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Posted by on January 27, 2009, 1:34 pm
> thecodebend...@gmail.com writes:
> > As of now, the North Carolina State University Underwater Robotics
> > Club (URC) has no sort of code or project management. There have been
> > attempts in the past to use an SVN and wiki's but both attempts
> > ultimately failed. I feel like the club needs a place where dates and
> > times are readily available for events going on and where code can be
> > accessed and placed when we are working on things separately. We
> > currently are using a mailing list.. which is working surprisingly
> > well but falls short on being able to host code or work as a calendar
> > of any sort. I was curious as to if anyone had any suggestions on
> > routes I might take on setting up a usable web based system. Any
> > thoughts or help would be greatly appriciated.
> First question is why did the efforts fail?
> Most of the time, the main thing that's needed to get code repositories
> (etc) to work is for somebody to take the bull by the horns and do the
> management. Set up the repository, and when somebody makes a change
> bug them about checking the code in. When there's a presentation, bug
> the presenter about putting the slides up on the wiki. And so on.
> Incidentally, I've recently started using google calendar (since I
> just got a new G1 phone), and it looks like it would be really, really
> good organizational calendars.
Mostly I suppose they fell apart simply because not enough of the club
was actively and consistently using them. Also the SVN was never
properly setup or managed, the basic understanding of the club is it
was too complicated.. I looked into project server and project .net
but neither of those offer the code repository that we're in need of.
I suppose I might be looking for an "easy" solution where there isn't
really one. I like google code/calendar/groups but the problem lies
in basically opening up all of our efforts and code. While I'm an
open-source advocate myself there are other members who are not.
Automation from the calendar to email would be nice come to think of
it... so that might be something to look in to. I would like to keep
it as single solution as possible if we can, trying to not run two
totally different services like an SVN and a wiki, but they do seem to
be fairly compatible so again I may be making more out of the issue
than there is to it. Thanks for your thoughts!
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> Club (URC) has no sort of code or project management. There have been
> attempts in the past to use an SVN and wiki's but both attempts
> ultimately failed. I feel like the club needs a place where dates and
> times are readily available for events going on and where code can be
> accessed and placed when we are working on things separately. We
> currently are using a mailing list.. which is working surprisingly
> well but falls short on being able to host code or work as a calendar
> of any sort. I was curious as to if anyone had any suggestions on
> routes I might take on setting up a usable web based system. Any
> thoughts or help would be greatly appriciated.