It's a very nice idea. Essentially you are continuing what CVS started as (a
bunch of scripts wrapping RCS up to be more useful).
Kind regards,
Peter Ring
Forlaget MAGNUS
A Wolters Kluwer Company
-----Original Message-----
From: Cees de Groot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 8:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Activity-based CVS shell
We just closed an evaluation of source management systems, and the good
news is that we are sticking with CVS, Rational ClearCase lost the race. One
thing we learnt, though, from talking and reading is that a lot of ClearCase
customers take the time to define a process around the product, supported
by shell-scripts, triggers, and whatnot. We feel that we want to do the
same to CVS, so I am currently busy writing a shell around CVS (in Python)
that offers an activity-based interface to the repository. The user
typically
won't say "I want to create a branch", but rather "I want to start working
on bugfix xyz" - the shell will take care of branching, deciding when and
what to merge, etcetera. I'm also planning a close integration with the
bug tracking system we use, Bugzilla (so that a developer can click a button
"Start work on this bug", which results in creating a branch etcetera).
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