An idea for plugin and 200$ donation from me.

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minimedj
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An idea for plugin and 200$ donation from me.

Post by minimedj »

Hi guys! I am pm for some open source and not open source projects. I use mantis everywhere and I just love it (thanks for developers)!

Intro and idea:
All software needs Code Review (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_review). I believe that it is a good practice to do code review as often as possible. To make code review process smooth, productive and painless developers need good tool. There are few of them available already:
  1. Code Collaborator (http://www.smartbear.com/codecollab.php) — Not free (expensive). Many cool features. Root access needed for installation. Written in PHP.
  2. Review Board (http://www.review-board.org/) - Open Source solution. Very basic functionality. Not very logic in some cases. Written in Python.
  3. Acunote (http://www.acunote.com/promo). Not free (expensive). It is agile software development system. Watch this screencast: http://www.acunote.com/promo/screencast This part is especially interesting for us: http://www.acunote.com/tour/code_inspection
No one of them integrates with Mantis. :-(

What could we do? A plugin! Simple (or not so simple) plugin that provides option to plan and do code reviewing. Of course, integration with SVN is needed. Front-end functionality and sources could be copied from examples above???

p.s. An interface to add code highlighting for new file types would be great.

I will donate 200$ to that person who will release open source (everybody should enjoy it) working version of such a tool.
minimedj
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Re: An idea for plugin and 200$ donation from me.

Post by minimedj »

I just created a repository for this project. You are welcome!

http://code.google.com/p/mantiscodereview/
jreese
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Re: An idea for plugin and 200$ donation from me.

Post by jreese »

As a side note, I am working on a much more complete and useful integration of source control with Mantis. It has been designed from the ground up to provide a robust framework that can easily integrate with any VCS tool by writing a small extension plugin. I already have support for SVN and GitHub, which the code is hosted on. http://github.com/jreese/mantis-source-integration
minimedj
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Re: An idea for plugin and 200$ donation from me.

Post by minimedj »

Hi jreese!

I just checked your link. It is very great what you do! I think your project could be very good start point to extend. What do you think?

Maybe you are interested to add functionality described above? If so, my offer applies for you and I will donate 200$ as I said.

What do you think?
minimedj
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Joined: 21 Jul 2008, 08:23

Re: An idea for plugin and 200$ donation from me.

Post by minimedj »

2jreese more info:

1. For my purposes it would very useful to have integration with SVN. Many projects that I do are not open source, so I cannot publish it's code... Moreover it must be stored on my @very secure@ servers...

2. Would be perfect if I can do something like @Code review version@. @Code review version@ is a version with has issues only from code review tool - so, it is very easy to see on a "road map" what is going on. (actually people could add issues manually to @Code review version@ - it is just fine)
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