<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 10, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Fred Moyer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">The ASF has developed a fairly robust structure and set of processes<br>for software development that may be worth examining to see if your<br>organization is facing similar problems.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>At first, I doubted that Apache would have much to offer. I know about Maven and Ivy, but this is a project management tool, not a library dependency thing.</div><div><br></div><div>But then I found this in the ASF site: <a href="http://projects.apache.org/doap.html">http://projects.apache.org/doap.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div>It sounds like DOAP is exactly what my client is doing -- collecting and organizing project metadata.</div><div><br></div><div>And there are even some tools for aggregating and browsing DOAP files: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/simal/">http://code.google.com/p/simal/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the great suggestion. I'll dig deeper and let you know if this pans out.</div><div><br></div><div>-Jeff</div><div><br></div></body></html>