Hi,
I quickly read through the website to get a feel for the product and the process it tries to support. From what I see it's very nice tool to do a CMM level 2 development, even distinuted geographically. Still I don't think it solves a real problem in Wireshark development. We're not looking for review sessions, code metrics, discussion/defact tracking. We're looking for eyeballs, connected to brains spending cycles processing all "The good, the bad and the ugly code". Since these have to be sourced from a limited supply, even this tool won't speed things up. Mind you, there are good things in this tool, which we cover in a different way, like Bugzilla and this mailinglist.
Ok, I'm back to sleep now :)
Thanks, Jaap
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I
recently came across a lightweight peer code review tool called Code Collaborator
from SmartBear Software. See http://smartbear.com/codecollab.php.
While
the product seems like it would be very beneficial, the cost of the tool will
almost certainly prohibit its use here at my company. However, while reading
this page, http://smartbear.com/codecollab-buy.php,
something caught my eye:
FREE for Open Source Projects!
All Smart Bear products are FREE for open
source projects! Contact us for details.
So,
I don’t know if this tool interests the Wireshark community or not.
Surely it would require some learning curve, but I think it might have the
potential to help core developers more effectively review submitted
patches. I don’t know how many other open source projects are using
it, if any, nor how successful they might be in using it. Anyway, I’m
just passing on the information in case there’s any interest.
-
Chris
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