What CCPForge does Introduction to SESC and CCPForge Workshop Gemma Poulter

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1 What CCPForge does Introduction to SESC and CCPForge Workshop Gemma Poulter

2 What is CCPForge? Software development environment Originally intended for the CCP community Funded by EPSRC, maintained by SEG Based on SourceForge All the tools you need in the same place Use as many or as few

3 CCPForge facts and figures Started: 2006 Current number of users: 2971 Current number of projects: 107 Milestone of 100 hit on 15 July 2014 DL_POLY Classic most downloaded project: 52,597

4 CCPForge homepage

5 Software engineering tools Version Control system Tracker (eg bug, support, features) Software release Discussion and mailing lists Project wiki QA Tools Continuous Integration Coming soon

6 Project Example

7 CCPForge Tools: Version Control Choose from: SVN Git CVS Mercurial Can treat CCPForge as a remote back up in addition to version control

8 Version Control

9 Version Control

10 CCPForge Tools: Trackers Manage and maintain a list of issues and tasks, eg Bugs Support requests Feature requests All history of the issues are stored

11 Trackers

12 Trackers

13 Trackers Each issue can have associated metadata: Priority Developer Target date Good for team working Helpful for project management

14 CCPForge Tools: Software Release CCPForge can be used to release software Variety of licenses available Keep track of number of downloads etc

15 Software Release

16 CCPForge Tools: Discussion Forums Good for discussion of technical issues Keeps all discussion about an issue in the same place Easy to find why a decision was made etc Project help forums good for users Level of access to forums can be controlled

17 Discussion Forums

18 Discussion Forums

19 CCPForge Tools: Mailing lists To disseminate/discuss particular topics Subscription is approved by the list moderator To post a message to all list members, send to: <project>-<name>@ccpforge.cse.rl.ac.uk

20 CCPForge Tools: Project wiki Every project needs one! chains Wiki

21 Project Wiki Available but not currently widely used Improved version with gforge 6.3 CCPForge aims to upgrade towards end of this year.

22 How it works Register for CCPForge One of us will approve you Submit a project request Either to create a new project or join an existing one It s up to project administrators to manage which CCPForge members will have access to the project Roles

23 Roles Roles are configurable, common examples are: Admin Senior Developer Junior Developer Doc Writer Support Tech User

24 Using CCPForge Will be covered in the demo after lunch

25 Alternatives to CCPForge Github Google Developers Bitbucket Sourceforge

26 Alternatives to CCPForge Github Over 16 million repositories Git (but with supported svn features) Unlimited public repositories and collaborators Pay if want private repository Google Developers Bitbucket Sourceforge

27 Alternatives to CCPForge Github Google Developers SVN, Git, Mercurial Free for all open source projects Bitbucket Sourceforge

28 Alternatives to CCPForge Github Google Developers Bitbucket Git or Mercurial only Unlimited free private repositories but max of 5 collaborators Sourceforge

29 Alternatives to CCPForge Github Google Developers Bitbucket Sourceforge Git, SVN, Mercurial, CVS Open source projects only

30 Alternatives to CCPForge Comparison available on wikipedia: General information as well as specific features included CCPForge not included!

31 Contact Dr Gemma Poulter Software Engineering Group Scientific Computing Dept STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Science & Innovation Campus DIDCOT Oxfordshire OX11 0QX SESC website: