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* Read and follow our [[Code Formatting Conventions]]. | * Read and follow our [[Code Formatting Conventions]]. | ||
* Commit your code as soon as possible, preferably on a daily basis or more often. Our preferred approach to code commits is 'commit early, commit often'. Remember that your code is one of the key project deliverables so the more code we can see the easier it is to judge progress and help ensure that everything goes smoothly. | * Commit your code as soon as possible, preferably on a daily basis or more often. Our preferred approach to code commits is 'commit early, commit often'. Remember that your code is one of the key project deliverables so the more code we can see the easier it is to judge progress and help ensure that everything goes smoothly. | ||
* We use [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion (SVN)] as our version management system. Please refer to the online book [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ Version Control with Subversion] for instructions on how to use SVN. Please also note that all students will be working of individual [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.branchmerge.whatis.html branches] of ScummVM not our main development code | * We use [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion (SVN)] as our version management system. Please refer to the online book [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ Version Control with Subversion] for instructions on how to use SVN. Please also note that all students will be working of individual [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.branchmerge.whatis.html branches] of ScummVM not our main development code. | ||
* Reflect your progress in a weblog. It's fine to reuse your existing weblog, if you have one, with a "ScummVM GSoC" category or so. If you don't have one already, try [http://www.blogger.com/ Blogger], [http://wordpress.com Wordpress] (see also http://wordpress.org), [http://www.movabletype.com/ Movable Type], ... Start blogging very soon, even if it's just a "First post" so we can have a definite URL and we can subscribe to it. (BTW, you might want to add it to http://planet-soc.com/, too). | * Reflect your progress in a weblog. It's fine to reuse your existing weblog, if you have one, with a "ScummVM GSoC" category or so. If you don't have one already, try [http://www.blogger.com/ Blogger], [http://wordpress.com Wordpress] (see also http://wordpress.org), [http://www.movabletype.com/ Movable Type], ... Start blogging very soon, even if it's just a "First post" so we can have a definite URL and we can subscribe to it. (BTW, you might want to add it to http://planet-soc.com/, too). | ||
* Create your user page on our Wiki and give a brief overview on what you are working on. However, your weblog is the main place to write about your progress. | * Create your user page on our Wiki and give a brief overview on what you are working on. However, your weblog is the main place to write about your progress. | ||