I think this is a great idea as well. Just wanted to chime in my support ;)
Craig
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> From: Noel L Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Subject: Re: Activity-based CVS shell
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> This is a very good point. In fact, you might be able to
> take advantage of
> single signon authentication/authorization products available for web
> applications (thereby controlling who gets to do what at a
> finer grain than
> what's easily available with CVS now).
>
> Noel
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/24/2000 03:47:58 PM
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> Cees,
>
> Your proposal sounds very interesting. I can't promise that we'll use
> it, but I'll certainly take a good look. I like your idea.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Avi
>
> p.s. You may also want to keep in mind as you develop it that the web
> is becoming one of the main interfaces for both users and
> administrators. It might not be a bad idea to design your
> interface in
> a way which will allow you or others to add web capability later on.
>
>
> Cees de Groot wrote:
> >
> > 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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