[Yanel-dev] Code review with Yanel

[Michael Wechner]

Michael Wechner schrieb:
> Dear All
>
> I recently read a lot about  code review system as for example
>
> http://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/default.jsp
>
> but there seem to be a lot of flaws with all the existing ones, so it 
> came to my mind that with Yanel we could actually build one very 
> nicely, whereas our first implementation could be SVN as the data 
> repository (obviously ;-)
>
> So here is my suggestion:
>
> - We create code review realm with a code review resource, which 
> allows to upload/check-in a file just as one would do with SVN
> - We develop a repo implementation accessing three SVN branches:
>     - trunk (all reviewed code)
>     - staging branch (code which has not been reviewed yet, plus of 
> course the reviewed files which are not changed)
>    - workflow branch (for peformance reasons keep this separate)
>
>
> This setup would have the following advantages:
>    - One easily implement new backend repository implementation (for 
> examle CVS)
>    - One has the full information within the backend repository (for 
> example SVN)
>    - One has all the review logic nicely decoupled from the backend 
> repository
>
> WDYT?

btw, another possibilty would be that Yanel acts as SVN proxy, such that 
one could use the SVN command line or Subclipse, but every change would 
be treated as a file to be reviewed and then forewarded to the actual 
SVN in the background (again the three branches)

Cheers

Michi
>
> Cheers
>
> Michi