KatixGforge

This is Katix open source project repository. Admins: Kate Alhola and Karoliina Salminen

All kind of nice open source projects will be here soon ......

In addition to software projects, conceptual aircraft design projects are also hosted.

To join one of the projects, you have to register first. Please look at the top right corner for registration/login.

Please note that the projects are private by default. When they are private, you can't see them on the list on the front page. To show them, you have to click the icon which illustrates a page and an arrow and select your project from there or use the link you may receive to your email address. Go to project settings and make it public, if that is what you prefer.

To get yourself approved, you need to write to karoliina dot t dot salminen at gmail dot com and notify that there is account waiting for approval, otherwise I may suspect you might be spammer or I might not notice your application. Please tell why do you want to join and on what project. Sorry for the inconvenicence, but it is necessary these times.

Subversion repository

If you are not used to gforge before, it may be tricky to use it. If you create a new project and want a wiki page for it, you have to go to the project settings and enable wiki. If you want to upload files to server, then the way to do that is to put them to subversion version control repository. The subversion instructions can be found from the SCM page of each project.

You need subversion client to your computer to access svn repositories. These are best handled from MacOSX and Linux. It is trickier in Windows, but possible. 

To get started (in case of new project), you need to put some files to your svn, it is empty by default containing only folders trunk, branches, and tags. First checkout the repository with svn checkout -command. The full command is described on your project's SCM page. After you have successfully checked out your project, the folders trunk, tags and branches can be found from your hard drive. Now you can copy your files under these directories as you wish. Common practise is that trunk is where the development takes place. So to get started, copy your files under the trunk folder that appeared on your hard drive. Then go to the folder and use svn add -command to add the files to the repository. You are not quite done yet, you need to also use svn commit to push the changes to the svn repository which is located on the katix.org server.

Quick example:

USAGE for checkout: svn checkout --username developername http://katix.org/svn/yourprojectname

One case example:

svn checkout --username developername http://katix.org/svn/bassdesigner

Replace developername  with your gforge username and bassdesigner with your project's name.

Then when you have added files to the folder bassdesigner/trunk

( cd yourprojectname/trunk )

svn add *

svn commit --message "Your commit message goes here"

And then you are done. You can now see that your files were transferred to the server by going to browse with web browser the svn repository.

Wiki

Another important feature of gforge is the wiki. You can create wiki page for your project. Go to the front page and click edit. Read tutorials from internet how to use Wiki if you are not already familiar with it. The format is quite simple.

Here is one case example how to use wiki:

http://gforge.katix.org/gf/project/twinzygger/wiki/?pagename=ConceptDescription

You can document whatever you like, use tables, pictures, text formatting etc. like you would be editing a document. The difference is that your wiki page is automatically shared with everybody whereas your document resides on your harddrive and nobody ever sees it unless you send your document to others. 

Gforge

The wiki and subversion repository are the core elements of gforge. In addition to that you can enable forums and mailing lists for your projects. These can be found from your project's admin page. If these features are not what you are looking for, then this may not be the correct place to look at. If you find and decide that you don't want to use the subversion and/or wiki and other features offered by this gforge software, please remove your empty to-be project so that it does not take unnecessary disk space. Thank you.

No warranty, no scheduled backups, no uptime guarantee

This site offers no warranty of any kind and backups are not regularly taken. If you want to protect that your creation does not disappear in event of disk failure, please do backups from your work to your own computer regularly. This is easily accomplished with the subversion as your local hard drive contains same files than the server if it is frequently svn committed and svn updated. To save wiki pages, easiest way might be the save function on your browser. If you would find later that you after all would like to create for example openoffice,org document out of your wiki page, you can do that most easily by copy-pasting from the wiki page the formatted text to your browser. Works on Mac at least as expected. I can't give any guarantees how it works on Windows. 

It is very important that if you put valuable information to the server that you secure it by yourself by backing it up yourself.