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Posted by on January 27, 2009, 4:49 pm
> thecodebend...@gmail.com wrote:
> > 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.
> Just to give you a data point. The Home Brew Robotics club
> in silicon valley (disclaimer I'm the president) has 100+ robots
> and to the best of my knowledge, essentially no code sharing.
> Every robot is individually programmed. In order to have shared
> code, common hardware is required and basically nobody wants to
> standardize on a common hardware platform. (I've tried and failed
> to get such standardization to occur.) It will happen eventually,
> I just do not know when. I do not want to discourage you, I just
> want you to understand that it is not easy.
> -Wayne
Thanks for the input, however, we're a small club and we're working on
a single craft and have made things as modular as possible. Currently
most of our embedded development is done on custom Arduino based
boards with a tiny PC provided by Lipert acting as the overall brain.
The objectives year to year from the competition for which we are
competing are similar enough that we need a way to leave the code to
the people coming in next year as well as chronicling what we have
tried and what didn't work. Right now we're missing a lot of what
"we" had last year as it's just of floating around with different
graduated members. I'm looking to establish this repository as a long
term solution as well as a short term project management one.
I found something interesting to anyone working on a similar project
that may come across this, http://origo.ethz.ch/ , it's a wiki, forum,
SVN, and bug tracker all in one. Also it's free, for open or closed
source :-). I'm not sure if it's my full answer, but it certainly
look promising.
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