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Hi folks, This is really a request to find out a level of interest on the Eclipse CVS developer team. Myself and John C. Landers have built a plugin to view the log entries for a CVS repository (http://cvschangelog.sourceforge.net/). However, neither of us been actively working on this project for the past six months. The plugin is still getting about 200 downloads a month, and we generally receive positive feedback. On one hand, I hate to see such a good idea go to waste. But OTOH I am abhorrent to the idea of "passing the buck along" and dumping work onto someone else. So I just wanted to ask around if other developers have interest on this idea? One big problem is that some big parts of the plugin were poorly designed, and they probably need to be rewritten from scratch. (Yes, I'm embarressed to admit that. But it was our first Eclipse plugin). It's been a while since I've looked at the code myself. But the last time I did, I was trying to add support for CVS tags and branches. And the deficiencies in the design made this insurmountable. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. --Michael
Michael, I'm not sure what you are requesting here. Are you asking if I want to take your plugin and incorporate it into the Eclipse CVS plugin? The answer to that question is no. I do think it is a really good idea but we (the Team/CVS Team) don't have the manpower to do any work on this (and it sounds like there is a lot of work to do). What I am hoping to do in the near future is set up a page on "Contributing to Eclipse CVS". I will be sure to include a link to your work so that other will be aware of it and try it out. They can then decide if they want to contribute to it. I'm marking this as 3.1. M7 as a reminder to do the above.
Hi Michael, Thanks for writing back to me. That sounds like a good way to proceed. It's a shame that I'm going to continue to get emails that say "this doesn't work for CVS branches" or "this doesn't work for CVS tags". Oh well. If they feel that strongly about it, they should redesign it (because it needs that). Cheers, --Michael
Icreated a community page and added a link to your plugin: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-vcm- home/docs/online/html-cvs/cvs-community.html
Hi Michael, Thank you for arranging that. This happens to coincide with the end of my academic semester, and I am planning on revisiting the CVSChangeLog plugin. I'm going to redesign it and correctly this time. I hope to have some sort of high-level document finished by the end of this week with the new goals and the new architecture. I hope you don't mind if I send you a copy, for a quick lookover and tell me if I'm doing something stupid.
Sure, I'll have a look.
*** Bug 103224 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
