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Great new features in Saros

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:09:53 +0000

Another release of Saros was made last Friday (version 11.7.1). We’re pretty pleased with the new features, added as a direct result of user feedback and requests. The first is a partial sharing feature. When sharing a project, you now have the option to choose a subset of files instead of the sending the whole […]

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Update: Saros’s Eclipse update site now working again

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:36:24 +0000

Good news around the ongoing SourceForge attack: SourceForge have resumed access to their web-hosting and shell features, which means that Saros users can once again access our update site and upgrade to the latest version.

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Saros Paints a Pretty Picture

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:22:06 +0000

Version 11.1.28 of Saros introduces a major new feature that has been bubbling away deep in the Saros development labs for a while now: the distributed whiteboard. Fresh out of the prototype stage, the whiteboard is a fully-functioning addition to the Saros feature set. However much it works, we feel it is still largely demonstrative […]

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Saros Looks the Bee's Knees!

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:45:37 +0000

In the latest release of Saros, the distributed editing plug-in for Eclipse, we introduce a number of features that improve usability. The first thing you might notice when you power up the new version of Saros is the ability to store and manage multiple XMPP accounts. This feature makes it much more manageable if you […]

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An Open Source Eco-System?

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:48:17 +0000

To summarise the prior writings from my doctoral thesis: I’ve shown how there are both notable differences and similarities between certain measures of FLOSS repositories (such as number of contributors attracted, rate of contributions, complexity control work, etc.) The pattern of similarities and differences that emerged clearly differentiated one group (containing Debian, GNOME, and KDE) […]

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New Saros release: 10.7.30

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:37:35 +0000

A new release of Saros has been released today. A lot of new stuff is packed into this one. Firstly, Saros is now version control system (VCS) aware. You now have the choice of sharing a project by sending SVN repository information to your peers, so that they can interact directly with the repository. More […]

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SourceForge Gives Me a Morality Poser

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:21:25 +0000

As an administrator on a SourceForge-based project, I was recently sent this email by SourceForge (SF): SourceForge has project settings to help you comply with regulations governing distribution of software to persons from certain countries (aka Export Controls). We’ve had some recent questions about these settings, so have sent out this note to all administrators […]

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The Catalyst Effect in FLOSS Repositories

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:56:07 +0000

In the course of my PhD studies, I proposed that when a project makes a transition from one repository to another, you could expect to see significant changes to a project’s evolutionary characteristics. Indeed, I covered this in earlier posts, discussing the transition from SourceForge to Debian. Here, we saw that the number of developers […]

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