Google hosting with express SVN checkout

For our final chapter in our robocode project, we got to create our own google project and discussion group. Yes, it might not sound like a fun thing to do, but rest assure that knowing how to do this will make collaboration on future projects a breeze.

Following the instructions from our professor, we managed to host our own project on google and create a discussion group to support our project. Being the owner of the project, we could select who to invite to be our members and give them access to our project. Couple that with a SVN program such as SmartSVN for Mac users or tortoiseSVN for PC, members can check out the project, make modifications to it, and upload it back to the project site with the new modifications. With this, everyone can work on the same project without having to be in the same place. Now isn't this a great thing to know.

With the instructions given, I didn't have much problem completing the tasks. The only hiccup that I ran into was adding codesite-noreply@google.com as a discussion list member. Following the link given by our instructor, I made a posting on googles support site and the moderator was able to give us a quick solution.

Please be sure that you understand that I am *not* adding 
codesite-noreply@google.com to your mailing list.  
Instead, I am changing your project so that it send 
email From: PROJECTNAME@googlecode.com.  
It is then up to you to subscribe that email address 
to your mailing list (if it only allows posts from members).

I've added our discussion list "robocode-aak-sidestep-discuss@googlegroups.com" to receive notification of any new changes/commits, but I didn't receive receive a notification email. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Something that I've learned from this is the usefulness of google project and SVN is. I've used google docs to share documents among group members before, but this is taking it to a different level.

Here are the links to my project page and my discussion group page.