Hi everyone. I'm a very new user of ReviewBoard, I've just set it up, and as you asked for information on how I intend to use it, and suggestion for improvement... I'd thought I'd post now while my initial thoughts are still fresh.
So far... I've got it set up and it looks good, there were a few pains getting going though: 1. in my setup, I only have a single DNS entry for the webserver. I'm using it in a corporate environment, and I don't want to set up a new box just for RB, so I thought I'd install it on the existing web server (which runs a few other development-related sites such as mantis). Unfortunately the installer assumes that it will be running as a vhost, and takes over the entire web on port 80. If this could be changed to a directory instead of a vhost, I think that would be a good improvement to make. Currently I have it running on a different port, as I cannot affect the other sites (and I'm not too hot on mod_python requirements) 2. When installing, the dependancy on PyLucene made me decide not to bother with search :) Would it be a good idea to try using Clucene instead as it might be easier to get installed, and possibly faster/ efficient to run? 3. When I installed it, I immediately had a 'taking a nap' error. Looking at the logs showed a problem with the python egg cache. Setting the environment variable inside the vhost directive fixed this, but it was an annoyance that it didn't work out of the box. Also, the "error message" could be worded better, 'taking a nap' suggests a delay, not a fatal error! 4. LDAP support. I access active directory from a linux box, no problem with that except that the corporate AD doesn't allow anonymous reads. Most other sites I use from my linux server (eg wikipedia, mantis) allow you to set a ldap proxy user to connect with. That user then attempts to search for the user specified and logs you in. I couldn't see any option for this in the web UI, is it supported? 5. As a guide, would it be possible to automatically generate review requests from a (in my case) subversion commit? Is there any way to generate a diff and post it to RB in a post-commit hook? For example, when committing in svn, I have a hook set up to post data to Mantis using curl if certain requirements are met, this allows me to automatically close bugs. It would be great if I could do something similar with RB. Anyway, I'm going to play some more, thanks for all your hard work. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To post to this group, send email to reviewboard@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
