Tribus: a collaborative social network
Greetings,
I'm writing to this list because i'd like to introduce you to a project
i've been working on with some fellow developers. I'm a developer from
the Canaima debian derivative[0], and if you check out our page in the
derivative census[1], you may notice that we fall short on platform
resources. By this i mean, we don't have a PTS, buildd or QA to aid us
in our development process (we do have a Trac, though)(yes, we compile
the packages in our workstations).
In the last couple of months, a small group of Canaima developers have
decided to put an end to this situation. We studied the Debian platform
and the majority of its components and applications. We came up with
this idea: we wanted to merge some of the components of Debian into a
single application that we could easily build and mantain. Then we
thought about Python, Django, AngularJS, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL,
OpenLDAP, Buildbot, and many other technologies. Then we baptized it
"Tribus" (Tribes in spanish).
The project is being actively developed in GitHub[2], as you can see in
the graphs[3], there have been contributions from 6 people so far (3 of
them are developers from CNTI[3], the institution in charge of
maintaining Canaima). We have released it's first alpha version
(0.1~a1)[4] today, with the following features:
- Package index: is a pseudo-clone of packages.d.o. It's different in
some details: on the package profile you can see the information of the
package for all distributions.
- Microblogging: it's designed to be a placeholder for the other
services to communicate its status (for example, when the buildbot
compiles a package successfully or a ticket is closed). It also allows
user interaction with these events (through comments) and to publish
short messages (like Twitter).
- User profile: you can see all the information related to a specific
user in this page.
- Live search: you can search for all the types of element present in
Tribus (users and packages so far).
- Authentication: a system to interact with an LDAP that has all
Canaima users (login, create users, recover password, etc).
- i18n & l10n: it is fully internationalized and localized to Spanish
(English is available too, of course).
This is what we have done for the first public version. Progressively,
all these features will be extended as we add more subsystems (like the
buildbot, a BTS, etc). For example, if a Maintainer has a profile in
Tribus, we can render a link to its profile in the package index page,
and so on. There is an (unfinished, in spanish) mind map about the
complete roadmap of Tribus[5].
Well, i hope you can take a look[4]. Tribus is being developed with a
universal purpuse, by this i mean: it's debranded enough so that other
distros can customize to their needs. Hopefully, this will help small
and starting Debian Derivatives to quickly setup a complete development
platform.
Regards,
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[0]http://canaima.softwarelibre.gob.ve
[1]https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Canaima
[2]https://github.com/CanaimaGNULinux/tribus
[3]http://www.cnti.gob.ve/
[4]http://tribus.canaima.softwarelibre.gob.ve/
[5]https://tribus.readthedocs.org/es/latest/development/concepts.html
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