Project-Builder.org aka pb helps building continuously multiple OS packages from sources.
With the increasing role of FLOSS in enterprise, some development techniques linked to it also know a momentum. Continuous integration (shared sources repository, automatic build, automatic test) is such an example. The new process called continuous packaging should still be promoted and developed as best practice for industry.
Project-Builder.org is a new GPL v2 tool designed to help projects developers producing easily packages for multiple OS and architectures, on a regular basis, from a single source repository. 90% of users and admins prefer to install packages rather than tar files or content from a [D]VCS. But packages don't necessarily follow the development stream of projects, to package alpha, beta. Giving the possibility for projects to distribute seamlessly packages for whatever step of their development is clearly a gain for the whole community.
The various aspects covered by the tool are:
These features help reducing the development cost by providing a process, method and tools to realize continuous packaging during the whole project life cycle. Today the tool supports:
It aims at becoming a tools for the vcs-pkg.org initiative. It's today used for projects as diverse as FOSSology, MondoRescue, LinuxCOE, GOsa², itself, ...
TBD
We also have freshmeat, entries.
Who is in the Project-Builder.org?
Bruno Cornec
lead development, maintenance, documentation, web site, rpm packaging, Mandriva packaging
Bryan Gartner
Ideas contributor, bug reporter
Who has been in the Project-Builder.org?
Nobody ahas the project is too young for that ;-)
"I think I've already seen your look and feel somewhere"
These 2 incredible guys have accepted to let us reuse the design they made for the not less incredible game Frozen Bubble. Many thanks guys ! Just hope Mondo Rescue will help you some days as much as I played to frozen bubble myself :-)
Don't miss Ayo's site at 73lab.com as it provides all his artworks, some of them reusable.
There are too few people involved at the moment. But that shouldn't refrain you from participating !
These people/entities helped financially the development of Project-Builder.org:
HP, Intel
These people helped technically the development of Project-Builder.org:
Project-Builder.org was first created because there was nothing like it available at that time under a free license. Under the vcs-pkg.org initiative, you may find other projects whose goals are aligned with those of Project-Builder.org. Especially you should look at the OpenSUSE Build Service.
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