Challenges in the collaborative development of a complex mathematical software and its ecosystem

Théo Zimmermann (1, 2)

1 PI.R2 - Design, study and implementation of languages for proofs and programs
2 IRIF (UMR_8243) - Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale

This is a contribution to the OpenSym 2018 Doctoral Symposium. This paper describes my PhD objectives. As an insider in the Coq development team, I've worked at making the release process of the Coq proof assistant smoother and more automated, at opening the development to external contributions, and at shaping the ecosystem around Coq. I'm intending to evaluate how well-known software engineering techniques and results about open source software communities apply in the specific case of the proof assistant I'm studying.

Mots clés: Open source software; Coq; Release management; Mathematical software; Proof assistant

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Logiciel mathématique [cs.MS]; Langage de programmation [cs.PL]; Bibliothèque électronique [cs.DL]

Théo Zimmermann. Challenges in the collaborative development of a complex mathematical software and its ecosystem. OpenSym 2018 - 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, Aug 2018, Paris, France. ⟨10.1145/3233391.3233966⟩. ⟨hal-01951322⟩