Qualipso

Qualipso

Qualipso is an EU Integrated Project started 2006 and ending in 2010. The project aims at making a major contribution to the state of the art and practice of Open Source Software. The goal is to define and implement technologies, procedures and policies to leverage the Open Source Software development current practices to sound and well recognised and established industrial operations. The project brings together software companies, application solution developers and research institutions and will be driven by the need for having for OSS software the appropriated level of trust which makes OSS development an industrial and wide accepted practice. To reach this goal the QualiPSo project will define, deploy and launch the QualiPSo Competence Centres in Europe, Brazil and China.

Among other objectives, Qualipso aims at creating the "Qualipso factory", a new generation forge for OSS development. This page describes what the Qualipso activities consist of, and studies possibly synergies between EDOS and Qualipso.

Qualipso web site: http://www.qualipso.eu (to be available February 2007)

Slides presenting Qualipso: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/download.php/16,271/QualiPSo_PM_Oct4.pdf

Possible EDOS/Qualipso synergies

WP2

• the Qualipso factory should be able to use the WP2 tools in the case of a Linux distribution project managed by the factory
• we may consider generalizing the formal management of dependencies for packages to the case of other complex component systems such as OSGi?

WP3

• the Qualipso factory should be able to instantiate the EDOS QA framework as a QA component
• the EDOS QA framework could be generalized to any complex component systems

WP4

• EDOS P2P could be used as a dissemination component within the Qualipso factory

WP5

• The PRM model could be used and enhanced by Qualipso for modelling the OSS artifacts and processes. The Qualipso factory would then implement precisely the model.
• The WP5 metrics could be instantiated by the Qualipso factory

Qualipso activities

Activity 1 - Legal Issues

• WP1.1 - European Open Source licenses
• WP1.2 - Licenses for documentation
• WP1.3 - Compatibility
• WP1.4 - IPR tracking
• WP1.5 - Liabilities and risk management

Activity 2 - Business Models

• WP2.1. Integration of Open Source into industrial systems
• WP2.2. Strategies for industry towards Open Source communities and vice versa
• WP2.3. Business models for systems comprising Open Source

Activity 3 - Interoperability

• WP3.1 - Technical Interoperability
• WP3.2 - Semantic Interoperability
• WP3.3 - Organizational Interoperability

Activity 4 - Documentation and Information Management

• WP4.1 - Analysis of industrial requirements as for information management in open source projects
• WP4.2- Analysis of information formats and definition of requeriments for Information Management Environment
• WP4.3 - Definition and prototyping of tools required for the collaborative platform
• WP4.4 - Experimentation with prototyped tools

Activity 5 - Trustworthy Results

• WP5.1 - Elicitation of the corporate goals of the European software industry as for OSS trustworthiness
• WP5.2 - Analysis of relevant open source projects and artefacts
• WP5.3 - Definition of relevant factors for trustworthiness
• WP5.4 - Definition of standard test approaches, test suites, and benchmarks of Open Source Software
• WP5.5 - Definition and building of the tools required for the collaborative platform
• WP5.6 - Experimentation and model building

Activity 6 - Trustworthy Process

• WP6.1 - Analysis of the clusters of Open Source processes in OS Communities and in companies
• WP6.2 - Identification of the trustworthiness elements in the processes
• WP6.3 - Definition of a CMM-like model for OSS systems development
• WP6.4 - Identification, specification, and development of tools to support the CMM-like model for OSS system development
• WP6.5 - Experimentation support

Activity 7 - QualiPSo Factory

• WP7.1 - Specifications, tools identitifiactions, developments and integration for the collaborative environment
• WP7.2 - Specifications, tools identitifiactions, developments and integration for the development environment
• WP7.3 - Compiling, collecting all the pre-requisites and specifications from the others activities, integration of the tools , documentations and guidelines produced
• WP7.4 : Specifications, tools identitifiactions, developments and integration for the users environment

Activity 8 - QualiPSo Competence Centre

• WP8.1 - Competence Center for Open Source: State of the Art: Analysis of most important aspects of open source Competence Centre
• WP8.2 - Competence Centre Organisation: Definition of Governance and legal framework, Business model & services to provide, P&L & development plan.
• WP8.3 - Experimentation of QualiPSo results in a Mission Critical Environment
• WP8.4 - Competence Centres Instantiation (Roll Out Process, Documentation & Training) : 2 in Europe, 1 in China, 1 in Brazil
• WP8.5 - Competence Centres Operations Management