To your question about Forge.mil being able to handle quick projects – absolutely. In fact, the kind of work that SFC Stadtler is doing is exactly the kind of thing I’d like to see us do more of on Software.Forge.mil. We already have a ‘Utility Library’ project to collect smaller utility type efforts, but even some of the comms stuff that SFC Stadtler did could be hosted on Forge.mil.

Let’s catch up at MIL-OSS in a couple of weeks, or barring that, the Red Hat Summit in September. Is SFC Stadtler going to speak at either conference?

-Guy Martin

http://nebula.nasa.gov/services

Now, imagine if troops had access to something like NEBULA, a version on both SIPR and NIPR. One of the fundamental issues we need to battle is the “long-term” maintenance of a “battlefield” developed application – so it has life after the problem solver moves on, which includes runtime management. I like the way NASA has put together their package. Though I’m not a fan of Trac(Subversion), I can see why they’ve made the decision to go in that direction. Still, as Gunnar pointed out in his comment, there’s a need to accommodate a quick-hit, individual-centric project – which is provided by a platform like Github.com.

The Army is very interested in composability, and the “home” you mentioned is in a stage of deep thought. I’m currently trying to build out a prototype – and am I’m sure we’ll discuss further at http://mil-oss.org in the near future. ;)