I had originally setup a SourceForge project for ArcDeveloper.net, but the whole SourceForge experience is clunky and web 1.0. So when I found out about Assembla, I immediately setup a project.

Assembla is a really cool, free Subversion + TRAC + wiki + Scrum development tool / service. It's really amazing. It's totally free for projects up to 200Mb in size (which is a MOUNTAIN of source code).

ArcDeveloper Projects

A repository and some tools is nice, but a bigger question is what projects will be there. Well, my goal for ArcDeveloper is to provide a set of code resources that will make unit testing on ArcGIS projects easier. Since software quality is something that all developers must address, and since it's the same regardless of your vertical market, I think that few organizations would object to using and contributing to this effort.

Getting Access

The repository is open for all users, just point your Subversion client to http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/arcdeveloper and you can get latest on everything. If you are not familiar with Subversion, Assembla has some handy starter info here, and you can Google for mountains of information.

Project Status (TRAC)

The project is managed in TRAC - since it's a web based tool, you can access it here: http://trac2.assembla.com/arcdeveloper/wiki. There's not a whole lot in there yet, but I'll be posting about the inital project shortly.

Bug Reporting / Feature Requests / Contributing

You'll need to be a member on the project to add a TRAC ticket. The easiest way to do this is to contact me, and I'll send you an invite directly from Assembla. If you are already an Assembla member (sigh-up here - takes 30 seconds and it's free), you should be able to contact me through the project's team page. Either case, as far as I can tell, I have to invite you into a project - I don't think you can "apply" to join.

Once you are a member of the project, you will also be able to contribute code.

So that's it for now - as I said, I'll be posting about the initial code base shortly...