Develop FOSS project using Google Code Hosting

How to Develop Open Source Project With Google Code Hosting Ex - SvgEdit By – Narendra Sisodiya http://narendra.techfandu.org (C) Narendra Sisodiya, Licensed under CC-By-Sa 2.5 In

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Tools i used

Google Code hosting

SVN Code Repo
Wiki for documentation
Bug Reporting system
Hosting Web application (without server side processing)

Mailing list

Google Group

Annousment

Blogs
Twitter

Editing Tools

Terminal, Gedit, Eclipse etc

1 Step : Project Idea

I wanted to have a lightweight, fast and online svg vector drawing tool.
I searched for internet but was not happy.
I wanted to learn SVG, so I made it from scratch
I thought, Let create a one.

How to create project

Just simple steps at http://code.google.com/hosting/createProject

Demo Time

Code Hosting

One or more programmer can join a project
You can create your project without meeting each other.
Checkout

Downloading a perticular version/branch of project
svn checkout https://PRJ.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ PRJ --username USER1

Checkin/Commit

Uploading changes made in codebase
It will increment the “ revision number ”
svn ci <list of files>

First Checkout code

You need to install svn client on your system

sudo yum install subversion
sudo apt-get install subversion

You can checkout

Trunk , branch

Demo

Checking out Helloworld project

Modify and Commit

Check status of code base (to see what you have modified)

svn status

Get updates : getting latest updates available (changes)

svn update // update to latest version
svn update -r45 //this time travel will bring you at revision 45

Check Diff

svn diff <list of files>

Comit your changes

svn ci <list of files>

Demo

Rivision system

Everytime you update the codebase, it make a new revision

Issue Tracking

blogs

Twitter

How Blogs and Tweet Help

Nobody can see feature from code, You need to write them on blogs
User can comment and suggest for features
You can get new programmer (Ex we got Jeff)
Posting on twitter with hastags (example #svg) give a easy way to annoucement it to huge audience who follows those tags
Give a link to bug/issue tracker so anybody may submit new bugs

Best Practice

Write details about project, it help programmer to understand fast.
Always put labels to project. So it become part of google code search result.
Must make blog and tweet about project to reach wider audience
Write full instruction how a user can install your project.
You can create your Btech/MTech project or assignment codebase using google code hosting to collaboratively with peers.
Create and merges branches
Use svn propset for html, css, js and svg files
Always make version wise tar / zip files and upload them,

You can track papularity using number of downloads

Info Files

Add these Files in your project
README

It contains installation detail

LICENSE

It contains license info

CHANGELOG

This contain versionwise feature changes done by you

AUTHOR

List of authors with their mail ids

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

List of all other projects and persons who helped to make it possible

SVN Propset

svn propset svn:mime-type text/html *.html
svn propset svn:mime-type image/png *.png
svn propset svn:mime-type image/gif *.png
svn propset svn:mime-type text/css *.css
svn propset svn:mime-type text/javascript *.js
Code Directory - http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ will return to files with proper mimetype. Otherwise it will return text file.
Demo

View a Perticular version