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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Anant Narayanan <anant@g.o> wrote: |
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> Automate it All |
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> by Nirbheek Chauhan |
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It's "Automate it All"! =P |
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The quotes are important. =) |
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[snip other awesome projects] |
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[snip some great advice] |
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> - Blogs: A lot of developers use blogs to communicate with the |
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> community at large. We recommend you read posts on Planet Gentoo |
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> (http://planet.gentoo.org/) and add the feed to your reader. We also highly |
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> recommend that you get a blog for yourself (if you already don't have one), |
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> and use it to write anything relevant to your project under a category such |
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> as 'soc08' or 'gentoo'. We will be aggregating your blogs on our Planet for |
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> the entire Gentoo community to read. |
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Besides planet gentoo, there's also http://planet-soc.com -- the |
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official GSoC planet :) |
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> Code Management |
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> - Gentoo uses a mix of CVS, SVN and Git internally. We recommend you |
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> use an external code hosting service to help manage your code. Some of the |
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> popular ones are: http://code.google.com/hosting/(SVN), |
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> http://sourceforge.net/ (CVS/SVN) and http://repo.or.cz/ (Git). |
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Using external code hosting services makes keeping track of all the |
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Gentoo projects painful at the very least. Some people will use |
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code.google, others sf, launchpad, etc etc and one has to run around |
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between all these websites to access the projects. |
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So to make things easier for the students, mentors, and those who are |
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interested in the code, Redmine has been setup at |
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http://soc.gentooexperimental.org/ (hosting courtesy bonsakitten) for |
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Gentoo SoC project management. |
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Redmine was chosen over Trac for the following reasons: |
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1. Hosting multiple projects is trivial with Redmine compared to Trac |
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2. Redmine is *simple*. |
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3. Redmine doesn't provide inbuilt source code management, and instead |
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can "watch" any repository you want. This makes managing projects |
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which already have an exisiting repostory (such as portage for the |
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revdep-rebuild project) very easily |
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4. Redmine provides a wiki, a forum, a bug tracker, release cycle, |
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calendar for planning, fancy charts for stats, and will provide a |
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mailing list in a future release. |
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Redmine can manage bzr, svn, cvs, git, darcs, and mercurial repositories |
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bzr, svn, and git repository management will be provided on the same |
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server for projects that need it. |
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> One of the |
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> explicit aims of the Community Bonding period is to get you upto speed with |
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> the version control system you will be working with. Please contact your |
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> mentor for help *before* signing up with a particular service. In some |
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> cases, you may be expected to work on an existing repository - again - |
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> contact your mentor for specifics. |
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[snip more great advice] |
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> Alec Warner: antarus@g.o |
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> Grant Goodyear: g2boojum@g.o |
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> Joshua Jackson: tsunam@g.o |
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What do the powers that be have to say about soc.ge.o? Can we have it |
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as the official project management place for Gentoo SoC projects? :-) |
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If so, Anant might want to add this to the GSoC section in this month's GMN ;-) |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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