[TYPO3-50-general] Distributed pair programming in Typo3

["Christian Müller (Kitsunet)"]

I would be happy to try it with somebody as soon as we have all PHP 
support we need, so if somebody is going to try it just sent me a mail.

I think it can be a quite useful tool, even if I admit, that in such an 
open-source project the working times will be very, very different so 
that it might be difficult to for teams to find together.

Christian

Eike Starkmann wrote:
> Dear Typo3 Team,
> 
> My name is Eike Starkmann and I'm working with Typo3 since 3 years for a
> small Internet agency called undkonsorten.com. During this time I wrote
> a couple of extensions. At the moment I'm working as part of the Saros
> Team at the Freie University in Berlin.
> 
> Saros is an Eclipse plugin for collaborative text editing and
> distributed pair programming, i.e. it allows two or more developers to
> work together in real-time on the same files. It is similar to Gobby,
> SubEthaEdit or Google Docs but focuses on programming in Eclipse.
> 
> In my opinion both  the Typo3 core team (v.4/v.5)  and the extension
> community can benefit from Saros because I think it brings many
> advantages to Open Source Software development:
> 
> * Distributed Pair Programming is like a live peer review. This should
> help with finding good design, get rid of bugs, increase readability, etc.
> 
> * Transferring knowledge should be easier to do when more than one
> person look at and work with the same code. This should also help to
> give new developers an introduction to the code.
> 
> * In contrast to screen sharing, Saros only shares your actions inside
> of Eclipse with regards to the project you are both working on (think
> privacy) and you are still independent to explore the project on your own.
> 
> Saros can be useful in the following contexts:
> 
> * Working on complicated problems in the code
> * Performing code reviews
> * Debugging
> * Code presentation
> * Code sprints
> * Introducing new developers to the project
> * ...
> 
> It is my master thesis to figure out whether Saros is useful when
> developing Free/Open Source Software.
> 
> What do you think? Could you and Typo3 benefit from doing pair
> programming using Saros?
> 
> If you are interested in Saros but still curious about how it works
> please visit our website or feel free to contact me.
> 
> I hope you will find Saros useful and give me feedback.
> 
> Kind regards, Eike Starkmann
> 
> Website: https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/DPP
> Update Site: http://dpp.sf.net/update
> Saros @ SF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dpp/
> Programming Languages Supported by Saros :
> https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/DPPCompatiblePlugin