Over the past several weeks ArsDigita has put the following
services in place to enhance our support for open-source development:
- Software Development Manager
We have adopted the SDM, developed by Ben Adida and already in use
at https://openacs.org/, as our primary
tool for tracking ACS bugs and feature requests. SDM bug reporting
was integrated into the ACS 3.4 request processor so that any page
throwing an error offers the user the option of submitting an
automatic
bug report to http://www.arsdigita.com/sdm/.
- Browseable ACS Repository
We set up a new CVS Web server, http://cvs.arsdigita.com/, to make
it easier for interested developers to browse the ACS repository.
This is an excellent tool for interacting with CVS and tracking the
development of a project. The information is served from our live CVS
repository so it is always up-to-date.
- Anonymous access to the ACS Repository
Interested developers can now checkout the latest source code (or
export any previous release of ACS) directly from the ArsDigita CVS
repository. This will make it much easier for users to contribute
patches that can be quickly integrated into the ACS source tree. Use
the pserver method to connect to the repository:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.arsdigita.com:/usr/local/cvsroot login
password: acsrules
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.arsdigita.com:/usr/local/cvsroot
checkout acs
Again, changes will be available to any interested developer as
soon as they are committed to the ACS repository by aD
programmers.
There is a
CVS for Web
Development bboard for posting questions related to the use of CVS
at ArsDigita, and articles like
Version Control
for Web Development using CVS that describe our policies for
managing the repository.
These are steps that many developers within aD have been looking
forward to taking for quite some time, and are excited to see finally
in place. We hope that the availability of these tools will foster a
closer relationship with the open-source community and futher
accelerate development of the ArsDigita Community System.
