Accp webinar 27 july 2010 [compatibility mode]
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The document summarizes a webinar about the Alfresco Community Committer Program (ACCP). The ACCP aims to facilitate contributions to Alfresco's community edition through an Apache-style approval process. The webinar covered the ACCP's purpose and objectives, committee overview, approval process, projects approved so far, lessons learned, and how to get involved. Initial approved projects included a Calais integration, metadata embedders, and German/French language packs. Issues preventing approval included outdated code, errors accessing source, and lack of documentation.
Accp webinar 27 july 2010 [compatibility mode]
- 1. 7/27/2010 Alfresco Community Committer Program Webinar 27 July 2010 Russ Danner Ray Gauss Aingaran Pillai Jeff Potts Steve Reiner Mike Vertal 1
- 2. 7/27/2010 Agenda ACCP Purpose and Objectives (Mike Vertal) Committee Overview (Russ Danner) Process and Approval Standards (Jeff Potts) Approved Projects thus far (Ray Gauss) Lessons Learned thus far (Steve Reiner) How to Get Involved (Aingaran Pillai) Q&A 2
- 3. 7/27/2010 Purpose Facilitate a structured process for: Incorporating software contributions Into Alfrescos Community Edition And even Enterprise Edition Foster developer community Promote high quality software contributions to the Alfresco platform Apache-style process 3
- 4. 7/27/2010 Eligible Software Projects Any and all Software extensions, Add-ons, Plug-ins, Integrations, Etc., That enhance Alfrescos core capabilities Must meet a certain set of standards Approval through voting by the ACCP Committee 4
- 5. 7/27/2010 ACCP Committee A community-led, volunteer group Governs ACCP processes and standards Alfresco employees participate on the Committee primarily in an advisory capacity only Define the minimum criteria and standards that contributions must meet Approve candidate contributions through a voting process Communicate all actions, standards, processes, and plans to the Alfresco community 5
- 6. 7/27/2010 Committee Members Regular Members Russ Danner (Rivet Logic) Ray Gauss II (Rights Assist) Aingaran Pillai (Zaizi) Jeff Potts (Metaversant) Steve Reiner (Integrated Semantics) Mike Vertal, Chairperson (Rivet Logic) Non-voting Members Gabriele Columbro (Alfresco) Nancy Garrity (Alfresco) Paul Holmes-Higgin (Alfresco) Peter Monks (Alfresco) Mark Rogers (Alfresco) 6
- 8. 7/27/2010 Software Criteria Minimum Requirements (Incubator): MUST include an easy-to-install package. In general, this means using the generally accepted distribution approach for the type of contribution MUST have a repeatable build that could be automated as part of a continuous build process (Ant or Maven) MUST include source code. The source and any dependent libraries included with the distribution must be licensed in such a way as to not conflict with the Alfresco Community license. MUST contain basic documentation 8
- 9. 7/27/2010 Software Criteria Minimum Requirements (Community): All of the above minimum requirements for Incubator MUST meet minimum coding standards documented here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Coding_Standards MUST include unit tests MUST contain documentation that, as a minimum, includes: Brief "about" Dependencies Install steps Test steps 9
- 10. 7/27/2010 Software Criteria Other considerations: High code quality, good test coverage, useful documentation and comments Leverages Maven for dependency management, build Contribution is congruent with high-level Alfresco product direction Contribution generated interest in incubator Good ratings, feedback Evidence of end-user adoption Project lead is a previous Community contributor Project lead has a team of at least one other that can help Contribution has synergies with or is a dependency of other projects Contribution has good potential "staying power" Project lead is particularly passionate about this contribution Contribution is important to project lead's company (products, services, solutions, marketing message, etc.) 10
- 11. 7/27/2010 Initial Approved Projects Calais Integration Semantic Auto-Tagging Leverages Open Calais service to extract, tag, and search semantic metadata Positives: usefulness, organized, clean code, javadocs, Alfresco 3.3, amp, documentation Metadata Embedders Framework for writing properties into the content file Positives: usefulness, activity rating, organized, Alfresco 3, ant build, javadocs, amp Suggestions: code formatting, build instructions, more committers Other Possibilities: combine with metadata writer project, more content types German Language Pack Positives: Alfresco 3.2, Share, many contributors, recently updated Suggestions: no forums, no automated build French Language Pack Positives: Alfresco 3.2, Share, many contributors, recently updated Suggestions: better forum responsiveness 11
- 12. 7/27/2010 Issues Preventing Approval Not having latest code in source code repository Errors accessing source Missing basic install / setup doc (readme.txt, install.txt, or devenv.txt etc.) Not being updated for newer versions of Alfresco Not supporting both Share and Alfresco Explorer (language packs) Multiple projects doing the same thing 12
- 13. 7/27/2010 How to Get Involved Learn more at wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/accp ACCP Charter Project catalog Ways to Participate Volunteer (committee memberships, mentoring, ) Take lead on community projects PHP library Facebook integration MediaWiki integration Contribute projects Nominate projects Provide feedback 13
- 14. 7/27/2010 Q&A 14