Ground Control 1.1 – Inital Problems
Some good news, I just pushed up version 1.1 of ground control with lots of bug fixes and some of the simpler feature requests. We’re still looking for someone who knows how to do python i18n support and more testers to make sure it works. I’ve released this version for jaunty, karmic and lucid, so no excuses not to give it a try.
I also added some small icons to pretty it up and there’s a bunch of fixes for the UI as well as crash fixes. Don’t forget to report bugs, more details about reporting bugs and a demonstration how to use ground control here: ground-control-demonstration
Tags: groundcontrol, new release, project management, Ubuntu
I installed ground-control and it worked the first time. But then I uninstalled it and installed it again and now eventhough I create a folder ‘Projects’ in the /home directory, I don’t get any options to configure my launchpad account or even load projects. I don’t know what I am doing wrong. Please Help.
By the way, Ground-Control really is awesome and of great help as I am just starting out as a programmer. Thank you.
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Would it be possible to use this for a simple svn repositry aswell? The integration looks really good. I would love to see this working for subversion and cvs would probably be nice for many other users aswell!
SVN and CVS are currently not on my roadmap, but a dare say others will add the functionality.
IMO though, SVN, CVS and other centrally managed repository systems are dead and writing features for them is flogging a dead horse.
i11n? Do you mean i18n? We have some of i18n in QBzr and Bazaar Explorer.
Maby its dead as in not hype or not being the main focus in the oss community or ubuntu community, however there are a lot of users using it daily at work. I hope someone will look into this that have the time to do so.
I love groundcontrol, I absolutely do and I do understand why it would only support launchpad/bzr at the moment (or for the foreseeable future) but I do have to disagree that CVS/SVN are dead. Although a lot of OSS programmers may enjoy git/bzr/mercurial but a lot of major corporations this use CVS/SVN or even small companies that don’t really know what they’re doing (I’ve worked for a few of these) and I agree that support for CVS/SVN would be useful.
That being said, work on groundcontrol for launchpad/bzr and do it well. Fix bugs, add features and make it rock-solid. Once you’ve laid a solid foundation then others will join in and possibly add CVS/SVN support themselves, so you best not worry about it ATM.
Keep up the great work!!
Hi Martin,
thanks so much for such an easy-to-use front-end which keeps the complexity away from the average person. It’s a step in the right direction: Enable people to commit patches when they’ve got some time on their hands without having to dig into bzr etc.
That said, I totally second what Brett said: SVN is still important as a lot of people are using it for their everyday work, but I also suggest focusing on BZR for now.
All best,
Dan
Even if everyone else in the world is using svn, I won’t be doing the work to make it use svn instead of bzr. So I must reiterate: unless a programmer steps forward with a great deal of time on their hands to develop svn compatibility in a way that doesn’t disturb bazaar, then it’s never going to be done and people should not expect it to be done as a natural part of the development process.
Now git, that might be something I could look into later, debian uses git and github.
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