Running a Project with Github

Running a Project with Github

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  Running a Projectwith Github
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  About Me ● Lorna Jane Mitchell ● Co-Project Lead on Joind.In ● Freelance PHP Consultant/Evangelist ● Twitter: @lornajane ● Site: http://www.lornajane.net
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  The Project: Joind.In ● Instant, public feedback for events ● http://joind.in ● Open source - hosted on github
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  GitHub ● http://github.com ● "Online project hosting using Git. Includes source-code browser, in-line editing, wikis, and ticketing. Free for public open-source code."
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  Version Control ● Keeping-place ● Collaboration tool ● History
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  Centralised Version Control
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  Distributed Version Control
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  GitHub ● Provides supporting tools to track ● users ● repos ● changes ● documents ● source code ● http://github.com/joindin/joind.in
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  Joind.In on Github ● Wiki ● Source Code ● Bug tracking is actually on JIRA ● Mailing lists and IRC
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  Wiki ● Overview ● Contributors' guide ● Roadmap
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  Source Code ● One main repo ● project leads have commit access ● Users fork to own github repo ● Changes come back via pull requests
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  Source Code Contributions ● One branch per changeset ● Branch naming conventions ● Guidelines from ZF: ● http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display ZFDEV2/Zend+Framework+Git+Guide
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  Bug Tracking: JIRA ● Migrated away from github ● Atlassian offers free accounts for open source ● Issue owners ● Issue status
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  Mailing Lists ● Key link to community ● Transparency ● Users as well as developers
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  IRC ● Developers mostly ● #joind.in on freenode
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  Openness ● IRC + mailing lists ● Features under consideration ● Platform/hosting changes
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  Projects on GitHub ● Great central resource ● Maturing tool ● Technology is not the whole answer
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  Thanks!