Development Tools for Open-Source Software. Aron Pajczyk [email_address] April 2008, Aberystwyth University

Managing open-source projects. Tools Overview: Bug Tracking Systems Version Control Systems Tools in use (Gnome Nautilus OSS project). Find da bug… and kill it! … or just remove it from source file. References.

Managing open-source projects.

Tools Overview:

Bug Tracking Systems

Version Control Systems

Tools in use (Gnome Nautilus OSS project).

Find da bug… and kill it!

… or just remove it from source file.

References.

Not a trivial task: multi-developer projects geographically-spread collaboration Aid needed throughout the development cycle OSS Development Tools

Not a trivial task:

multi-developer projects

geographically-spread collaboration

Aid needed throughout the development cycle

OSS Development Tools

tracks project issues developers’ communication medium is a database of bugs allows maintaining the status of a bug Mostly online tools: www.mantisbt.org www. bug zilla.org – integrated with svn!!! Bugzilla logo by Dave Shea

tracks project issues

developers’ communication medium

is a database of bugs

allows maintaining the status of a bug

Mostly online tools:

www.mantisbt.org

www. bug zilla.org – integrated with svn!!!

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugzilla The lifecycle of a Bugzilla bug Statuses of a bug:

Similar commonly used by businesses MS Word VCS: They annotate history of your project Track and control over changes in a file (comparison or restoring changes) Helps avoiding modification conflicts Two most popular ones: Concurrent Versioning System ( CVS ): default in Eclipse Subversion ( svn ): compatible successor for CVS

Similar commonly used by businesses

MS Word VCS:

They annotate history of your project

Track and control over changes in a file (comparison or restoring changes)

Helps avoiding modification conflicts

Two most popular ones:

Concurrent Versioning System ( CVS ): default in Eclipse

Subversion ( svn ): compatible successor for CVS

Command-line clients vs. plug-ins vs. online tools File Manager ‘ Nautilus ’ for Gnome Desktop Open-Source Project Nautilus Project: http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/ Developer’s Home Page: http://developer.gnome.org/ Online Gnome Development Tools: http://developer.gnome.org/tools/

Command-line clients vs. plug-ins vs. online tools

File Manager ‘ Nautilus ’ for Gnome Desktop Open-Source Project

Nautilus Project: http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/

Developer’s Home Page: http://developer.gnome.org/

Online Gnome Development Tools: http://developer.gnome.org/tools/

Tool: GNOME Bug Tracker from Bugzilla Example Bug# 516353 – Title Capitalization for File Operation window. Details of the bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516353

Tool: GNOME Bug Tracker from Bugzilla

Example Bug# 516353 – Title Capitalization for File Operation window.

Details of the bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516353

Tool: online Gnome SVN: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/ Example Bug# 516353 fixed in the source file: [nautilus] / trunk / libnautilus-private / nautilus-progress-info.c Revision record: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/nautilus/trunk/libnautilus-private/nautilus-progress-info.c?view=log Well done to Cosimo Cecchi! The App has been improved!

Tool: online Gnome SVN: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/

Example Bug# 516353 fixed in the source file: [nautilus] / trunk / libnautilus-private / nautilus-progress-info.c

Revision record: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/nautilus/trunk/libnautilus-private/nautilus-progress-info.c?view=log

Well done to Cosimo Cecchi! The App has been improved!

CVS as default in Eclipse under Team menu. Pluggable svn for Eclipse available on svn website. Revision systems clients: svn : http://subversion.tigris.org/ svn free book: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ CVS : http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/ CVS free book: http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ Online free development tools and file repositories: http://sourceforge.net/ http://code.google.com/hosting/

CVS as default in Eclipse under Team menu.

Pluggable svn for Eclipse available on svn website.

Revision systems clients:

svn : http://subversion.tigris.org/

svn free book: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

CVS : http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/

CVS free book: http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/

Online free development tools and file repositories:

http://sourceforge.net/

http://code.google.com/hosting/

You now know how to improve open-source projects with OSS development tools.