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:
Code Collaborator (http://www.smartbear.com/codecollab.php) — Not free (expensive). Many cool features. Root access needed for installation. Written in PHP.
Review Board (http://www.review-board.org/) - Open Source solution. Very basic functionality. Not very logic in some cases. Written in Python.
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.
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
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)