Running a Project with Github

About Me● Lorna Jane Mitchell● Co-Project Lead on Joind.In● Freelance PHP Consultant/Evangelist● Twitter: @lornajane● Site: http://www.lornajane.net

The Project: Joind.In● Instant, public feedback for events● http://joind.in● Open source - hosted on github

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."

Version Control● Keeping-place● Collaboration tool● History

Centralised Version Control

Distributed Version Control

GitHub● Provides supporting tools to track ● users ● repos ● changes ● documents ● source code● http://github.com/joindin/joind.in

Joind.In on Github● Wiki● Source Code● Bug tracking is actually on JIRA● Mailing lists and IRC

Wiki● Overview● Contributors guide● Roadmap

Source Code● One main repo ● project leads have commit access● Users fork to own github repo● Changes come back via pull requests

Source Code Contributions● One branch per changeset● Branch naming conventions● Guidelines from ZF: ● http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display ZFDEV2/Zend+Framework+Git+Guide

Bug Tracking: JIRA● Migrated away from github● Atlassian offers free accounts for open source● Issue owners● Issue status

Mailing Lists● Key link to community● Transparency● Users as well as developers

IRC● Developers mostly● #joind.in on freenode

Openness● IRC + mailing lists● Features under consideration● Platform/hosting changes

Projects on GitHub● Great central resource● Maturing tool● Technology is not the whole answer

Thanks!

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Running a Project with Github

by Lorna Mitchell on Feb 27, 2011

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