AgiliaDotOrg

See http://www.agilia.org

Metaphor :

Like Apache, but emphasising TDD and importance of Agile ideals.

Detail :

Laura Waite (TW) and I have been thinking about a place for OSS development that leans on much of the Agile ideals. Hopefully it is a friendly place where rounded people (like those that attend XtC) can do open source. It maye be that some people only want a brand for OSS for their project and are happy at SourceForge. It may be that others will push projects there in their entirety. Both are fine. In fact there are a number of aspects to Agilia that differentiate it from other OSS portals.

Part of the reason for thinking of this is Joe's QDox. It is finished (bugger all current development) and was largely done single-handedly (well I broke the build a couple of times). For these reasons it is ineligible for hosting or arrival at Apache (project must have 3+ very active committers at all times). QDox is perfect example of TDD. There needs to a be a home for this type of thing that can give a brand of sorts.

Another example is Andy Pol's new (and tiny) version of a Sitemesh inspired HTML book-binding thing. He's likely to finish it soon, and want it out there somewhere...

Anyway all for discussion tonight. I hope this goes well - it is often the case that people have a natural resitance to 'new ideas' (the world is so full of them). I hope people can warm to this before it gets discussed tonight.

Questions

- Should we embrace a multi-license situation or evolve a 'Agilia Liciense' ? - Should we scope cap to refactoring capable languages (i.e. no COBOL ?)

- Paul

But what do you mean by "100% unit and functional test coverage"? The JesTer says that you can have tests that give "100% coverage" without actually testing anything, depending on your measure of coverage (I'm not suggesting that imposing a required JesTer measure would be a GoodThing, BTW, just that any such measure would be a BadThing? IMO). -- IvanM