Announcing Cart

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Fri Oct 5 17:36:09 BST 2007


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Nicholas Allen wrote:
> 
>> Well, accuse me of NIH-ism, but I'd be more inclined to integrate Bundle
>> Buggy ;-)
> I think review board does much more than what bundle buggy does though
> (that's by design - not a criticism of bundle buggy).

BB's features thus far have been problem-driven.  For example
problem: We are losing track of patches.
solution: implement Bundle Buggy

problem: No one can tell what they should review
solution: mark merge requests as green, italic and bold if they have
already been reviewed

problem: robert won't use the web UI for voting
solution: implement vote-by-mail

etc.

It would certainly be nice to make it more featureful.  I was afraid of
investing a lot of time in something that might not be used, but BB is a
success now (has a second instance for bzr-gtk, will be in Debian).

> Review board let's you comment directly on the diffs by clicking on
> lines and shows side by side comparisons. You can also mark reviews for
> particular people to review if you want. I guess it does what bundle
> buggy does and the bazaar mailing list combined. It's pretty slick - we
> just started using it at work and are very impressed.

People have certainly asked for features like that in BB also.

> Review board does not have a voting or point system like bundle buggy
> does and nor does it do automatic merging once the required criteria are
> met

BB doesn't do automatic merging either.  That's up to the reviewers,
because
1. by the time they're approved, most requests will not merge cleanly
2. PQM doesn't accept merge directives

> so it doesn't do some things that bundle buggy does. But it's really
> nice to have the diffs and comments handled through one web interface
> instead of using email for commenting.

You can certainly comment through the web UI.  It just doesn't have
native support for commenting on specific lines.

Aaron
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