Links collection about software forges: status, criticism and new ideas

During the last two years it is quite common to hear about new software forges, but I’m not going to talk about forges proliferation in this post, what I would to like to discuss it what the next step in collaborative development environments is. Thus in order to get the big picture I spent some hours looking for scientific and “informal” publications, now I think I have a good starting point and it would be great if you can offer feedback or even improve it.

The list of links contains papers, blog entries, presentations and reports. Some of them point out very interesting problems like the “data jail”, others re-think the concept of software forges like the paper named “The networked forge” and finally, some of the developers of the main software forges present what they do and what they want to do during next years.

Papers:

• “The Networked Forge: New Environments for Libre Software Development” by Jesus M Gonzalez-Barahona, Andrés Martínez, Alvaro Polo, Juan José Hierro, Marcos Reyes, J Soriano (2008)
• “Open Collaboration within Corporations Using Software Forges” by Dirk Riehle, John Ellenberger, Tamir Menahem, Boris Mikhailovski, Yuri Natchetoi, Barak Naveh, Thomas Odenwald (2009)
• “Collaboration in Software Engineering: A Roadmap” by Jim Whitehead (2007)

Blog entries:

• “COCLICO project’s efforts towards better forges interoperability (long)” by Olivier Berger (2010)
• “Three Systemic Problems with Open-Source Hosting Sites” by Eric S. Raymond (2009)
• Excerpt of a report made for the ministry of education calling for more forges pooling (sharing of maintainance costs, etc.) in France, by Olivier Berger (2011)
• “About software forges” by Carlo Daffara (2010)
• “Review: Free Software Project Hosting” by John Goerzen (2009)
• “[Discussions] Quick & dirty report from the OWF 2010 think tank on Open Forges” by Olivier Berger (2010)
• “GitHub, Collaboration, and Haters” by Elizabeth Naramore (2011)
• “What Black Duck Can Tell Us About GitHub, Language Fragmentation and More” by Stephen O’Grady (2011)
• “Everything you ever wanted to know about software forges (code forges), June 2011” by David Williams (2011)

Presentations:

• “Choosing a software forge” by Joseph Roumier (RMLL 2010)
• “Fusionforge, one year and a half later” by Roland Mas (RMLL/LSM 2010)
• “The #Launchpad collaboration platform” by Jonathan Lange (#LSM2010)
• “A new #Savane” by Sylvain Beucler (#RMLL2010 / #LSM2010)
• “The OSS Forge Ecosystem” by Nathan Oostendorp from sourceforge (2010)
• “Coclico project” by Olivier Berger (2010)
• “Specifications for interoperability slides” by Olivier Berger (2010)
• “Spago4Q – Quality of OSS Forges” Davide Dalle Carbonare at fOSSa Conference (2010)

Reports:

• “Informe Técnico: Forjas: entornos de desarrollo colaborativo. Su integración en el ámbito empresarial. 2009” by LibreSoft (2009, in Spanish)
• “The business value of open collaboration” by IBM (2010)

I’ll submit this information to the planetforge wiki, as soon as it is posted there I will include here the link.

[This entry is part of the work I do in LibreSoft and it is also available in my blog at libresoft.es]