Review Board with a Bazaar repository

[Benjamin Jansen]

On Dec 23, 2011, at 18:15 , Ben Finney wrote:

> Howdy all,
> 
> Review Board <URL:http://www.reviewboard.org/> is a code review tool
> with a command-line tool for submitting review requests, and a web
> application for working with review requests.
> 
> Its documentation doesn't appear to mention Bazaar. Does anyone have
> experience using Review Board to manage code review on a Bazaar
> repository?

Yes. A few years back I rewrote Review Board's Bazaar VCS support, such as it was. We use it at my place of employment. Here are some notes:

  * Use the bzr-diff-revid plugin [1]
  * post-review doesn't support bzr. It's one of the things I have meant to hack on, but never have.
  * I suggest against using the bzr+http protocol to access your repository from RB. It's slow. We use file:// over NFS.
  * I haven't gotten a "parent diff" to work. Never looked into why.

Let me know if you have any specific questions.

- Ben

1:

https://launchpad.net/bzr-diff-revid

I wrote bzr-diff-revid specifically to make bzr/RB work better together. Without it, sometimes loading diffs will fail -- at least, that was the case a couple years ago. Everyone here has the diff_revid plugin, so I suppose bzr's date: rev spec handling could have improved and we wouldn't know it. ;)

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