What you ask is somewhat beyond the realm of a "simple alias". However,
everything that you want (including closing issues) is accessible via the
API: https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/2.0/webapi/

-David



On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:52 AM James Blau <ja...@tresata.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I can't say I'm a happy user yet since I haven't yet figured out how to
> make a simple alias to do the few things I want (we use post-commit review
> in feature branches) on the command line (read: Vim):
>
> 1) Starting from a feature branch for which I've posted review requests,
> get the full list of comments and unresolved issues, as text from standard
> out.
> 2) Starting from just a branch as above and providing a file name, get the
> full list of comments and unresolved issues for that file, as text from
> standard out.
>
> Assume for the moment that this isn't an unhelpful deluge of information
> in my use case. This would go 95% of the way towards making me a very happy
> user by allowing me to set it up so that I can quickly bring up other
> people's relevant comments while editing in Vim.
>
> My dream features, that would take me to 110% satisfaction:
>
> 3) Get the output from (2) in the format of the original text file with
> the comments interspersed in the correct locations, delineated using
> something like Git merge markers. This would let me open the file and deal
> with the comments one by one, while seeing them in the right place --
> again, in my chosen editor, without opening a browser window, and without
> looking up manually in which review id the comments reside, etc. For long
> comment chains I could figure out folding, but this doesn't really happen
> to me. I could implement this myself if I can get the comments and issues
> along with the tagged line numbers.
> 4) It would be great to close issues individually, from Vim (or, again,
> whatever editor), as I fix them. If the ouput from (3) included an
> identifier for each issue, and if the API allowed one to close issues, this
> could easily become a single keypress while editing, rather than a trip to
> a new program.
>
> And of course ideally:
>
> 5) A proper Vim plugin to prevent me ever opening a browser window for
> Review Board. For this one, you're mostly off the hook of course; it's only
> your responsibility to make sure the API doesn't get in the way of a
> powerful plugin. That said, there aren't any maintained Vim plugins for RB,
> so I'm not sure that it is easy.
>
> I would love to figure this stuff out and try to offer you our
> endorsement/logo! Thanks for listening, and sorry if I have missed obvious
> solutions to the above...
>
> Cheers,
> James Blau
> tresata.com
> P.S. I don't speak for the whole company, the others I think are happy to
> use the web interface for all of this.
>
>
> On Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 8:30:24 PM UTC-4, Christian Hammond
> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Every so often, I like to poll the list and get a sense of who's using
> Review Board and how it's working out for you. It's been a while since I've
> last done this (I try not to make it a frequent thing).
>
> We have a Happy Users page (https://www.reviewboard.org/users/) where we
> list companies who are both happy with their experience with Review Board
> and are willing to let us list them publicly.
>
> This time around, we're hoping to get permission to show off some company
> logos, which may appear on the front page ofreviewboard.org. We'll be
> unveiling a whole new site design soon that will include some of these
> prominently, linking back to your company's site.
>
>
> So:
>
> 1) How's Review Board working out for you?
>
> 2) Can we list you on the site? If not, we'd still like to hear from you!
>
> 3) If we can list you, we'd love to include your logo. Who in your
> organization can we talk to about this?
>
> Feel free to reply privately or publicly! And thanks!
>
> Christian
>
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