[I-mobile-u] Documentation for Mobile Web Project

[Drew Stevenson]

On Oct 30, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Andrew J Yu wrote:
> Phase 1 (today): Distribute the source code as is (we hope to have  
> the 2.0 ready for SourceForge by early next week)
> Phase 2 (mid-November): Set up SVN with the revised 2.0 code base  
> and allow for each school to set up its own branch. This should  
> allow everyone to provide contributions within their own  
> environment. Whoever is interested in grabbing the specific  
> functionality can do so from these branches.
> Phase 3 (2010): Set up  a Generic/Common branch or a new SVN that  
> works as for a “generic” mobile web site.

Hey Andrew,

That's a fantastic roadmap. We're excited to see what you've been up  
to on 2.0 and to work with you, Dave and others going forward.

Sincerely,

Drew Stevenson
University of Minnesota
Office of Information Technology
drew at umn.edu





> Dave,
>
> Thanks for your questions and thoughts.
>
> The MIT Mobile projects (mobile web, SMS, native applications –  
> prototype for iPhone only for now) are currently using SVN. We plan  
> on setting up the SVN on SourceForge (hopefully in the next two  
> weeks) after we had a chance to play with the structure of the 2.0  
> code. We are leaning towards creating separate branches for each  
> school that’s participating. The intent would be to create a shared  
> SVN space without introducing the complexity of managing contributors.
>
> I see this as a 3 phase process:
> Phase 1 (today): Distribute the source code as is (we hope to have  
> the 2.0 ready for SourceForge by early next week)
> Phase 2 (mid-November): Set up SVN with the revised 2.0 code base  
> and allow for each school to set up its own branch. This should  
> allow everyone to provide contributions within their own  
> environment. Whoever is interested in grabbing the specific  
> functionality can do so from these branches.
> Phase 3 (2010): Set up  a Generic/Common branch or a new SVN that  
> works as for a “generic” mobile web site.
>
> I welcome any suggestions, but I thought this would allow us to  
> proceed with minimal “administrativia” during the first 2 phases. It  
> will also allow all of us to see what each school is doing  
> individually as well as being able to access their contributions  
> directly from the SVN branch that they are responsible for  
> maintaining.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> On 10/30/09 2:46 PM, "Dave Olsen" <dmolsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a version control system that people feel comfortable with?
> I'm most familiar with Subversion and Git. Downloading a zip file
> isn't exactly the most sustainable way to either deliver code or
> accept changes back.
>
> In a similar vein, one of the things I played around with is trying to
> have each part of the site be essentially a standalone module. Maybe
> finding a standard that people feel comfortable with would make it
> easier to expand the Mobile Web project. I don't know how much work it
> would be in the v2 environment of MIT Mobile Web but it wasn't
> terribly difficult to set-up in the v0.9.
>
>
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