The assignment this week was to create a centralized location where our open source projects can be accessed by the world. Utilizing Google Project and Subversion (svn), I created a site for Failbot. The assignment involved using Subversion for versioning and uploading/downloading to/from the project site. Subversion is a neat little program that melds itself into Windows explorer, adding a few entries to the right click menu. Interestingly enough, subversion can be invoked on a folder by folder basis. This means that subversion can be implemented only where you want it. The program is fairly light weight, but provides a lot of functionality. It's definitely one of the tools I'll be using in the future. It's nice to no longer have to "File ->Save As... " every time I want to make a backup of my working files.
I finished creating both my project site and discussion group, and added my partner to both. I also generated a Developer Guide and User Guide based on Prof. Johnson's examples. I found the markup language that Google uses for it's wiki pages has a quick learning curve, and provides all of the basic functionality needed. However, that isn't to say that I enjoyed using it. I must have previewed each wikipage half a dozen times before I finally got the pair right. This assignment was perhaps the simplest so far, but there was a lot of new stuff that was floated my way. I've known about all of the Google features that were implemented in this project, but I had never had a reason to utilize them until now. It's like visiting the tourist traps in your home town, you never actually go until someone from out of town makes you.
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