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EU-Funded EDOS To Simplify Open Source Development
An anonymous reader writes "a consortium of European research institutions and open source software companies have paired up to manage the complexity of large scale, modular projects by establishing a program called EDOS, Environment for the Development and Distribution of Free Software. Planners intend to move away from centralized builds and storage to a distributed process, form a language-agnostic bug testing system and turn to theoretical computer science to safeguard dependencies."
It sounds like a good idea, and we all know that options and diversity is what open source and free software is all about. I just hope that they don't pour heaps of cash into something which gets bogged down by bureaucracy. The EU track record isn't exactly stellar in that regard.
.: Max Romantschuk
Somehow the analogy seems apt. Tunes is a decade old and still has not gotten anywhere. Although the tunes survey subproject has at times been interesting, and was a good resource before wikipedia came along.
With a little luck the EDOS project will be more grounded and a little more down to earh.
Hmm. The more I think about it this looks like a funding hack by mandrake to get other organizations to help them build and test their distribution. Most of the things they were complaining about did not sound fundamental to open source development but did sound a lot like problems a distribution vendor would have.
I guess time will tell if this is a cool practical hack that supports mandrake. Or some academic proof of concept project that is generally useless for getting things done.