Adding a new feature to a project

Posted by mkhairul - November 6, 2008 at 03:11:27 pm -

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I thought of this process after a meeting with our Counselor and Solution Architect. The discussion was brief, the counselor discusses some stuffs up-front with the solution architect, and then the SA called me up and explained it to me, since I also think the feature is suppose to be in the system, there was no objection, I agreed and proceed with the implementation (its a very small system, we didn’t need to do any of the review and approval kind of stuffs).

Since I want to track all this stuff up, and make it available for other people (in the company) to see the activity inside the project, I log the issue inside Mantis the Issue Tracking System. I put in as much detailed information as I can to avoid any vague description of the problem. But wait! The version information for the project is missing, I didn’t write up any docs for version 0.1 (because there wasn’t a need for it at that time, its a small insignificant system after all), so I went into the manage project settings and add in a few version (0.1, 0.2, 0.3). Report the issue and went ahead and branch the trunk into 0.1. (for any of you unfamiliar with Branch and Trunk, its a term we use in Version Control , for more information head to A Visual Guide to Version Control ).

After branching for 0.1, I branched the trunk again for 0.2 to implement the new feature. I know there’s more procedure to it than this but for this kind of small project, I’d rather skip it and get something done.

As soon as I’m done implementing this feature, I’d better write up some docs to help people modify the stuff up (if they want to, but I highly doubt anyone would want to), just in case. Now, I have to put this stuff up into the wiki in bullet points so the team would/might read it.

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