Re: [gentoo-soc] Welcome GSoC Students!

[Alec Warner]

grr, sent as wrong sender again...

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan
>  <nirbheek.chauhan@×××××.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Anant Narayanan <anant@g.o> wrote:
>  >  [snip an awesome project]
>  >
>  >
>  >  >  Automate it All
>  >  >         by Nirbheek Chauhan
>  >
>  >  It's "Automate it All"! =P
>  >  The quotes are important. =)
>  >
>  >  [snip other awesome projects]
>  >
>  >  [snip some great advice]
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  >         - Blogs: A lot of developers use blogs to communicate with the
>  >  > community at large. We recommend you read posts on Planet Gentoo
>  >  > (http://planet.gentoo.org/) and add the feed to your reader. We also highly
>  >  > recommend that you get a blog for yourself (if you already don't have one),
>  >  > and use it to write anything relevant to your project under a category such
>  >  > as 'soc08' or 'gentoo'. We will be aggregating your blogs on our Planet for
>  >  > the entire Gentoo community to read.
>  >
>  >  Besides planet gentoo, there's also http://planet-soc.com -- the
>  >  official GSoC planet :)
>
>  I encourage you to sign up for both.  You can contant
>  planet@g.o for us and I'm sure planet-soc has some signup
>  somewhere (the le' awesome webchick is running it).
>
>
>  >
>  >
>  >  >
>  >  >  Code Management
>  >  >         - Gentoo uses a mix of CVS, SVN and Git internally. We recommend you
>  >  > use an external code hosting service to help manage your code. Some of the
>  >  > popular ones are: http://code.google.com/hosting/(SVN),
>  >  > http://sourceforge.net/ (CVS/SVN) and http://repo.or.cz/ (Git).
>  >
>  >  Using external code hosting services makes keeping track of all the
>  >  Gentoo projects painful at the very least. Some people will use
>  >  code.google, others sf, launchpad, etc etc and one has to run around
>  >  between all these websites to access the projects.
>
>  Painful at the very least eh?  I disagree ;)
>
>  I expect students to use whatever hosting service they choose provided
>  it is up enough (ie hosting it on your workstation at home is probably
>  not good enough).
>
>  I expect students to post a URL to their code somewhere so people can
>  find it easily (maybe we can update the soc webpage...).
>
>  You may want to visit the 'official' unofficial soc wiki as well:
>
>  13:54 <@antarus|work> !wiki
>  13:54 <+socinfo> "wiki" is located at http://socwiki.natulte.net/ . For
>                  accepted SoC students only, see the student list for access
>                  information!
>
>
>  >
>  >  So to make things easier for the students, mentors, and those who are
>  >  interested in the code, Redmine has been setup at
>  >  http://soc.gentooexperimental.org/ (hosting courtesy bonsakitten) for
>  >  Gentoo SoC project management.
>  >
>  >  Redmine was chosen over Trac for the following reasons:
>  >
>  >  1. Hosting multiple projects is trivial with Redmine compared to Trac
>  >  2. Redmine is *simple*.
>  >  3. Redmine doesn't provide inbuilt source code management, and instead
>  >  can "watch" any repository you want. This makes managing projects
>  >  which already have an exisiting repostory (such as portage for the
>  >  revdep-rebuild project) very easily
>  >  4. Redmine provides a wiki, a forum, a bug tracker, release cycle,
>  >  calendar for planning, fancy charts for stats, and will provide a
>  >  mailing list in a future release.
>  >
>  >  Redmine can manage bzr, svn, cvs, git, darcs, and mercurial repositories
>  >
>  >  bzr, svn, and git repository management will be provided on the same
>  >  server for projects that need it.
>  >
>
>  Thanks go to Patrick and Co. for getting this set up.  I want to
>  stress again that while it is utterly awesome that it is offered, you
>  don't have to use it.
>
>
>  >
>  >  >  One of the
>  >  > explicit aims of the Community Bonding period is to get you upto speed with
>  >  > the version control system you will be working with. Please contact your
>  >  > mentor for help *before* signing up with a particular service. In some
>  >  > cases, you may be expected to work on an existing repository - again -
>  >  > contact your mentor for specifics.
>  >
>  >  [snip more great advice]
>  >
>  >
>  >  >
>  >  >         Alec Warner: antarus@g.o
>  >  >         Grant Goodyear: g2boojum@g.o
>  >  >         Joshua Jackson: tsunam@g.o
>  >
>  >  What do the powers that be have to say about soc.ge.o? Can we have it
>  >  as the official project management place for Gentoo SoC projects? :-)
>
>  I don't think an 'official' place is necessary but feel free to try to
>  convince me otherwise.
>
>  -Alec
>
>
>
>  >
>  >  If so, Anant might want to add this to the GSoC section in this month's GMN ;-)
>  >
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  ~Nirbheek Chauhan
>  >  --
>  >
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