OSS projects) bugs
- 8. Bugs Existing tools : bts-link tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 http://bts-link.alioth.debian.org/ Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis ˆ Bts-link : monitoring bug status change around the Debian bugtracker Introduction Purpose ˆ Debian tool for package maintainers Foreword About HELIOS ˆ Uses existing bug links (forwarded-to) set by humans : Tracking bug ˆ Distribution (Debian) package bugs reports ˆ Upstream project bugtrackers bugs Goals Existing tools Problems ˆ Monitoring status changes on upstream bugs Solutions ˆ Email notication for Debian packagers (or people monitoring Debian bugs) ˆ Supports lots of upstream bugtracker types (through specic connectors) : bugzilla (and issuezilla), gnats, launchpad, mantis, savane (from savanah), sourceforge trackers, trac, gforge (and fusionforge most probably), google code
- 9. Bugs Issues with tools like bts-link tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Introduction ˆ At the moment works only over debbugs Purpose Foreword ˆ Needs custom ad-hoc connectors/scrapers for each About bugtracker : no standard APIs HELIOS Tracking bug reports ˆ Make it more generic and not Debian specic : Goals Existing tools Problems Either : Solutions ˆ custom bugtracker data gatherer ˆ or standard for bugtracker data interchange : none yet
- 10. Bugs Problems : interop / tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 standardisation (lack of -) Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Introduction Purpose Foreword About HELIOS Tracking bug ˆ Until recently, no real standard for bugtracker APIs reports Goals Existing tools ˆ Interchange of data representing Bugs/Issues Problems Solutions
- 11. Bugs Past eorts : our Helios ontology tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Olivier Berger, Telecom Bug/Issue representation SudParis ˆ Introduction Purpose ˆ Ontology, Schema (Semantik Web standards) Foreword About HELIOS ˆ Standard proposed and community build : baetle Tracking bug http ://code.google.com/p/baetle/ Reuse of EvoOnt BOM http ://www.i.uzh.ch/ddis/evo/ reports Goals ˆ Existing tools Problems Solutions ˆ Semantic web techniques (RDF) : extensible ˆ Mapping bugtrackers data to RDF/Linked Data : prototype on UDD, bugzilla, etc. (D2R)
- 12. Bugs Our rst result tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 http://heliosplatform.sourceforge.net/ontologies/ Olivier Berger, helios_bt.html Telecom SudParis Introduction Purpose Foreword About HELIOS Tracking bug reports Goals Existing tools Problems Solutions
- 13. Bugs OSLC-CM : a proposed standard tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 for bugtracker interoperability OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) proposed Olivier Berger, ˆ Telecom SudParis standard ˆ Web technology : REST, RDF, AJAX, Introduction Purpose ˆ Open community, Open standard Foreword About ˆ OSLC-CM (Change Management) FLOSS implementations HELIOS developped in Helios and COCLICO Tracking bug reports ˆ Mantis bugtracker Goals Existing tools ˆ FusionForge trackers (soon Codendi too) Problems Solutions ˆ Many more domains than trackers ˆ WebID, aka FOAF+SSL ˆ OAuth ˆ Building grounds for forge interop standard to be elaborated at PlanetForge community as part of the COCLICO project
- 14. Bugs Demo of our OSLC-CM Add-on for tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Mantis Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Introduction Purpose Foreword About HELIOS Tracking bug reports https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/ Goals Existing tools Oslc/Web/MantisOslcServer Problems Solutions
- 15. Bugs SemWeb / Linked-Data tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Introduction ˆ Semantic Web and Linked Data hype Purpose Foreword About ˆ Linked (Open ?) Data HELIOS Tracking bug reports http://linkeddata.org/ Goals Existing tools Problems Solutions ˆ Bugs (reports) become rst class citizens of the SemWeb (RDFa, adapters, OSLC-CM. . . )
- 16. Bugs Linked Open Data tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 (Public) Development artifacts part of Web 3.0 ? Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Introduction Purpose Foreword About HELIOS Tracking bug reports Goals Existing tools Problems Solutions Source : http ://linkeddata.org/
- 17. Bugs Perspectives tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Introduction Purpose Foreword ˆ SD (Simple Deects) : Distributed bugtracker About HELIOS Tracking bug ˆ Semantic desktop integration (Nepomuk, . . . ) fetchbugs4.me someday (web app to monitor one's bug reports Goals ˆ Existing tools Problems reports) Solutions
- 18. Bugs Bibliography tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Introduction Purpose Foreword O. Berger, V. Vlasceanu, C. Bac, S. Lauriere, Q. V. Dang, About HELIOS Weaving a Semantic Web across OSS repositories : Tracking bug unleashing a new potential for academia and practice, in International Journal of Open Source Software Processes reports Goals Existing tools Problems (IJOSSP), Volume 2, Issue 2 (2010) Solutions
- 19. Bugs Copyright License tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Introduction Purpose Foreword About ˆ This presentation is under CC-by-SA license HELIOS Tracking bug ˆ Copyright (c) 2010 Olivier Berger reports Goals Existing tools ˆ Made with org-mode under emacs (org + beamer) Problems Solutions
- 20. Bugs QA tracking at a large scale in the FLOSS ecosystem - FOSSA 2010 Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Introduction Thank you Purpose Foreword Questions ? About HELIOS Tracking bug reports More Goals Existing tools @oberger : http://identi.ca/oberger/ Problems Solutions email : mailto:olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu blog : http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/weblog/