Steps on plone.org

Plone Software Center

First of all, login to plone.org. What? You don't have an account there yet??? Quick, go subscribe immediately before someone notices. For the others: go on a coffee hunt; you deserve it!

Ah, that's better. Right, you are logged in. Now go to plone.org/products. You should be able to register a new product there by clicking the button marked ``Add new software project''. This will show you an edit form where you can add a new Plone Software Center. This comes with a tutorial that you really want to read as it has lots of tips that I fail to mention here.

Basically, here you can point to a home page, a contact address, a code repository, etcetera. Everything you always wanted. Add the information that is relevant for your project. Maybe add some documentation already or write some improvement proposals or add a bug tracker. Then submit your project for review and wait patiently for one of the reviewers to make your project public.

Place of your code repository

You can keep your subversion repository on a server that you yourself maintain. If your product is any good, you will sooner or later get patches from other developers. If they are really enthusiastic, they will even ask for commit access to your repository as they want to submit changes themselves, perhaps on a branch. That is certainly a workable solution, but you may want to spare yourself some hassle and follow the pack to the plone subversion repository. Probably the collective is the best spot. Follow the instructions for how to get write access to the plone collective svn repository.

Now what am I forgetting? Ah, remember that tar file you made earlier? Add a release to your product page and add the tar file there so people can download it. When you are ready publish the release and prepare for an onslaught of users. But wait! Don't do that yet. You may first want to setup some mailing lists so people can ask questions and search for answers. Read on.