The home of Alitheia Core

After 1.5 year of development, the SQO-OSS project is happy to release a new version of Alitheia Core, along with a completely redesigned and updated website. For this release, purposely code-named Apheresis, Alitheia Core went on diet and lost almost 30% of its source code base, in an effort to make it more maintainable and extensible.

A more extensive list of changes that went into version 0.95 is the following:

• The build system was rewriten using maven. Building and running Alitheia Core is a matter of executing a single command.
• A new plug-in archetype allows creating a skeleton plug-in with a simple command
• The SVN updater has been re-written and is now capable of processing projects as large as FreeBSD
• A skeleton administration service was added, will be extended to facilitate scripting of large installations.
• Code for the web services and web UI was removed. Will be replaced with a REST based solution that gives full access to the data stored by the core.
• Code for various unfinished plug-ins has been removed
• The web site has been redesigned and lots of new content was added
• The project servers and services have been upgraded

The following features are planned for version 0.96, to be available winter 2010:

• A Git repository importer
• A RESTful service that offers access to the core metadata
• Structural changes to make the core more extensible
• Updater functionality will be moved to plug-ins

The SQO-OSS project is currently working to give users and researchers easy access to the 200 million records stored in our servers. A REST based component has almost been developed, and the project is working to standardize the API. While we are preparing for the final release (due in a couple of weeks), you can have a glimpse on the data that the system stores and processes using the AJAX-based web client, available here.

http://demo.sqo-oss.org/

Please share your thoughts and ideas as comments on this page, or subscribe to the mailing lists to do so. Also, keep in mind that the interface and the API are currently under development, so errors may arise. Finally, not all metrics were run on all projects/resources, but we are working on that!