QSOS templates

From QSOS wiki

A QSOS template is a set of tree-organized criteria that can be used to evaluate (fill-in the criteria) an open source software.

In order to reuse subsets of criteria, we introduced the concept of includes in QSOS templates. Here is a brief explanation of what it is...

First, the file extentions:

• .qtpl: a QSOS template (not directly usable to make an evaluation)
• .qin: a QSOS include (referenced in QSOS templates)
• .qsos: a QSOS evaluation (including blank evaluations)

For instance if you look at the wiki.qtpl template there is 7 includes, like this one:

<include section="UI"/>

This is a reference to the UI.qin include file, which contains:

<section name="UI" title="User interface">
  <element name="i18nUI" title="internationalisation support">
    <desc>Is the whole user interface internationalizable ? Is Unicode Supported ? Are Right-to-Left languages supported (as for Hebrew and Arabic) ?</desc>
    <desc0>The feature doesn't exist</desc0>
    <desc1>Limited support</desc1>
    <desc2>fully supported</desc2>
    <comment/>
    <score/>
  </element>
  <element name="skinableUI" title="skin-ability">
    <desc>
      Does the UI have a complete skin system ?
      (a User/UserGroup customizable interface for instance)    
    </desc>
    <desc0>The feature doesn't exist</desc0>
    <desc1>Limited support</desc1>
    <desc2>fully supported</desc2>
    <comment/>
    <score/>
  </element>
</section>

The .qtpl file contains the <header> tag and eventually other <section> and <element> tags not factorized in .qin files.

As said before a .qtpl file can not be used directly to evaluate: a blank .qsos containing all the criteria (and no includes) file must be generated first.

To do so a Perl script is provided in the CVS: createemptysheet

createemptysheet --include=/includepath --qtpl qsos-template.qtpl

Or you can send your .qtpl file to the mailing list and somebody will generate the .qsos file for you :)