* Re: [gentoo-soc] Welcome GSoC Students!
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@ 2008-04-23 20:57 99% ` Alec Warner
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From: Alec Warner @ 2008-04-23 20:57 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-soc
grr, sent as wrong sender again...
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@scriptkitty.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan
> <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Anant Narayanan <anant@gentoo.org> 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@gentoo.org 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@gentoo.org
> > > Grant Goodyear: g2boojum@gentoo.org
> > > Joshua Jackson: tsunam@gentoo.org
> >
> > 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
> > --
> >
> >
> > gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> >
>
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