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Major European research institutions and Open Source software companies have announced the launch of EDOS, a project that deals with complexity management in the field of Open Source software.

EDOS participants will collaborate in developing theoretical and technical solutions for managing large-scale, modular software projects. EDOS will receive 2.2 million Euros in European Union funding, for a total budget of 3.4 million Euros.

Modern software projects have grown to unforeseen levels of complexity. For example, most recent Linux operating systems comprise thousands of individual packages. Putting such a system together is a difficult task for any large, modular software project. For Open Source software, with its traditionally short release cycles, this process must be repeated constantly.

Consortium members are specifically concerned with the problem of complexity in Open Source projects. As the amount of Open Source software grows, so does the size of the complexity issue. But solutions can be found.

Today, software building and testing processes are only partly automated, leaving much room for improvement in productivity and quality testing.

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