Lessons learned from an open-source university project

  • Authors:

  • P. Basdaras;K. Chalkias;A. Chatzigeorgiou;I. Deligiannis;P. Tsakiri;N. Tsantalis

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

  • Venue:
  • ICCOMP'06 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Open-source software development has become a widespread trend within the software engineering community and has begun to attract the attention of other disciplines as well. To help students understand the practices used within the open-source movement and to initiate an effort for logging all aspects of the software development process, our Laboratory has set up an open-source project targeting undergraduate and postgraduate computer science students. The main aim of the project is to systematically record architecture and code related information as well as "soft" issues related to the individuals that take part in the development. The paper discusses results and conclusions drawn from this project.