Github, project task tracking and discussion forum

[Li Li]

Hey guys,

1. These two days I've been working on our Github page. I have created a team for each project and a repository for each team. Now you can start coding by pushing commits to the repository.

2. I was looking for a good task tracking system for us to keep track of our progress. My criteria is that it should be consistent with our github repositories, so every time we make a commit to github, the system will notice this immediately. Later I found out that Github itself can handle this perfectly. Github supports creating issues with different milestones, labels and key words, and it can show how much work you have done for each milestone. This feature can completely replace other task tracking systems such as redmine or base camp, so to make things simple I suggest that we only use Github. This is the detailed features of Github Issues.

3. I found a good way for discussing project related problems. Please check out this site: http://ost.io/. This site is created for discussions on Github projects (the name is the abbreviation of "Open Source Talks"), and you can log in with your Github account and sync your repositories to the website. Then you can see all your repositories listed on the site and add topics under each repository. You can even enable it to send you email notifications when you get new messages. 

This is the link to the discussion area of our Github page:

http://ost.io/@Bucknell-Open-Source-Project-Community

If you look at your right, you will notice that I am the only person in the community now. To change this, this is what you need to do:

• connect to the site with your Github account
• go to our github page, click on "members" (https://github.com/orgs/Bucknell-Open-Source-Project-Community/members), and make yourself public by clicking a button.

Wait for a while and your name will appear on the discussion page on ost.io.

4. Since we have a place to discuss project related problems, this Google Groups will be used to make announcements, such as announcing meeting dates and plans, sharing new ideas, giving suggestions, etc. Again, please add tags to topics you post for easier searching.

Please make sure you've done all these things, thanks!!

Li

[Joe Ross]

Maybe I am doing something wrong but, I just wanted to let you know that I am unable to create tags and can only choose from tags that you have created on this google groups.