IBM Jazz Edges Closer To Open Source

hhavensteincw writes "IBM is molding its Jazz technology, which helps software development teams collaborate, in the image of its popular Eclipse open source community. IBM said that today's move to open access to its Jazz.net portal to anyone to peruse its code, access bug lists, etc. puts it on the path to completely open-source the Jazz technology."

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Wall street is waking up

[britneys 9th husband]

It's good to see that Wall Street is starting to take notice of the value of open source. IBM's stock was up over 5 points Monday on this latest news of their ever-increasing commitment to open source software rather than the closed source models of the 20th century.

Jazz being tested at U of Arizona CS/CE

[shoegoo]

I recently received an email from the Computer Science advisor at the University of Arizona regarding an independent study class where this software is being tested. Here is the email:

ECE/C SC 399/399H/499/499H

Jan 14, 2008 - Feb 15, 2008

24-Hour Knowledge Factory in Software Development Research Experiment

Course Summary:

The purpose of this research experiment is to collect data on how effective the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory process is when used with software development, and collect feedback from students on their interactions with the process. Students taking this course would complete a CS C 335-style project during the first four weeks of the Spring 2008 semester. Students would participate in one of two ways:

Case 1: Students would be part of a 3-person team completing the project using the simulated 24-Hour Knowledge Factory process. This would require students to select 2 days per week (3 days apart) to complete approximately 4 hours of project work. Each team member would then save their files at the end of the day and the next student would continue working on the next day. All project communication must be done through the message board prototype provided. All development will be completed using Jazz, a set of collaborative tools built on top of eclipse, which will be available on select machines in GS 228.

Case 2: Students would be a control group, each student working independently. In order to mimic the situations of the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory groups, students would still only perform 8 hours of project work per week, but this time could be on any two days that the student chooses, (in 4 hour increments each day). There will be a much fewer number of openings for this situation, no more than the number of participating complete groups.

Course Requirements:

Each student will be required to attend an orientation session on the Monday prior to classes starting. Also, each student will need to complete daily progress reports twice a week and a weekly summary report each week. Students must also commit to work 2 days per week for 4 hours (or a more flexible 8 hours per week schedule for case 2) on days that can be negotiated before course enrollment.

Grades will be based on timely and thorough completion of progress reports and not on project progress. Instead, the team from case 1 and the student from case 2 that completes the most assigned tasks or creates the best product will be awarded gift certificates to a local restaurant in the amount of $20 per person.

Prerequisites:

Students must have completed C SC 227 (or equivalent Java programming courses).

It is preferred that students have completed C SC 335 or ECE 373 (or equivalent Java programming courses, specifically with experience in Java Swing development).

Note: Some students without the second requirement may be selected to participate on teams with students that do meet that requirement. At most one student not meeting this requirement will be placed on a team.

My brother has inquired about the details of this expirement as he may be interested in participating. The experiment administrator told him that the work must be completed on the selected computers in the CS labs as those boxes would be the only place the software is available.