Commit bf6daeace92158a0ff60156018fe8608bf640c0f

Authored by Paulo Meireles
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[ieeeSW] Completing the Introduction

ieeeSW/releaseEng3/IEEE_ThemeIssue_ReleaseEng_CD.md
... ... @@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ developing similar software projects were all reduced. The society gained a
26 26 transparent and collaborative mechanism, since anyone can check the government
27 27 expenses on software and contribute to project communities. To achieve these
28 28 goals, rather than writing everything from scratch, we decided to integrate
29   -several free software tools such as Gitlab (www.gitlab.com), Mailman
30   -(www.gnu.org/software/mailman), Noosfero (www.noosfero.org), and Colab
31   -(www.github.com/colab).
  29 +several free software tools such as Noosfero (www.noosfero.org), Gitlab
  30 +(www.gitlab.com), Mailman (www.gnu.org/software/mailman), Mezuro
  31 +(www.mezuro.org), and Colab (www.github.com/colab).
32 32  
33 33 The project started in a presidential election year and everyone involved was
34 34 under pressure to show results. Even with the re-election of the Brazilian
... ... @@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ To achieve the SPB project goals, we had to overcome strong political bias tied
45 45 with complicated technical issues and relatively low budget. Because the
46 46 project is open to the public, the government representatives saw the platform
47 47 as a marketing opportunity and sometimes ignored technical advice in favor of
48   -political decisions. Furthermore, integrating a number of distinct systems to
  48 +political decisions. Furthermore, integrating a number of distinct systems
  49 +(such as social and collaboration network, Git repository manager, mailing
  50 +list, source code metric evaluation, and a systems integration platform) to
49 51 work seamlessly was not an easy job. We had to learn how each system worked and
50 52 to come up with ideas of how to integrate them as fast as possible, with a team
51 53 of mostly inexperienced developers.
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