Improved bug-tracking
on the Web 2.5
Olivier BERGER
<olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu>
OSDC-fr (Paris)
2009/10/03
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Intro
● Why am I here ?
● Teaser for a new cool service that's gonna
change the world
● What we have so far (demo of something very
raw)
● What can you do ?
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“Where did I file this damn bug ?”

Lots of bugs in different bugtrackers
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Many email addresses / accounts
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Notifications by mail ... but...
too much spam...
and no mail archive...
since Evolution crashed AGAIN !
(TODO : file a bug ;)
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How will you retrieve "your" bugs ?
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this one...

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and this one... ? ...

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OK, but also this yellow one...

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byeliazar
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OK, but also this yellow one... ???...

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Flickr also found this one “bugs”... not copyrighted by MPAA ;-)

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Lots of bugs in different bugtrackers...
… and with lots of different formats...
no semantics to retrieve them on Web
1.5/2.0
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Imagine a bugs feeds aggregator
kinda RSS aggregator (friendfeed, etc.)
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Could create your own queries on
bugs facts (semantic)
and retrieve them later
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View bugs on a package all-over the
FLOSS ecosystem
Upstream and downstream at same time
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Maybe you're maintaining a
distribution package ?
or develop a program packaged in distributions
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Many bugs in upstream and in other
distributions to monitor
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Launchpad ? Yes... but...
let's focus on bugs and do it well
(KISS)
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Key entities :
bugs + people + software packages
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Introducing :
http://FetchBugs4.me/
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Free/Libre/OpenSource Software
hosted as SaaS, under Affero GPL
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Use of standards (RDF ontologies)
● DOAP
● FOAF
● EvoOnt BOM (and baetle project) for bugs
● SIOC
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Exports RDF/RSS Feeds
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And more !
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Semantic Tagging
Inter-linked bugs
...
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Notifications (ala bts-link)
Monitoring status changes for inter-linked bugs
between upstream and downstreams
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Bugtrackers supported :
most Open Source ones
● Mantis
● Bugzilla
● Debbugs
● Add your own : provide RDF feeds ;-)
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Avoid reinventing the wheel
● Reusing webscrapers and other parsers
● Bts-link
● Bicho
● ...
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Cache data to
minimize load on bugtrackers
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Exports from bugtrackers
directly into RDF ?
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Fostering Semantic Web and
Linked Open Data
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RDF used also on Desktop (Nepomuk)
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UGC* / friends / followers
and all trendy social networking ?
* UGC : User Generated Content
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Feedback to bugtrackers ?
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Provided by Helios project
with public funding from french
R&D cluster programme
http://www.helios-platform.org/
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Why ?
● We think it may be useful
● It would be cool to do
● It should help promote RDF standards for bug facts
● Foster interoperability
● Delivering our funded project ;-)
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Who
● TELECOM SudParis
● researchers and students
● FLOSS enthusiasts
● You, if you'd like to help
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Want to know more : stay tuned ;-)
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When ?
● When it's ready !
● But release early, release often
● First prototype last quarter 2009
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See you on
http://blog.fetchbugsfor.me/
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These slides under a CC by + share-
alike license
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Demo of first elements (ontology
validation)