Source now dual hosted at Github.

Following a general trend in the Rails world, the deployment tool capistrano and hosting service Heroku both use git, the distributed version control tool, rather than subversion, for deployment. I have therefore created a new public repository in my github.com account and Proman is now dual hosted both as a subversion repository at Google Code (see last post) and as a git repository at github.com.

Some of the project management features seem much more polished on Github than Google Code so it may well be that the project will eventually migrate over to Github. In the meantime, the recommended work flow is to check out the project from Google Code. Add a git repository and download the latest HEAD. Merge the HEAD with your checked out local svn repository. After that, you should commit incremental changes to the git repo during each development iteration. On completion, push your git committed changes to github (so they'll be available to the deployer), then commit all the changes to subversion. I will document this better when I have worked out how best to run the joint svn/git set up.

Hello there!

Proman is a web-based management tool designed to help with the gathering of projects, student selection, project allocation and management of undergraduate dissertation projects. It was created by Nicolay Parashkevanov, a student of Mobile Communications and Internet Technology at Swansea University. Proman is a Ruby on Rails application and hopefully it will be going on trial later this month.

The actual Proman project is licensed by an Apache 2 licence and is hosted on Google Code. There is a Google Groups discussion group: swansea-proman-discuss@googlegroups.com.