Re: [boost] Library Review Tool (paging Jeff Garland) -- was : Re: [xint] Formal Review Result

Subject: Re: [boost] Library Review Tool (paging Jeff Garland) -- was : Re: [xint] Formal Review Result
From: Gordon Woodhull (gordon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-04 03:24:19

On May 4, 2011, at 2:17 AM, Michael Caisse wrote:
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> Some time ago we all had a discussion like this and I believe Jeff Garland had mentioned Smart Bear's CodeCollaborator to aid in Boost Reviews. I used their product for a short time and was just taking a look at their web site again:
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> <http://smartbear.com/products/development-tools/code-review/features/>
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> I know there are other tools also (like Crucible) but CodeCollaborator also allows reviews of html docs which will obviously be handy. IIRC Jeff had mentioned that SmartBear might be willing to provide licensing for Boost (or opensource .. it is all fuzzy). I believe Jeff was in contact with them... but my memory might be failing (Jeff?? Are you there?)
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> I would be willing to investigate this path further, including the administration and such of the tool, if it is of interest to the community.

Looks really cool.  I don't think it would replace reviews on the list, but it would make the code and documentation review much, much nicer.

Don't think it'll really help the part that review managers are involved with either - again if anyone has seen tools for looking at hundreds of messages in their threads and how they quote from each other, please let me know.