1. Antelink Community
and issues regarding
quality assessment
Samuel.Langlois@antelink.com
@samuel_langlois @antelink
http://www.antelink.com
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2. Presentation summary
Antelink in a nutshell
Antelink Community → Reuse Rating of a lib
Antelink Community → French Maven Mirror
Antelink Release Cooker → New product
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3. Presentation summary
Antelink in a nutshell
Antelink Community → Reuse Rating of a lib
Antelink Community → French Maven Mirror
Antelink Release Cooker → New product
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4. A little about Antelink
Software vendor
First preview of the software this December:
A Source Control Management Repository Browser
the Release Cooker
Free by-product launched in April 2010
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5. A little about Antelink
5 years of R&D at INRIA
Spin-off from the INRIA
Innovation award from OSEO-ANVAR in June 2009
Creation in 2009
Member of FOSSBaazaar
Already 7 team members
Smart apps for great developer teams
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6. Presentation summary
Antelink in a nutshell
Antelink Community → Reuse Rating of a lib
Antelink Community → French Maven Mirror
Antelink Release Cooker → New product
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7. Antelink Community
Antelink Community is:
● Measure of the reputation of Open Source components
● For Open Source communities
250.000
● Based on a robust database of 160.000 open source projects
● From the main forges: GoogleCode, SourceForge, OW2, ...
● From the Maven Central Repository
● European Maven Mirror: http://maven.antelink.com
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8. Apache Commons components:
a de facto standard
Reused by
● 5% of open source projects
ever created
● 40% of java based projects
Commons-logging represents
¾ of reused Apache commons
components
Most reused components by
other Open Source Projects
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9. Try it, upload a component
How many time is a
component reused by other
Open Source projects.
● A reputation source
● Compare the rate of
reuse of your components
● Simply upload them!
http://www.antelink.com/community/
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10. From the release to the project
2nd release of Antelink Community in June 2010:
● A new scope for a more robust metric
✔ Metrics are less dependent from the release policy
✔ A stronger view of your reputation
● Rate your project with the Project Reuse Ranking
✔ Ease comparisons between projects (1 – 10)
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11. Give the spotlight on a project/week
Every week a project is on the spotlight:
● A reward to the Open Source
communities
● Check the ranking and compare it
to other Open Source projects
http://www.antelink.com/ProjectReuseRanking/
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12. ASM an OW2 project
http://www.antelink.com/blog/entry/asm_most_reused_open_source
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13. Spread the information
to your community
Spread the information: embed the widgets!
The Component Reuse rating: The Project Reuse Ranking:
http://www.antelink.com/community/rating/ http://www.antelink.com/ProjectReuseRanking/entry/asm
2d70dd1fb76fcc49c131c6d841d62532870909d0
<script type="text/javascript" <a title="ASM Project Reuse Ranking"
src="http://www.antelink.com:80/communit href="http://www.antelink.com/ProjectReus
y/rating/2d70dd1fb76fcc49c131c6d841d62 eRanking/entry/asm"><img alt="ASM
532870909d0/widget.js"></script> Project Reuse Ranking "
src="http://www.antelink.com/ProjectReuse
Ranking/resource/ASM/ProjectReuseRank
ing_ASM_120x66.png" /></a>
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14. An example : Java components
Top 100 most reused
Java components. (April 2010)
ASM: 2 components in the
TOP100 of Java
components
What about computing the
market share of projects in
the Java world?
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15. Market share:
Antelink Community future (?)
HSQLDB
Apache Derby
H2
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16. Presentation summary
Antelink in a nutshell
Antelink Community → Reuse Rating of a lib
Antelink Community → French Maven Mirror
Antelink Release Cooker → New product
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17. French Maven Mirror
<settings>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<id>fr</id>
http:/maven.antelink.com/
<name>Antelink Mirror</name>
<url>http://maven.antelink.com/content/groups/public/</url>
<mirrorof>central</mirrorof>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
</settings>
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18. Presentation summary
Antelink in a nutshell
Antelink Community → Reuse Rating of a lib
Antelink Community → French Maven Mirror
Antelink Release Cooker → New product
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© Copyright 2010 Antelink SAS November 25, 2010

19. Antelink Release Cooker
Preview next week
Find hidden information in your history
Not yet another repository browser,
but the one you need if you have already one
Coming Soon !
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20. Thank you!
Any question?
Samuel Langlois
QA engineer, Antelink
samuel.langlois@antelink.com
Twitter: @samuel_langlois
?
http://www.antelink.com
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