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[Harmless-general] FASD project: Online survey launched

[<ben...@id...>]

Dear Open Source developer

I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate.
You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it.

With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development.


With many thanks for your participation,
Benno Luthiger


PS:
The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/.
We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list.

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Benno Luthiger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zurich

Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch
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[Harmless-general] [Fwd: Re: Remoting.Corba - IIOP Support for .NET]

[Sergio P. <se...@be...>]

Hi Clebert,

I received your first mail after I had that discussion with Kristopher 
(forwarded in the mail), so I supposed you know about Harmless from one 
of his post.
It is very important to be in touch with him. I will send a mail right 
now to inform of our mailing list.

Sergio

[Harmless-general] Re: Harmless Project

[Sergio P. <se...@be...>]

Hi Clebert,

I start to post messages in  harmless general, if the quantity of 
messages will be too high  we will
create a new development list.

Clebert Suconic wrote:

>Oi Sergio...   ( :-)  )
>
>I read the roadmap... I think that is a good idea in have an (well... I
>don't know the name.. .cronograma... timesheet...) like that for builds..
>  
>
I do not undestand what exactly you want to say... we  could use task 
manager of sourceforge,
but I  never used them so I cannot tell.

>
>But I have some ideas about what to implement before go to next release...
>
>
>- I think we should think in performance since now. For example, wbStream
>and rbStream always use memoryData (MemoryStream) or byteArray. What you
>think about in use an pureStream mechanism without regard to Memory, disk or
>IP (well... IP is another case, maybe produce an IIOPStreamWriter and
>IIOPStreamReader)?
>
Ok, I think it should be necessary.
I started doing the simplest implementation, so it is not well designed.


>- What you think about rename (refactoring) wbStrem to GIOPStreamReader and
>rbStream to GIOPStreamWriter? Having Stream (maybe another class) as
>parameter for the respectively constructors (resolving memoryBuffers).
>
Rename that classes  is a must.

>- I found some botlenecks for performance, like create new Objects instead
>use then as agregated inside some methods (at least, I believe that they are
>some bottlenecks)
>
I should have look at the code. If it is  in POA code, that  code is too 
simplicistic now at the  moment  to think to  optimize.

>- We should also document the code!
>

>And... Urgenlty.... We need ANT ASAP! :-) That can be my first help into
>Harmless, as there is .NET taskdefs into ant! ;-)
>  
>
I do not choose ant at  the beginning because ANT is java related so I 
was unsure and  I preferred to wait
for something .net related.
But actual build process it is too poor and we need to change, so  ANT 
will be ok for me.
I remenber to have seen an ant translation in C#  on sourceforge site, 
but I do  not know the progress or  objectives.

The only thing that should  remain is the indipendence from MS Visual 
Studio. I am not using now, and
I want to start. To write  code I  use SharpDevelop. (I  have  MS Visual 
Studio  .net  installed).

>
>Let me know what you think about my ideas....
>
>
>  
>
Well, here I would like to complete the wstring support and any type 
(version 0.0.5).
In the meantime you can do the modification that you described in this 
mail (GIOPStream over stream, ?bstream renaming, ant build scripts), if 
you agree.
Antonio will upgrade the IDL grammar from 2.0 to 2.4.2 or 2.6.

Then we can start the work of 0.1.0.

I started to write documentation in harmless.xml in docbook; what I see 
more  important at the moment if the chapter 4, that should describe our 
 interpretation of the specifications.
Besides, I would describe all the interfaces contained in the CORBA 
specifications  (i.e. ORB,  POA, POAManager, constants) into the file 
idl/harmless.idl.

Sergio

>
>
>Clebert
>
>
>PS: You can redirect this e-mail to anyone, including our public list!
>Should I use our forum for this kind of messages?
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sergio Perani" <se...@be...>
>To: "Clebert Suconic" <cl...@su...>
>Cc: "Dr Antonio Montano" <ant...@be...>; "Daniele Bufarini"
><dan...@be...>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:22 PM
>Subject: Re: Harmless Project
>
>
>  
>
>>Do not worry, we will use always english language. I think we should use
>>the mailing list in harmless-general for the moment. I  will register
>>you now. Just yestarday I discovered other two silent guy in mailing
>>list, but I do not what they are doing there.
>>
>>I never used messaging software, but it could be an option.
>>
>>If you have time, you could also look at our project
>>http://www.opheliadev.org ; also feature a CORBA code generation module
>>(http://www.opheliadev.org).
>>
>>About next  step: First, You could send you impression on the roadmap,
>>which is more or less a planning. Then I will some some time this
>>weekend to close a 0.0.4 version, and make some cleanup.
>>
>>Sergio
>>
>>Clebert Suconic wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Great...
>>>
>>>
>>>I saw that you included me. Now the project increased! That's so
>>>great! ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>What is next steps now? Do you have some ideas?
>>>
>>>Well... If you like the idea, we could have a meeting by internet,
>>>using AIM, ICQ or MSN! Or exchange e-mails using sourceforge!
>>>
>>>
>>>A doubt...
>>>
>>>I'm seing that every body speaks Italian, isn't?
>>>
>>>Well... I can understand something, as Portuguese are based on Latin,
>>>but is hard to understand Italian! We will have to keep our
>>>conversations in English! ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>Regards...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Clebert
>>>      
>>>
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[Harmless-general] Harmless ORB 0.0.4

[Sergio P. <se...@be...>]

Hi,

A new version of harmless is available.
Main changes are:

- partial support for constant in IDL
- namespaces
- user exception
- COS NameService stubs are now included

Sergio