Discussion and comments

anonymous on Sun 23 Apr 2006 08:36:39 EST

Can you put a screenshot? Thanks!

Comment by Team5 on Wed 26 Apr 2006 06:21:52 EST

We sure can - see below. Thanks for the suggestion.

Comment by Tim on Mi 10 mai 2006 21:22:15 EST

We use Trac and Subversion, but when we do a code review, the author of the code changes sends the source files he changed to other engineers via email, and they place these files into their working directory, and use subversion diff to compare the working directory with the latest source in repository. All of the changes made by the author are then very clear, and comments can be sent back to the author via email, incorporated/discussed, and then new code changes sent out for review. Obviously, this approach works, but would be much better if it was integrated into Trac. Anyway, I have looked at your documentation, and unless I am mistaken you require the code changes to be committed into repository first, then your code is used to mark each line that was changed, and needs to be reviewed. Is this correct ? If so, do you have any plans to store the code changes into a temporary location, and use subvresion diff to compare with the HEAD revision in the repository, so that the changes are very clear to the person reviewing the code ?

Comment by szm on Ma 30 mai 2006 04:31:24 EST

This plugin would be much more interesting if it could compare svn diffs rather than having the user mark the changes manually, which is error prone, and difficult to compare against the previous version.

Comment by anonymous on Vi 02 iun 2006 18:13:27 EST

It seems that the plugin interferes with the "source:" form of wiki links. These links do only return a div element, like it may be suitable for ajax requests. Is there a workaround?

Comment by anonymous on Vi 02 iun 2006 18:17:26 EST

hm. and "Add comment" implemented as GET request will lead to the above for people like me, who hit reload every once in a while.

Comment by moisei _ at _ gmail.com on Du 02 iul 2006 07:50:19 EST

Codestriker has really good concept on the code-review process. They use a "source code diff" as the item of review rather than "part of code" as it is done in this plugin. Do you have any plans to move in this direction? I wish to have our code review integrated with trac and I even raised some discussion on this topic.

Comment by anonymous on Tue Oct 17 00:52:10 2006

So is this plugin going to be updated to v0.10 and beyond? And will it be updated to work with changesets as opposed or in addition to revisions?

For peer reviews to be most successful, the actual changes to the files should be highlighted automatically by the revision control system (which the changeset view already does), and allow annotations on the entire file.

Comment by anonymous on Tue Oct 17 22:59:39 2006

So is this plugin going to be updated to v0.10 and beyond? And will it be updated to work with changesets as opposed or in addition to revisions?

For peer reviews to be most successful, the actual changes to the files should be highlighted automatically by the revision control system (which the changeset view already does), and allow annotations on the entire file.

Comment by anonymous on Thu Dec 7 02:22:25 2006

The plugin would be usable for me if:

• I could use diffs of arbitrary revisions and/or paths in the repository (tags, trunk, branches etc.)
• I could also use plain source at specific revision at the same time (like for initial review of old code)
• The commenting process is more like http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments/gplv3-draft-2.html where its indicated which are is a "hot" area and much discuessed. Maybe also with an additional option to have colors not for heat but for age of the latest comment(s)

Comment by tag@cpan.org on Thu Dec 7 05:30:33 2006

I'm working on driving a project to replace this. It will have a better functional design, and be more useful to organizations that actually need to implement a real code review process. The goal is to build something we (the folks involved) can all use at our respective organizations of employment.

The project is only in the deciding what needs to be done phase (discussions and requirement gathering began 2006/12/04).

It lives here: http://www.blisted.org/wiki/projects/JianCha

Comment by Anonymous on Sat Feb 16 10:10:33 2008

Just for a reference project -- you might take a look at "Review Board" (http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/). It looks like an excellent open source, python-based code-review project, which allows integration with Subversion, Mercurial, and several other revision-control systems. Perhaps it wouldn't be difficult to re-use some of the code from review board in this plugin.

Comment by Maik on March 10 10:12:33 2008

What is teh current status of this project? Is it still being developed? I think it's a great start, and = in principle - exactly what I am looking for (which is a TRAC based code review system). Unfortunately, as many people stated before me, there are still many features and functionality missing to make it "production ready". Do you need help or manpower to develop this any further or is ths project sort of "closed"?

Comment by Geib on April 3 13:54:22 2008

We use Trac alot and this tool has been something we have looked for a number of time. We have even used CodeStiker?? a bit. We would like the integration with Trac and also offer any help.

Replying to proofek:

anonymous on Sun 23 Apr 2006 08:36:39 EST Can you put a screenshot? Thanks!

They're here now

Replying to proofek:

Comment by Maik on March 10 10:12:33 2008 What is teh current status of this project? Is it still being developed? I think it's a great start, and = in principle - exactly what I am looking for (which is a TRAC based code review system). Unfortunately, as many people stated before me, there are still many features and functionality missing to make it "production ready". Do you need help or manpower to develop this any further or is ths project sort of "closed"?

I am reviving the project right now. The aim is to make it usable with Trac 0.11 first, without adding ANY new features to it, then replace old template system with genshi, and after that we should be able to start adding new features to. It will require a lot of refactoring anyway, but that's an another story.

Replying to proofek:

Comment by Geib on April 3 13:54:22 2008 We use Trac alot and this tool has been something we have looked for a number of time. We have even used CodeStiker?? a bit. We would like the integration with Trac and also offer any help.

That's awsome. Thanks for response. See my previous response regarding "roadmap" of the project, please. All hands are welcome. I will organize everything that will help us with development, including mailing list and developer/contributor corner. Just give me a week or so to stabilize all thinks and I will contact you with all the details.

just wanted to ping you on this. I am interested in this plugin, and am glad you are going through the effort to update/resurrect it. Sorry I can't offer to help (yet) I am still a pollywog when it comes to trac, if I transition to shellback maybe then I can contribute. What I don't have is a clear understanding of the following: What can be reviewed? I.e., is it restricted to code, or could it be any document in the subversion repo? (assuming text based/html so it can be displayed in this web based tool)

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Replying to yoheeb@gmail.com:

just wanted to ping you on this. I am interested in this plugin, and am glad you are going through the effort to update/resurrect it. Sorry I can't offer to help (yet) I am still a pollywog when it comes to trac, if I transition to shellback maybe then I can contribute.

You don't have to be a developer to contribute. Any feedback, opinions, ideas are very welcome. At the moment the tool has a very basic functionality, so there is a lot of work ahead.

What I don't have is a clear understanding of the following: What can be reviewed? I.e., is it restricted to code, or could it be any document in the subversion repo? (assuming text based/html so it can be displayed in this web based tool)

You can basically review any text based document. Just like you mentioned - as long as you can display it it's up to you what do you want to review.

Thanks for all support!

I have Trac 0.11rc1 installed. Which is the proper and latest version of this plugin for RC1? I see 0.11, branches, tags, and trunk. Branches having the most recent updates.

Thanks.

So,

Are we to continue posting comments etc. to this project, or to the 'new' one you have started to supplant it?

I will post one here, and if need be I can repost in the new one:

Do you plan to allow "origination" of the diff creation from within trac? Rather than have the author create the diff locally (still would want to support this, btw). I am thinking in the context of when the model is for each developer to create private branches within the repository. In such a case, the diff could be generated entirely within trac via branch/revisions; then merged back if/when an accepted review has been created.

Also, where are the review results kept, and how do I export them so I can print them out and shove in a project file?

Sorry, i have only looked at the project, planning to install later this week, so if it is obvious after install, I apologize and ignore that last question after slapping me with a few fish.

Replying to W:

I have Trac 0.11rc1 installed. Which is the proper and latest version of this plugin for RC1? I see 0.11, branches, tags, and trunk. Branches having the most recent updates. Thanks.

Yeah, there is a little mess in svn for a moment, I've left the old structure just for backwards compatibility. Basically stable version for Trac 0.11 lives in trunk and branches/0.11.

Sorry for late reponse. Been very busy last 2 weeks

Replying to yoheeb@gmail.com:

So, Are we to continue posting comments etc. to this project, or to the 'new' one you have started to supplant it?

New one? For now I am using this ticket for any user input/feedback/question. I'll be creating user mailing list in the near future - that will be much easier for all of us.

I will post one here, and if need be I can repost in the new one: Do you plan to allow "origination" of the diff creation from within trac? Rather than have the author create the diff locally (still would want to support this, btw). I am thinking in the context of when the model is for each developer to create private branches within the repository. In such a case, the diff could be generated entirely within trac via branch/revisions; then merged back if/when an accepted review has been created.

I don't quite understand your question. Can you elaborate it more?

Also, where are the review results kept, and how do I export them so I can print them out and shove in a project file?

As far as I know they are stored in database. Look into http://trac-hacks.org/browser/peerreviewplugin/trunk/codereview/dbBackend.py. All table names are in there.

Sorry, i have only looked at the project, planning to install later this week, so if it is obvious after install, I apologize and ignore that last question after slapping me with a few fish.

It's all fine. We're all learning after all.

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I can't seem to find how to Vote on a code review. Where is the button or link to give a vote?

which version of python does peerreview require? we run our trac with python 2.3, would it work?

There is a lot of spam on the google groups, is it possible to add captcha or similar verification for joining before posting?

Regardless, I have a question about the plugin for trunk (0.12) specifically I am using the multi repository branch that is often synced with trunk.

When I add the peerreview egg I am rightly notified of the need to upgrade my environment. However, when I run the upgrade command I am notified that no upgrade is needed and the database modifications do not take place.

I will gladly contribute my help where I can. I can't seem to track down the problem here, as it looks like the exact same method is being called for upgrade each time... so I wonder why there is a discrepancy.

Thanks for your great work.

do you hang out on #trac ever? If so, what times?