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THE OPEN SOURCING OF EPANET
Citation:
ROSSMAN, L. A. AND J. E. Van Zyl. THE OPEN SOURCING OF EPANET. Presented at Water Distribution system Analysis 2010, WDSA 2010, Tucson, AZ, September 12 - 15, 2010.
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public.
Description:
A proposal was made at the 2009 EWRI Congress in Kansas City, MO to establish an Open Source Project (OSP) for the widely used EPANET pipe network analysis program. This would be an ongoing collaborative effort among a group of geographically dispersed advisors and developers, working on a voluntary basis within an auto-governing organizational structure, which would allow members of the water distribution system modeling community to participate in the program’s development and improvement. After reviewing some key aspects of the OSP development process we discuss what issues these present to establishing an open source project for EPANET. These include justifying the need and benefit of such a project, establishing its membership and organizational structure, identifying the scope of development the project should pursue, and maintaining high quality control standards. Suggestions are made on what options are available to address each of these issues.
