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Saturday 3 October 2009

First public conference about fetchbugs4.me

By Olivier on Saturday 3 October 2009, 15:00

We're in the process of developping the technology that will operate fetchbugs4.me, but we feel the need to create some publicity about it to try and gather some interest and useful comments in the bugtracker community, and more generally among potentially interested users.

So here's the first set of slides : "Bugtracking on the Web 2.5" that Olivier Berger has been presenting today at the OSDC.fr conference.

See it on slideshare : Bugtracking on the Web 2.5

What we have so far is a demonstrator (webcast in another post) using real bugs facts to validate the interest of the approach and the correctness of the ontology to represent bug facts. This is a first mandatory step, and the next tasks will be to develop a real prototype of a system that can offer a minimum service to its users, with a reasonably useable interface ;)

Stay tuned for more progress.

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Demonstrator on Debian and Mandriva bugs (webcast)

By Olivier on Saturday 3 October 2009, 08:16

In order to validate the ontology that we're designing to represent bug facts, we have used D2R (a relational database exporter mapping tables and columns to object-oriented entities on the Semantic Web producing RDF), to produce RDF descriptions of bugs that can be queried in order to navigate the bugs of two distributions as one single set.

We have created a webcast of this, as it requires a firefox plugin (Tabulator) to be rendered, hoping that it can provide an interesting demo of the kind of queries that may be possible with fetchbugs4.me once all bugs from all bugtrackers are modeled using the same standard format.

The example is to gather all bugs from the Debian and Mandriva bugtrackers about JUnit.

Here's the flash webcast created using wink.

This is very early proof of concept which in no way represents what fetchbugs4.me will look like, but it definitely illustrates the kind of interlinking made possible by the use of the Semantic Web standards to represent things that lived previously inside their own bugtracker's databases (silos).

We gratefully thank Mandriva and Debian (UDD maintainers) for having helped us get this sample data from their bugs in order to develop the ontology and test it (in the frame of the Helios project).

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Wednesday 9 September 2009

Alphabet 101

By Andrei on Wednesday 9 September 2009, 16:46

We are working on finalizing the specs and the plans for the website. Meanwhile, if you don't have anything special to do, you could check if your favorite RSS client can speak meta data like RDF, for example. ;)

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Coming soon to a web site next to you

By Olivier on Wednesday 9 September 2009, 07:21

We're working on trying to setup a first prototype for fetchbugs4.me.

Please be patient, and don't hesitate to ask for more details at our contact@- email.

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