Re: SoC: Require students to develop in a public repository?

Max Bowsher <maxb1_at_ukf.net> writes:
> I'd like to suggest that for this year's SoC, we ask all students to
> do their day-to-day development in a public repository, be it at
> googlecode, svn.collab.net, red-bean.com or elsewhere.

+1 on svn.collab.net branches.

> One of the significant problems in previous years has been getting
> code to mentors in time for them to do a thorough review in time to
> write up their mid-term and final reports for Google - if the code
> under development is continuously available, it makes it possible for
> the mentor to maintain a better understanding of the evolving code,
> rather than having to review a large chunk of changes on a short
> deadline.

Completely agree. I hope no one objects to just using branches in the
main repository for this.

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Received on 2008-03-22 18:19:18 CET