State of the art

State of the art

The first version of the Survey.pdf document is now available !

Please send your remarks for further improvements.

Following is a diagram sketching the basic interactions in today's OSS processes, from upstream development to installation on the end user's machine.

Diagram1.jpg

Overviews and summaries

• Packages overview
• Problems in the current processes
• Suggestions and directions for further research

Details and ideas regarding each interaction

• Processes by upstream developer
• Development
• Packaging
• Publishing
• Processes by distribution
• Getting latest version, making changes and packaging
• Distribution to end user
• Processes by end user
• Compiling and installing

Mandrake press release regarding the EDOS project: link.

OpenOffice.org talk about distributing software with P2P: link.

• • Main.AssafSagi - 31 Jan 2005

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