From bugzilla-daemon at ecoinformatics.org Sun Apr 13 12:06:00 2003 From: bugzilla-daemon at ecoinformatics.org (bugzilla-daemon@ecoinformatics.org) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:06:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [wow] [Bug 1037] - create cvs module and mailing lists for WOW Message-ID: <20030413190600.0581AB7719@ecoinfo.nceas.ucsb.edu> http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037 jones at nceas.ucsb.edu changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |wow-dev at ecoinformatics.org QAContact|jones at nceas.ucsb.edu |wow-dev at ecoinformatics.org From bugzilla-daemon at ecoinformatics.org Sun Apr 13 12:07:16 2003 From: bugzilla-daemon at ecoinformatics.org (bugzilla-daemon@ecoinformatics.org) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:07:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [wow] [Bug 1037] - create cvs module and mailing lists for WOW Message-ID: <20030413190716.4A3E6B7719@ecoinfo.nceas.ucsb.edu> http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037 ------- Additional Comments From jones at nceas.ucsb.edu 2003-04-13 12:07 ------- Accounts created. Finishing CVS server setup. From jones at nceas.ucsb.edu Sun Apr 13 12:37:00 2003 From: jones at nceas.ucsb.edu (Matt Jones) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:37:00 -0800 Subject: [wow] new collaboration tools for WOW Message-ID: <3E99BC5C.90307@nceas.ucsb.edu> Neo, Jen, Ilmi, Rich, and Paul, At Rich's request, I have set up several tools for working collaboratively on the WOW project. These are tools that we use at NCEAS for other projects, and have found that they increase our productivity as a group substantially. They inject a bit of structure into things, which can take a bit to get used to, but they are really quite straightforard to learn to use. Please let me know if you have any questions. A brief synopsis of the tools is below, and Rich volunteered to explain their use to each of you if and when needed. Cheers, Matt PS, pls forward this to Paul as I don't have his address. Thanks. Accounts -------- I've created accounts for each of you on the cvs.ecoinformatics.org server to support mail and other tools. You can change your password by logging in using SSH (secure shell) and running the "passwd" command. I'll send your username and password in a separate email. Shared documents and source code: --------------------------------- The WOW CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) module provides a shared space for developing documents and source code. It tracks the version history of every document in the module, and allows you to access any version of a document that has ever been committed. It also notifies a mailing list when someone changes a document, so it is easier to synchronize work with other people. All documents in CVS are also visible on the web at http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org. This is by far the most valuable of the tools in this list, but also takes a bit of learning to use it. To write to the CVS server you'll need to use a CVS client program. There are several available but I like the free TortoiseCVS (http://www.tortoisecvs.org). Here is the connection information: CVSROOT = :ext:dunne at ecoinformatics.org:/cvs Be sure to change "dunne" in the string above to your username on ecoinformatics.org (dunne, iyoon, martinez, pyoon, rwilliams) when connecting. Rich can give you an overview of how to use cvs, right Rich? WOW mailing lists ----------------- Two mailing lists were created. One for general WOW discussions (wow-dev at ecoinformatics.org) and one for CVS log messages generated when someone changes files in the CVS repository (wow-cvs at ecoinformatics.org). I subscribed everyone except Paul (I need his email address). The wow-dev list is currently set to create a publicly visible html archive of the messages, but this feature can be changed to be a private archive or turned off altogether if you desire. You can change your subscription options and see archives of the wow-dev list via a web page for each list: wow-dev: http://www.ecoinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/wow-dev wow-cvs: http://www.ecoinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/wow-cvs Task, Issue, and Bug list ------------------------- I have created a WOW module under our bug tracking system. We use this for recording and assigning tasks, for describing and discussing features and enhancements of a software system, for documenting changes and decisions about software systems, and for reporting and describing the fixes for software bugs. Very useful. Accessible at: http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org Create an account for yourself there (using your email address) in order to make changes. Look under the WOW module for WOW stuff. There's only one WOW task right now, so some of the other modules (e.g. EML) will give you a better idea of how we use the tool. IRC chat server --------------- We have a shared chat server (Internet Relay Chat) for quick discussions among a distributed team. Its like instant messaging but has a lot more features that allow for larger groups to chat. You'll need an IRC client (see the link below). You'll also need to send me your IP address so that I can authorize you to connect. We'll probably start off discussions in the #wow channel. Rich can help you get started setting up, but there is a summary page that I wrote for another project here that might be sufficient: http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/dev/irc.html See you on IRC soon! From bugzilla-daemon at ecoinformatics.org Sun Apr 13 13:00:51 2003 From: bugzilla-daemon at ecoinformatics.org (bugzilla-daemon@ecoinformatics.org) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [wow] [Bug 1037] - create cvs module and mailing lists for WOW Message-ID: <20030413200051.8AE3DB7719@ecoinfo.nceas.ucsb.edu> http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037 ------- Additional Comments From jones at nceas.ucsb.edu 2003-04-13 13:00 ------- Accounts, CVS, Bugzilla, mailing lists, and IRC have now all been set up. A synopsis of these tools can be seen in the mailing list archive at: http://www.ecoinformatics.org/pipermail/wow-dev/2003-April/000002.html This task is finished, but I will leave it open for a few days so that others can see the lifecycle of a task in the bugzilla system.