Meeting Summary

Let's first get you set up with Plone.

Swing by our site and download the package for your OS (Windows, Mac OS X or Linux) http://sse.se.rit.edu/projects/sseis/meetings/meeting-4-development-environment-meeting/plone-zope-download-3.1.7/

It will link you directly to an Installer for Zope (The web server and platform) and Plone (The Content Management System we're using). Once it's finished downloading, run the installer (it may take a while) and then reboot your machine if it asks to. If all goes well, you should have a new item in your Start menu (assuming you are on a Windows machine) titled "Plone" - go into there and start the Plone program. A small server control GUI then pops up. Click start to start the server, and you then should have your very own Zope and Plone server running. Usually it defaults to 8200 I think, but you should check in the "Ports" section of your server configuration tool.

To access your new Plone server, just type http://localhost:8200/plone
(assuming 8200 is the port you're running the server on)

If you're having difficulty starting your server, check your firewall (Windows Firewall, Zone Alarm, McAfee, Norton, etc.) and make sure it's letting the program through. You may have to manually add it. If you haven't run into that problem, congratulations, you now have a testing environment all set up on your local workstation.

Note: Python will be running in the background while the server is running. Python is a little bit of a resource hog, so unless you've got plenty to spare it might not be a bad idea if you stopped the server whenever you weren't using it.

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Second part is the Mercurial version control system.

Download Tortoise Hg from our site ( http://sse.se.rit.edu/projects/sseis/meetings/meeting-4-development-environment-meeting/mercurial ) and then install it and reboot. Look at the Mercurial Concept Sheet and Understanding Mercurial and then try the Mercurial Quick start on your own using our own repository. Use your DCE for authentication. The link to the repository is on our website, but here it is again just in case: https://sse.se.rit.edu/hg/sseis/membership

We had everyone commit & push a new text file containing their name as a demonstration of submitting a new file. We also had everyone add their name to an existing text file as an example of merging.