Hi, Don't you think that collaborative development can work in your project? Does anyone have some experience with this?
Greets, Eike Eike Starkmann wrote: > Dear freenet project, > > My name is Eike Starkmann and I'm working as part of the Saros Team at > the Freie University in Berlin. > > Saros is an Eclipse plugin for collaborative text editing and > distributed pair programming, i.e. it allows two or more developers to > work together in real-time on the same files. It is similar to Gobby, > SubEthaEdit or Google Docs but focuses on programming in Eclipse. > > In my opinion your can benefit from Saros because I think it brings > many advantages to Open Source Software development: > > * Distributed Pair Programming is like a live peer review. This should > help with finding good design, get rid of bugs, increase readability, etc. > > * Transferring knowledge should be easier to do when more than one > person look at and work with the same code. This should also help to > give new developers an introduction to the code. > > * In contrast to screen sharing, Saros only shares your actions inside > of Eclipse with regards to the project you are both working on (think > privacy) and you are still independent to explore the project on your own. > > Saros can be useful in the following contexts: > > * Working on complicated problems in the code > * Performing code reviews > * Debugging > * Code presentation > * Code sprints > * Introducing new developers to the project > * ... > > It is my master thesis to figure out whether Saros is useful when > developing Free/Open Source Software. > > What do you think? Could you and freenet benefit from doing pair > programming using Saros? If you think so I would like to join our > project and help you with using Saros. > > If you are interested in Saros but still curious about how it works > please visit our website or feel free to contact me. > > I hope you will find Saros useful and give me feedback. > > Kind regards, Eike Starkmann > > Website: https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/DPP > Update Site: http://dpp.sf.net/update > Saros @ SF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dpp/ > Programming Languages Supported by Saros : > https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/DPPCompatiblePlugin > -- Eike Starkmann This message is part of my Master thesis research. Feel free to contact my advisors in case of inappropriate behavior on my side: christopher.oezbek at fu-berlin.de and stephan.salinger at fu-berlin.de
