Savane behind the scenes

Past Collaboration between Savane and CERN

Current plans :

data export

documentation management

Future directions

Overview

Web-based software development platform

Adopted & customized by LCG at CERN

Close collaboration between Savane and CERN

exposure to a large community (mutual benefits)

LCG:	> 160 projects and 1600 users	> 9000 items posted last year

Other instances:	> 3000 projects and 45000 users

Past collaboration between Savane and CERN

User management improvement (Feb. 2003)

Common code base for trackers (Nov. 2003)

Automatic field-update (Nov. 2004)

Current plans: Data ‘export’

What for?

help writing releases notes

statistics on item management

etc.

How ?

request via the web interface (as for browsing items)

output as XML files (including DTD/Schema)

Current plans: the Cookbook

Submit/Edit cookbook “recipes” as items of an other instance of the Savane common tracker

as such, it will:

be available for both Savane and project specific ‘howto’s

offer search / browse facilities

Show “recipes” to end-user in a clean and concise doc-style

Provide contextual links to “recipes” in other pages

Future directions

Mail interface to trackers

SCM interface to trackers

data ‘import’ (migration from other tracking systems)

automated QA tests of Savane

CVS commit with log message like “Doing blu (bug #2150)”

“Doing blu” automatically added as comment to bug #2150

Savane behind the scenes

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2005-11-18T07:50:08