The developers at Zenoss have used a variety of ways to configure their development environment. Several of us use the Eclipse IDE, but it take special consideration on using it effectively with the Zenoss source tree.

In a series of blog posts, I've described my personal Zenoss development environment and how it is configured.

In Part 1, I discuss how to initially check out Zenoss from source and get a working instance on either Mac OS X or Ubuntu.

In Part 2, I discuss how to install and configure Eclipse to use this checked out version of Zenoss.

And in Part 3, I discuss how I work with the Zenoss source for day-to-day activities using branch-based development.