Project Management with Google

In this homework assignment, I learned how to use a centralized configuration manager by using SmartSVN and project hosting with Google Code. The tasks for this assignment were pretty easy if done correctly. The first thing I did was install SmartSVN on my machine. This is the program that does all the subversion work for us. It didn't take long before I got the hang of using SmartSVN on my machine. I used the "robocode-pmj-dacruzer" project to test SmartSVN.

After getting SmartSVN up and running on my machine, I then went ahead and created a new project in Google Project Hosting called "robocode-djl-dabeast." With the help of SmartSVN, I got my robocode system hosted in no time. I went ahead and tried to download the project anonymously in SmartSVN and ran ant -f verify.build.xml. The build was successful which means that everything is set up correctly.

I was able to accomplish all task except for one. An issue with Google that wouldn't allow us to add codesite-noreply@google.com as a member in our discussion list. The main purpose of this was to send out notifications whenever someone commits to the project. I filed the issue here and tried their fix but I'm still not able to generate an email after committing. I think this is the most difficult part of the assignment for me.

There is one important lesson I learned from this and that is to not "Update" my local directory when the repository is empty. I made this mistake in SmartSVN. I didn't commit the local project to the repository before I did the update and it resulted in an empty local directory.

Here are the links to my project and discussion pages:

robocode-djl-dabeast

robocode-djl-dabeast-discuss

Leave a message with your email if you want to contribute to this project :)

-David Joel Lazaro