SuperWaba on SourceForge (SF) introduction

This page describes the Superwaba SourceForge project's available features, and choices made in setting up the Superwaba project on Sourceforge.

It is also a Superwaba SF usage proposal for general comment; we need your valuable feedback. Then we can all set up the best possible environment to gain new developers and this simplifies the current developers life!

In advance, I ask Sourceforge fans to forgive me for presenting some very basic information for novice users that have never experienced OpenSource^? projects.

List of available Sourceforge features:

User specific features:

my "sf.net": is your user tab that displays all your information about the different projects you contribute in. It gives you access to your account settings to specify your preferences, your knowledge and your skills if you want. To get a SF account go to http://sourceforge.net/account/register.php Please, if you intend to become an official Superwaba contributor with priviledged SF access rights, create an account with the same login as the Superwaba site login. Guich asked this, he may clarify why. Once your account is created and you are ready to become a Superwaba developer, please contact Guich.

Superwaba specific features:

• Summary:

The summary tab is a public information tab to describe the project. It also gives some statistics on the activity (activity percentile) that reflects a project dynamic, page views and downloads statistics, etc.

• Homepage:

The homepage is redirected to http://www.superwaba.com.br/, because Guich does not want to port his ASP based website to SF.

• Forums: No public forums have been set up, because Guich wants to keep the newsgroup

''news://news.falch.net/pilot.programmer.waba'' up and running for application developers support and information exchange. However, a private "Developers" forum has been created...

• Trackers: Among the 4 SF standard trackers, 2 have been set as public.
  • Patches: Everyone can create new patch items (a patch feature is now available as an "Ant" target) to facillitate code contribution of any type.
  • Feature requests: To ensure we benefit of everyone's ideas on improving Superwaba, the feature request page has been made publicly available.
  • Bugs: The bug tracking system has been hidden, because Guich wants these public requests be posted in his newsgroup.
  • Support requests: Same policy as for bugs.

• Tasks: Guich asked for about 2 private task groups.
  • Features adding: To group all tasks concerning Superwaba features developements.
  • Bug fixing: To group all bug fixing tasks. Tasks will not be used immediately...

• Docs:
  • the FAQ both in English and French are referenced.
  • the Superwaba install instructions in French, German and English.
  • a SuperWaba presentation
  • a Superwava SDK introduction
  • all Guich's free & commercial tutorials are referenced.

There are 9 English documents, 3 French translations and 1 German, so translators are welcome to join in.

• News: is used to announce important Superwaba facts such as new important features, releases, etc.

• Files: gives access to the Superwaba public user releases, release notes and install files for all systems.

• CVS: We have set up a common module called "SuperWabaSDK" that contains two sub-modules; "src" and "vm".

You can checkout both sub-modules together ("cvs co SuperWabaSDK") or the two modules independently ("cvs co src" or "cvs co vm"). To get CVS write access, you need to setup ssh on your system. I recommend you to do it properly because a bad ssh configuration falls back to password authentication and requires many, many password entries!
You can find all the info to setup ssh here

For a complete CVS developer overview you may also want to read this