The document discusses plans to develop a new bug tracking aggregator called FetchBugs4.me that would consolidate bug reports from different trackers using semantic web standards. It would allow users to search and monitor bugs across projects and distributions. The system is being created by researchers and students at TELECOM SudParis using open source technologies and standards like RDF, DOAP, and FOAF. An initial prototype is planned for late 2009.

1. 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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2. 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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3. “Where did I file this damn bug ?”

4. Lots of bugs in different bugtrackers
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5. Many email addresses / accounts
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6. Notifications by mail ... but...
too much spam...
and no mail archive...
since Evolution crashed AGAIN !
(TODO : file a bug ;)
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7. How will you retrieve "your" bugs ?
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8. Photo by jpre86
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this one...

9. Photo by Mountainside crochet
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and this one... ? ...

10. Photo by Vandelizer
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OK, but also this yellow one...

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

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

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14. 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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15. Imagine a bugs feeds aggregator
kinda RSS aggregator (friendfeed, etc.)
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16. Could create your own queries on
bugs facts (semantic)
and retrieve them later
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17. View bugs on a package all-over the
FLOSS ecosystem
Upstream and downstream at same time
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18. Maybe you're maintaining a
distribution package ?
or develop a program packaged in distributions
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19. Many bugs in upstream and in other
distributions to monitor
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20. Launchpad ? Yes... but...
let's focus on bugs and do it well
(KISS)
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21. Key entities :
bugs + people + software packages
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22. Introducing :
http://FetchBugs4.me/
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23. Free/Libre/OpenSource Software
hosted as SaaS, under Affero GPL
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24. Use of standards (RDF ontologies)
● DOAP
● FOAF
● EvoOnt BOM (and baetle project) for bugs
● SIOC
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(c)

25. Exports RDF/RSS Feeds
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26. And more !
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27. Semantic Tagging
Inter-linked bugs
...
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28. Notifications (ala bts-link)
Monitoring status changes for inter-linked bugs
between upstream and downstreams
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29. Bugtrackers supported :
most Open Source ones
● Mantis
● Bugzilla
● Debbugs
● Add your own : provide RDF feeds ;-)
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30. Avoid reinventing the wheel
● Reusing webscrapers and other parsers
● Bts-link
● Bicho
● ...
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31. Cache data to
minimize load on bugtrackers
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32. Exports from bugtrackers
directly into RDF ?
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33. Fostering Semantic Web and
Linked Open Data
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34. RDF used also on Desktop (Nepomuk)
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35. UGC* / friends / followers
and all trendy social networking ?
* UGC : User Generated Content
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36. Feedback to bugtrackers ?
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37. Provided by Helios project
with public funding from french
R&D cluster programme
http://www.helios-platform.org/
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38. 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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39. Who
● TELECOM SudParis
● researchers and students
● FLOSS enthusiasts
● You, if you'd like to help
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40. Want to know more : stay tuned ;-)
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41. When ?
● When it's ready !
● But release early, release often
● First prototype last quarter 2009
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42. See you on
http://blog.fetchbugsfor.me/
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43. These slides under a CC by + share-
alike license
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44. Demo of first elements (ontology
validation)