TiddlyGuv: Open Source Governance System

Michael Mahemoff,Osmosoft

OSMOSOFT

“The open source innovation arm of BT”

A BT acquisition

Promoting open source, agile development, and web standards

OSOT:OPEN SOURCE OPERATIONS TEAM

• Promote

• Champion

• Support

• Govern

BT’S LANDSCAPE

Thousands of projects

• Internal

• Partners

• Global Services

• Open Source

• No open source

• Uses open source

• Modifies open source

• Releases/generates open source

TIDDLYGUV

“TiddlyGuv” : a code name!

Tiddly- :the technology stack

-Guv:governance

TiddlyGuv:Non-Functional Requirements

Browser-based

-> Standards-compliant

An open-source product

Flexible

-> Plugin mechanism

RESTful data access

Notifications and Subscriptions

-> Atom/RSS, Email

Potential for content sharing

TiddlyGuv:Functional Requirements

Community Wiki

Drafting vs Publishing

Official policy vs General discussion

Tracking major software licenses

Tracking components

Tracking projects

Product Catalogue(hypothetical)

PostgreSQL Rails

BSD MIT

Sproutcore

Prod

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Com

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Lice

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Product

License

Component

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Flagging vulnerabilities

Flexible rules-based vulnerabilities model

e.g. News feed – All products where a component is GPL’d, but not released

Workflow support

Cuttlefish

DEMO - TiddlyGuv

• Community Wiki

• Licenses

• RESTful exposure (txt/html)

DEMO – TeamTasks Adaptation(Transition tool)

• Spreadsheet migration

• Wiki

• Licenses portal

• Projects portal

TECHNOLOGIES

Client: TiddlyWiki

Single-Page Application (SPA)

Runs off file:// URI

“Tiddlers”: Microcontent

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• Title• Text• Data

… in TiddlyGuv:

Tiddler for each license

Tiddler for each license section, pointing back to license

Tiddler for each wiki entry

etc. ….

TiddlyWeb: Server-side persistence

RESTful

Exposes tiddlers, in “bags”

/bags/licenses/tiddlers/mit.html

/bags/policy/tiddlers/mit-policy.html

/bags/comments/tiddlers/comment5.html

Each bag has an access policy

e.g. licenses – ALL can edit

Content Negotiation

/bags/licenses/tiddlers/mit.html

/bags/licenses/tiddlers/mit.txt

/bags/licenses.rss

Browser-Side Plugins

Shadow Tiddlers

Server-Side Plugins(e.g. LDAP)

Customisation by end-users

Customisation by organisations

Feedback welcome