Workshop 5 (W5)
10th
International Software Product Line Conference
(SPLC 2006)
21-24 August
2006
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
OSSPL - First International Workshop on Open Source Software
and Product Lines
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/osspl06/
22
August 2006
Organizers:
Frank van der Linden,
Philips Medical Systems, The Netherlands
Piergiorgio Di Giacomo, University of
Florence, Firenze, Italy
Contact: osspl06@dsi.unifi.it
Description
Open source software
is getting much attention lately. Using open source software appears to be a
profitable way to obtain good software. This is also applicable for
organizations doing product line engineering. On the other hand, because of the
diverse use of open source software, product line development is an attractive
way of working in open source communities. However, at present open source and
product line development are not related. This workshop aims to get a better
understanding between the two communities to get an insight how they can profit
from each other.
The workshop deals with the following issues:
- Ownership, control and management of product line assets in an open source community
- Visibility of the code: when it is valuable to share proprietary code and how to take the right decision.
- Creation of different levels of architecture visibility: proprietary, among closed consortium, public. Is this possible?
- Product line requirements, roadmaps and planning in open source development
- Using the open source community to evolve components and being explicit about variability
- Variability representation and management in an open source community
- Open source for the platform and in applications
- Cohabitation of product line management and agile processes
- Open source asset management tools in product line development
- The meaning of domain and application engineering in an open source context
- Recognition and recovery of a product line in an open source asset base
- Aspects dealing with evolutionary, variability or distribution of development relating to legal risks involving: liability, warranties, patent infringements etc.
Submission (extended!): The extended deadline for submissions is June 15, 2006. For more information please visit the workshop homepage at http://www.dsi.unifi.it/osspl06/.
