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Brazilian Public Software Portal: an integrated platform for collaborative development

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Paulo Meirelles,

Antonio Terceiro,

Rodrigo Siqueira,

Lucas Kanashiro,

Hilmer NeriAuthors Info & Claims

OpenSym '17: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Open Collaboration

Article No.: 16, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/3125433.3125471

Published: 23 August 2017 Publication History

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The Brazilian Public Software (SPB) is a program promoted by the Brazilian Federal Government to foster sharing and collaboration on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) solutions for the public administration. In this context, a public software is considered a public good and the Federal Government assumes some responsibilities related to its use. Once its devolpment principles is the same of the FLOSS projects, we have designed the SPB Portal, a platform based on the integration and evolution of existing FLOSS tools. It provides several modern features for software collaborative development, helping the Brazilian public administration in sharing its solutions. In this paper, we present this integrated software development platform that was developed for the SPB program by a heterogeneous team composed by professors, master students and undergraduate students, as well as by professionals from FLOSS communities. The development of this platform used several FLOSS projects, providing a non-trivial integration among them. This effort has also produced several new features that were contributed back to these projects. Alongside the architectural challenges, we also discuss in this paper our work process, based on agile and free software development practices, and the lessons learned during 30 months of work on the SPB project.

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Brazilian Public Software Portal: an integrated platform for collaborative development
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management

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