* Re: [gentoo-soc] Welcome GSoC Students!
@ 2008-04-23 16:58 99% ` Nirbheek Chauhan
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From: Nirbheek Chauhan @ 2008-04-23 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-soc
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 :)
>
> 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.
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.
> 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? :-)
If so, Anant might want to add this to the GSoC section in this month's GMN ;-)
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