Hi folks: I've been kind of quiet on the line for a good long time, but had the opportunity to do some work back in 2011-12 on a custom Allura, which has now been released, along with a raft of other interesting things: http://cps-vo.org/group/avm
Here are the files themselves most related to Allura (under "Georgia Tech" and "Vanderbilt University"): http://cps-vo.org/node/5837/browser Between the both of these, there is some interesting stuff: - 3D CAD viewer... the multiuser part has a non-free dependency - twitter-like thing - VCS hooks (two different implementations!) - theming stuff (some of which was already extracted out and is in Apache Allura) - project metadata search - various model integrations One of the suites received funding beyond the date of what is posted there, so there may be updates to come. The license situation is tricky, as nominally everything is MITish, but I doubt/know the code is well audited, but I happen to know some of authors, and I am sure we can figure something out :) I would love to see as much as is relevant make it back into the upstream. According to the timestamps, this happened a while back, but I've been off doing other things, and it was only recently brought to my attention... basically I was a bit gunshy of just pushing my code out until the sponsor distributed it... government contracting around free software is funny. Additionally, there is a current effort to transition these technologies into "commercial tools," which does not preclude open source projects under any definition I've ever heard, as long as somebody is getting paid: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=09ca3c2daa2d854bbb6de7171cdc7f2e&tab=core&_cview=1 I would be interested in whether the community (either as we are, or as a more formal partnership between companies and individuals that contribute) would be interested in putting together a proposal (9-14pg, deadline: 4pm Thursday, 31 Oct) to transition any of the technology created by these previous efforts into Apache Allura proper. I hope something of interest can come of this! Cheers, Nick
