My vote is that it is definitely worthwhile.
Like cvsweb, some will use it some wont, but as long as it doesnt rely on
mods to CVS or Bugzilla itself, then it will gain a good initial following,
and gain.
I'd be willing to chip in a bit of effort for an NT port as reqd.
regs,
Arthur
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> 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).
>
> I'll be selling this internally as an ideal candidate for an open source
> solution - after a bit of initial hacking, I'd like to drop the stuff on
> SourceForge under a BSD or GNU license. Now I cannot promise that I'll be
> able to pull this through, but it would help me if there would be lots
> of interest to actually use this stuff in the CVS community. Would
> people consider/like to/love to switch to a more process-based shell
> around CVS? Or is the general feeling that this sort of stuff ain't
> necessary?
>
>
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