Codendi 4.0 now in free downlaod : Xerox decides to open the source code of Codendi to answer the growing requests from universities, associations and companies. The new features : continuous integration, dashboards, etc Explanations of Nicolas Guérin (NG),Technical Manager of Codendi

1. 2nd quarter 09 page 1
SPECIAL NEWSLETTER
Codendi 4.0
The new version of Codedi is released
and available for free download !
TO BE READ IN THIS NEWSLETTER
Codendi 4.0 in free download -page 1
The new features- page 2
Explanations of Nicolas Guérin (NG), Technical Manager of Codendi
CODENDI 4.0 website www.codendi.org, including the Codendi Pro Services,
plugins, which is not always the case in guarantee of professional support
IN FREE DOWNLOAD other solutions available on the web. and functionnal development
The downloadable version is the Labs In the market of development
The French COCLICO project
Edition, the Pro Edition is exclusively collaborative tools, Codendi positions
(convergence of the free community for
reserved for our customers. itself as an alternative between free
opened collaborative infrastructures) to
which Xerox participates with Codendi With this opening, Codendi clearly tools available on the web and solely
in partnership with Bull, Orange Labs, establishes itself in the market of open- animated by a community, and the
Thales, and Inria, plans to make the source solutions, a few months after closed proprietary tools. The Codendi
project results available on the web. Xerox won the Lutèce d’Or 2008 award offer combines the assets of both
Xerox decided not to wait for the project as the “Best open-source project carried markets: implementing an open-source
to end and opens the source code of out by a large company”. solution with all the benefits it implies,
Codendi to answer the growing requests together with the guaranty of a
from universities, associations and Labs Edition for experiencing, professional support and a functional
companies. Xerox assigned this task Pro Edition for working development of the tool.
to Code-Opus, an open source services
company which thus becomes the first The Pro et Labs versions propose similar Let’s meet on the Codendi Blog
official reseller of Codendi accredited features. As its name suggests, the Labs
The next step is to get the community
by Xerox. Code-Opus is in charge of Edition includes laboratory features that
involved and give it the means to express
animating the community, increasing are currently under development and
itself. That is the aim of the Codendi blog
customer portfolio and managing that have not been validated or tested
where users can meet and comment on
customer relations ; Xerox continues enough to be included into the Pro
the proposed articles
to be in charge of the support and Edition version. The Pro Edition version,
functional development available with the Codendi Pro Services
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2. NewsLetter Codendi Newsletter
2nd quarter 09 page 2
THE NEW FEATURES As well as information about continuous Moreover, we developed an automatic
integration, the new project dashboard system for crossed references. Now,
also enables to follow other indicators: when you make a reference from an
statistics linked to source code manager, item A towards an item B, the “crossed”
Nicolas Guérin (NG) document content, project classification reference from the item B towards the
Technical Manager of but also other external information : RSS item A is automatically extracted. This
Codendi
feeds, Twitter feeds, etc. avoids to forget some references and to
save time, especially since this works with
Dashboards are entirely customizable and all the Codendi tools.
each project manager can chose its own
Q : What’s new in Codendi 4.0 ? page setup and information to display. Finally, we extend the permission system
NG : For this new version, we developed Dashboards can be customized with on the tracker. Up to now, you could put
new plugins and improved some existing many widgets provided with Codendi 4.0 permissions for each tracker or for each
tools from the version 3.6 released in June as well as their web2.0 layout: columns, field of the tracker. With Codendi 4.0,
2008. We focused on 6 main points: lines, can be displayed like you want. In you can also manage permissions for a
the same way, you can create your own specific artifact.
First, we created an interface with the personal dashboard.
Hudson continuous integration tool.
Codendi enables now real-time visibility Q : How have
and control of your projects thanks to been chosen
project dashboards integrated into the improvements or
platform. Several indicators linked to new features of the
continuous integration are proposed: version 4.0 ?
build status, project stability, test results,
direct access to all the information of NG : We always
Hudson within Codendi, etc. use customers’
f e e d b a c k ,
You can manage several Hudson jobs their requests,
within a Codendi project, but also trigger suggestions
a project build in Hudson after source or issues they
code modification. Hudson integration submitted us. We
Example of customized personal dashboard
within the Codendi dashboard provides propose them some
a quick overview of the project status to solutions, they choose some of them and
engineers as well as managers. As regards collaboration, we get on the then we develop.
work we began in the version 3.6 with the
instant messaging. Now, you can interact Q : When is the version 4.2 due?
with your teammates on Jabber with
NG : The next version of Codendi is
your web browser. Additionally, Codendi
planned for the end of 2009.
now stores the chat logs in its database,
so that you can access them later.
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We also worked on a less visible aspect
of Codendi, named the « backend »
that is to say the interactions between
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files, etc. From now, all system aspects Discover
are managed as events which are
immediately implemented in Codendi.
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Example of indicators linked to continuous integration
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immediately: web pages, Subversion,
access permissions... Before, you had
and the new features
By making continuous integration
implementation easier, Codendi answers to wait for a while before these system
a growing need from software teams, in tasks are executed. Thus, the Codendi Date : 25th June 09
particular those who implement agile administration part is simplified. Hour : 5.00 PM to 6 .00 PM ( GMT+1)
methodologies like SCRUM.
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