My first thoughts are that this sort of thing is probably more useful in environments where people are in close physical and temporal proximity to each other (eg. an office).
The freenet project is made up of people scattered all over the world; most of the development does not occur in parallel by multiple developers in real time. X Eike Starkmann wrote: > 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 >> >
