Working with a partner on Google Code.

Invite a Member Into Google Project
For how to create and use Google Projects, please see last posting. With Google project, the owner of the project can invite other member into the project using e-mail address. The invited person will become a member of the project once the person accept the request. After became a member of a project, all members can check out the source code and commit after they fixed the code. Owner can setup a

Download Partner's Code and Build
There is one important thing that we working on a team project using SVN client that we always need to check the source code passes the verify tests. This need to be done before commit a project and after updated a project. In this way, each members can start their improving of the project without worrying about other member's mistake. The owner of the project can also setup a mailing lists so that all group members will be notified when there is a new commit of the project or issues. To test the partner's project, I checked out a project from my partner's Google Project. After Downloaded, I ran "ant -f verify.build.xml" on his project but the build was not successful because there were some errors from checkstyle. Thus, I contacted to my partner and asked him to fix the original source code. He fixed his little mistake in a minute and I was notified by e-mail when he committed newer version of the project. I know this will be happen every day in programming job and this was really good experience for me as a programmer. After I finished my small improvements on the project, I checked "ant -f verify.build.xml" passes and committed my project. My Partner Tyler Wolff's project can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/stack-tylerwolff/

SVN Update
Before start the improving on the downloaded project, there is one more important thing to do that we need to update the directory so that make sure we have newest version of the project. Since I setup a mailing list with my project on Google, I also notified by e-mail when my partner committed my project. So, I updated my project directory using Tortose SVN client and ran verify and it passed. I could figure out what he changed by watching his commit message. My project located at http://code.google.com/p/stack-jeho/