Do you know any open-source project in EDA (Electronic Design Automation) looking for C++ programmers?
You might be able to get into gEDA if you hang out on their mailing list. Details: http://www.gpleda.org/developer.html
I dig up this old topic, but we from the KiCad EDA project still searching for new developers and testers. KiCad is a GPL'ed suite for drawing schematics, printed circuit boards and viewing gerbers. Its written in C++ with the wxWidgets toolkit and is able to work native on Windows, Linux/BSD and Mac OSX.
Read more about the project at:
http://www.kicad-eda.org
And the project is now hosted at launchpad.
You might want to talk to the owners of Icarus Verilog or Verilator. There are a host of other tools on freshmeat too which are into EDA and open source.
We extensively used Electric during our VLSI and Microelectronics classes. The project is sponsored by Sun and may soon get orphaned in the post Oracle days. It will be worthwhile contacting them and offering assistance. It is a great tool worth supporting.
I don't know of any that are actively looking for C++ software developers.
However, if you implement or improve a feature, or fix a bug, you can make a pull request from their open-source repository. E.g., take a conference paper from DAC/ICCAD, implement it and integrate it into the open-source repository.
Some examples below are stuff to experiment with and learn from.
Xyce (best open-source circuit simulator): https://xyce.sandia.gov/index.html
The EPFL Logic Synthesis Libraries: https://github.com/lsils/lstools-showcase
EDA projects that are part of the OpenROAD program/initiative: https://theopenroadproject.org/
If you check out research papers from DAC, ICCAD, and DATE (the top research conferences in EDA), you can find some software developments releasing their work as open source on Github or elsewhere.
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I've got a couple of different projects that I'd like to post up as open source. I've been trying to decide which of the three big open-source project hosting sites makes the most sense, or if I should just host it myself.
Are there any inherent drawbacks or benefits to these three? Is there a "best" place to host a project? Do different sites make more sense for different kinds of projects?
It's really a matter of personal taste. Google Code has a cleaner, simpler interface. Some also like the simplicity of creating projects, the ability to choose between Subversion and Mercurial, and also the Trac-like SCM-integrated wiki-style pages.
The only real criteria other than personal taste are: repository type and licensing. Sourceforge provides Subversion, Mercurial, Bazaar, Git and CVS. Google Code provides Git, Mercurial and Subversion. GitHub and Gitorious provide Git. I've never looked at CodePlex, so I don't know what they offer. Sourceforge hosts projects from a very wide range of open source licenses... it's actually quite daunting choosing a license from their list.
Google Code supports half a dozen licenses: Artistic/GPL, Apache, Eclipse, Gnu GPL, Gnu LGPL, MIT, Mozilla, New BSD. You can see them in the drop down of a new project: http://code.google.com/hosting/createProject
Don't forget github!
Wikipedia might be of help: Comparison of open source software hosting facilities
I think there are two angles to look at this, what development features each site offers, and what audience does each site reach.
From a development perspective, if you are interested in DVCS (Git or Mercurial) then CodePlex, GitHub, or Bitbucket are your best options. Google Code and SourceForge support DVCS as well, but their support for DVCS is not great. If you want Subversion, then Google Code is really the best Subversion host although SourceForge is reasonable, and CodePlex offers support for Subversion clients as well. Other core features (e.g bug tracking, forums/mailing lists, wiki, etc) are offered by all three but have some differences so perhaps more personal preference there.
From a site audience perspective there are big differences between the sites that can be important to your project. For example, if your project runs on Windows or other Microsoft technology, then CodePlex has a much higher concentration of Windows users so you are going to get higher downloads. For similar reasons, if you would like other developers to contribute to your project, CodePlex has a much higher concentration of Microsoft developers so you are more likely to get contributors. If your software runs on Linux then Google Code or SourceForge have a much larger Linux user base so you'd get more downloads/contributors there. If your software runs on Mac, I'm not as sure but I think GitHub might actually have the edge there.
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I currently have a few closed-source applications that I have developed to learn a particular technology or experiment with a programming technique. As a result, I have some software that is useful to others and that I have made freely available, but in closed-source format.
Some of the users of the software have asked if I would be willing to go open-source with the software so they could contribute to it. I'm all for it, but haven't had any previous experience working on open-source projects, much less starting one.
Ideally I'd get my feet wet by contributing to an existing project first, but I don't want quell enthusiasm of these volunteers by delaying too long. So I am going to forge ahead slightly blindly.
What I am looking for is a crash-course in managing an open-source project for someone just starting out on this track.
So let me phrase this as a question:
What advice do you have for someone
starting up their first open-source
project?
I'm also interested in recommendations for books/links that you think would be helpful
You have two important choices to make initially.
Firstly which licence should you use? There are dozens of Open Source licences, but it basically boils down to whether you want copyleft (GPL/AGPL) or non-copyleft (BSD, MIT, Apache) and that depends on your own objectives.
Secondly, you need to choose a version control system and, assuming you won't be hosting it yourself, a provider. This is effectively a choice between Subversion or one of the distributed version control systems (Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, etc.). A DVCS may make it easier for you to manage contributions from other people if you don't want to give them write access to your master repository.
Choice of VCS will influence your choice of host and vice versa as most providers only offer one VCS. A provider that will also host a website and/or wiki for you would be ideal. Most will provide some kind of rudimentary issue tracker and possibly mailing lists. You can also get mailing lists from Librelist.
I would recommend that you take a look at GitHub or Launchpad. I'm not particularly keen on Google Code or Sourceforge. Nothing against Subversion, I just don't like their UIs.
If you want your project to become popular, and that might not be important to you, you'll have to promote it. You can register it with Ohloh and Freshmeat. Writing blog articles about your project and submitting them to sites like Reddit and DZone would increase visibility. Remember also that Jeff is offering free advertising on StackOverflow for Open Source projects.
Anyway, as long as you have a public source repository and a website for people to download the software from, just write code and the rest will follow.
If you're already familiar with VCS (Versioning Control System) you should be fine. I recommend www.github.org to host the repository, and maybe at some point a website to talk about the app. Github is nice because it makes it especially easy for people to contribute code. It's ridiculously simple, although git has a bit of a learning curve.
And then, a way to communicate! A mailing list.. Maybe googlewave.. Maybe a forum.
Don't miss the great e-book from Karl Fogel, Producing Open Source Software available at no cost online.
I don't have any personal advice on hand, but I found the following video very interesting. It's a recollection of the experiences of some Google employees and the lessons they learned whilst managing their open source projects.
How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q52kFL8zVoM
Read this book: Wikinomics
In one of the chapters, for example, the author explains the challenges faced by IBM when they first joined open source projects on Linux.
Some code repository sites do a lot of the management work for you. They provide the licenses, they handle versioning (in some cases) and they obviously handle the repository.
look at these sites:
http://www.codeplex.com/
http://www.codeproject.com/
http://sourceforge.net/
The very minimum that you need to do is post the code as a zip, with a suitable license file. You can do that at Google Code - it's really easy to use. As for which license, start with an unrestrictive one such as MIT (Google Code has all the license texts) - you can always re-license later, provided you haven't accepted any updates.
As for books/links, take a look at Producing Open Source Software - it's not perfect, but I don't know of anything better.
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I'm starting a small open source project, myself being the sole contributor for the time. Still, I think a continuous integration setup would be useful to detect whether I broke the build.
Is there a free, hosted continuous integration server that is suitable for very small projects? Googling turned up CodeBetter, but I'm not sure they'll accept a one-man project that is just starting up.
I prefer TeamCity, but I'm open to suggestions.
Note - a hosted solution is a must for me. I don't want to setup and maintain a continuous integration server, so answers like "TeamCity" or "CruiseControl" are simply irrelevant.
Specific requirements:
I am hosting my project at GitHub, so the continuous integration server needs Git integration
I would like the continuous integration server to run .NET integration (unit) tests
Nice to have - I also need access to a MySQL server (although I could modify the tests to use embedded SQLite, they currently run against an external MySQL server).
AppVeyor is well integrated with Github, free for open-source projects and really easy to set up.
Builds are configured using YAML or UI. Free accounts are limited to one build at a time. Deployment to NuGet is supported, as well as project and account feeds. It is deeply integrated with GitHub, for example allows creating releases. It supports build matrices, AssemblyInfo patching, rolling builds, build prioritization, status badges, build notifications etc.
Travis is well-known CI (and seems to be the most popular hosted CI by far), now it supports building C#, F# and VB projects too. The caveat is that it supports only Linux and Mono and it's in beta ("may be removed or altered at any time").
MyGet is a hosted package server, but now it supports Build Services too (currently preview) and other features. It's free for public feeds (500 MB max) and has slightly better features for approved open-source projects (bigger storage and gallery). Build service is optimized for packages: NuGet feed, MyGet feeds, SymbolSource integration etc.
This is now provided by Microsoft for free for teams of up to 5 people by Team Foundation Server.
It provides:
Source Control: TFS, Git
Agile Planning: Agile, Scrum, CMMI
Continuous Builds
Collaboration
Integration
Test Execution
Deployment
Visual Studio Team Services doesn't require hosting code on it, code can be pulled from GitHub or any Git repository.
If the project is small and doesn't have complex requirements to build, Hosted pool can be used to perform CI builds. There're several limitations: available software, one build at a time, time limit of one hour etc. If it isn't enough, you can add your own build agents by running a script on your machines.
GitHub support isn't full (pull requests aren't built, for example), but most functionality is supported. Shields.io doesn't support VSO yet, but a custom shield is available.
The primary drawback for open-source projects is that build logs, test results and other data won't be public. Only five users can be given access to the project on a free account. There's a suggestion on UserVoice to make public projects possible.
I know the thread is quite old, but for the people still looking for the answer I recommend taking a look at AppHarbor
It is pretty easy to setup integration with Github and Bitbucket, and you have basic db connections for free through "addon" options.
Quite convenient for startups.
Also take a look at CodeHaus:
http://codehaus.org/
They use Atlassian's Bamboo CI software.
No opinion - as I've never used it.
I don't think that you will easily find a real free (by this I mean for any project, any language) hosted CI service because such a service is very CPU, RAM, disk intensive which implies specific rules, hardware, pricing.
For some offers, have a look at Outsourcing Continuous Integration or this question here on SO. I didn't look at all solutions in detail so I don't know if they'll meet your requirements (language, tool and pricing).
Or try to join a forge providing Continuous Integration for open source projects like The Codehaus (EDIT: not an option for .NET projects AFAIK) or CodeBetter. This will certainly require some efforts to get your project accepted (few actually are IMHO) but this might be your best option.
I've just started using OnCheckin:
https://oncheckin.com/
They exclusively provide for .NET projects.
Maybe the right answer is for someone to make a set of EC2 images available for this sort of thing, so users can either use Amazon, or build their own cloud on Eucalyptus inside the firewall if they're paranoid... but in either case, you save the time and cost of building those images.
MikeCI is an affordable hosted CI service, from $10 per month you can have a cloud build set up in minutes. It currently supports Ruby, Maven and Ant. It has a Free 30 day trial so you can try it and see what it's like. I personally think it's great, plus I think they're looking to support .Net and Objective C!
here's their site http://www.mikeci.com
I know this is probably an old thread, but
Here's another option:
Checkout Jenkins.
It does supports Jenkins.NET which I'm using right now.
And here's another SO-RELATED-THREAD: TFS 2008/2010 vs Jenkins for Continuous Integration
There's RunCodeAt, which Pascal's comment pointed me to. It is super easy to integrate with github, which I happen to host my project on. I'll give it a try.
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First of all, I reviewed this question, but I think I need a little more information since I've never worked on an opensource project before.
I'm starting an opensource project, currently hosted on Google code. It is a framework for creating flash games in ActionScript3 (programmer oriented). So far, so good, but I want to start building a community around it. The project is 60% finished from it's first official stable release (I am using Scrum to guide the development process, currently we are 3 people on the development team). By the way, the project has the MIT licence.
Do you have any advice on how to guide the development, any tools that I should look at?
Assembla vs Google code vs Trac vs Pivotal tracker?
What are you experiences on this?
If you're looking to build a community, it's not always about the tools, more about the processes you can use to build a community. There are plenty of people who will use whatever tool you give them or will choose (or refuse) to participate in a project based on the tools, but if the community stinks very few people will hang around.
I'd recommend spending some time thinking about how you're going to embrace a community. Are you ready to take the time to respond to bug reports? How will you handle enhancement requests? Are you willing to let something into the code if several people want it, but you don't? These are all critical issues that in the end will be far more important then Assmebla vs Trac.
You may want to check out Karl Fogel's book Producing Open Source Software or Jono Bacon's The Art of Community for more hints on managing and building a community.
First, big obvious download buttons so that a person can download your project, make it just plain easy. Secondly, forums so that people can give you feedback good and bad about the project.
Good luck on your project!
I would suggest checking out this book: http://producingoss.com/
I believe there is a free online and pdf version.
I have messed around with Trac some and it can certainly get the job done but if you are already doing an agile development process I would check out Pivotal Tracker. I use it on a side project and it's pretty slick, not to mention free to use. Pivotal has all the things you would expect: stories, backlog, velocity calculation, a few charts, etc.
Strive for adoption. The more users you get, the more people will contribute back.
Include lots of code samples on the wiki and let users download a sample application.
Make sure your API is well-documented with ASDoc.
Provide a roadmap to so that potential users can see your direction and intentions.
Be diligent about prioritizing feature requests and bugs. You and your team don't have time to do everything.
Make integration as seamless as possible. Hopefully users will be able to simply download a .swc (Flash library) and link it into their application.
Release early, release often. I hate having to download and use the HEAD revision from a repository because a team has only officially released one version of their project and it's a year old.
To me, guiding the development is more a matter of prioritizing what has to be done so I'm tempted to say: why don't you just use Google Code issue tracker as your project is already hosted there? I think it's offering all you need. Customize it to add a Estimates field if you want (for Scrum) and there you go.
Why do you think you would need something else? You already have a source repository, code reviews facilities, a wiki, mailing lists, an issue tracker, secured access for contributors. You don't need much more for collaborative work. What are you missing? Instant Messaging? Use Skype or Gtalk. IRC? You don't need it for now. No, really, I don't think a tool is gonna solve anything more here (even if you can't draw your burndown chart, not a big deal for a non full time project IMO).
So, because any other tool would be less well integrated with other Google Code services (e.g. I like to link my commits to issues using "Issue #ID" in comments which is automatically linked), I'd stick with what you currently have (maybe just add Gtalk/Skype to ease the communication/collaboration) and I'd start creating issues and prioritizing them. Good prioritization of work is the key to a successful project, there is no silver bullet tool that will do this for you. Then, plan fixed date milestones (releases) and assign most important issues to the upcoming milestone. Close as many issues as you can before the deadline. When the release time has come, release what has been done, postpone non implemented issue to the next milestone and start again.
If you need a software to support your scrum project... agile42 offers free Licenses of Agilo for Scrum Pro for open source projects.
Don't host your code on codeplex. I recently started an open source project as the basis of an article series on DotNetSlackers.com to show people how to build a site like SO. I mistakenly hosted this project on CodePlex. My automated build will periodically send me broken build emails as CodePlex will randomly go down for hours at a time. IT DRIVES ME NUTS!
If you plan to develop code that is free to the world but don't plan on letting anyone and everyone submit code to your project...host your own source control (perforce is free for a couple of users) or use something like google to host your code.
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I'm looking for a free/open source collaborative project manager that can be deployed internally in my workplace that would act similar to Codeplex or Sourceforge. Does anyone know of something like this, and if so do you have experience with it.
Requirements:
Open Source or Free
Locally Deployable
Has the same types of features found in Sourceforge / Codeplex
Issue/Feature Tracking
Community Interaction (ie. Voting, Roles, etc.)
SCM Integration (Optional)
.NET/Windows Friendly (Optional)
Every business ends up having internal utilities, and domain specific apps that developers create to make life easier. Given the input of the internal developer community they have the potential to become much better (can you say GMail...), and I would simply like to foster such an environment internally by providing an easy place for that interaction to take place.
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So I like what I am seeing in both Trac and GForge, but both are heavily geared towards UNIX/Subversion environments. I should have specified this, but we are a MS shop from top to bottom. How practical do you think it is going to be to try and use these in a MS .NET environment? Would that be like trying to shove a square peg through a round hole?
I like redmine for this: http://www.redmine.org. The only thing it's missing from your criteria is voting, but there might even be a plugin for this.
Trac is also popular (http://trac.edgewall.org) but it lacks suport for aggregation of data across projects.
Try GForge, it's a SourceForge fork and has most of its features.
I agree, Trac should work. IMHO setting up Subversion should be relatively easy on Windows too, there are great Windows clients for it (tortoiseSvn), and Trac runs on python, so it will work on Windows too.
Other advantages of Sourceforge Enterprise are these plugins. There are extra plugins for Visual Studio wich can be found here and here.
SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.4 is available for free for up to 15 users. We use it for our development team and another development team where I work.
It's been working great for us. It has subversion and cvs built in (whichever you wish to use). If you plan on accessing it over the internet you might want to enable HTTPS. I had to do a little finagling to get HTTPS to work correctly (finding the right CentOS packages to install). If you wanted to use this solution with HTTPS I wouldn't mind if you sent me a message asking for help.
It comes with a VM for VMWare Player:
http://www.collab.net/downloads/sfee/index4.4.html
Launchpad has support for Code Hosting and version control, Bug tracking, Blueprints, Answers, Polls, Translations, etc.
Launchpad is used by the Ubuntu Project.
A few weeks ago, Launchapad was released as open source.
I was just wondering the same thing, something like Trac but in .NET, after a quick GOOGLE search (I have never tried these tools) I found
sharpforge (This no longer looks free!)
I like how the site .netTiers looks.
They use screwturn wiki.
It is totally free if you fulfill all GPLv2 statements.
Assembla and BeanStalk are nice, both have things like; wiki, discussion, alerts, chat, ticketing, Trac, Git and Subversion
What about Trac? It's pretty simple, but does it's Job for a lot of Open Source projects.
I would concur on the Trac suggestion. I use it both for an open source project and for an internal project. It has decent issue tracking and integration with Subversion which allows links between tickets and subversion checkins. It also has an integrated wiki, which can be of some use for documentation. Although we do not use it for voting / community type features, I know there's a number of addons to it that might serve this purpose.