Hey Nick, this is great. Curious, have you guys been keeping things pretty up-to-date with master? How hard do you think the merging could be to get these changes and features back in to the Allura upstream.
-- Wayne Witzel III (@wwitzel3) [email protected] http://pieceofpy.com On Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 11:18 , Nicholas Bollweg wrote: > Hi folks: > I've been kind of quiet on the line for a good long time, but had the > opportunity to do some work back in 2011-12 on a custom Allura, which has > now been released, along with a raft of other interesting things: > http://cps-vo.org/group/avm > > Here are the files themselves most related to Allura (under "Georgia Tech" > and "Vanderbilt University"): > http://cps-vo.org/node/5837/browser > > Between the both of these, there is some interesting stuff: > - 3D CAD viewer... the multiuser part has a non-free dependency > - twitter-like thing > - VCS hooks (two different implementations!) > - theming stuff (some of which was already extracted out and is in Apache > Allura) > - project metadata search > - various model integrations > > One of the suites received funding beyond the date of what is posted there, > so there may be updates to come. The license situation is tricky, as > nominally everything is MITish, but I doubt/know the code is well audited, > but I happen to know some of authors, and I am sure we can figure something > out :) > > I would love to see as much as is relevant make it back into the upstream. > > According to the timestamps, this happened a while back, but I've been off > doing other things, and it was only recently brought to my attention... > basically I was a bit gunshy of just pushing my code out until the sponsor > distributed it... government contracting around free software is funny. > > Additionally, there is a current effort to transition these technologies > into "commercial tools," which does not preclude open source projects under > any definition I've ever heard, as long as somebody is getting paid: > https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=09ca3c2daa2d854bbb6de7171cdc7f2e&tab=core&_cview=1 > > I would be interested in whether the community (either as we are, or as a > more formal partnership between companies and individuals that contribute) > would be interested in putting together a proposal (9-14pg, deadline: 4pm > Thursday, 31 Oct) to transition any of the technology created by these > previous efforts into Apache Allura proper. > > I hope something of interest can come of this! > > Cheers, > Nick
