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Greetings Dash developers,
Gabe and I have started work on a next generation version of the
Automated IP Log tool [1]. The new version is intended to ship as an
Eclipse plug-in.
With the new version running inside the Eclipse workbench, the developer
can decide where to store the log file: either somewhere on the project
website or elsewhere in CVS. The IP Log tool itself doesn't have to be
concerned with the issues of security (who gets to work on the log) as
that will be taken care of by the write access to CVS/SVN. By
encouraging (i.e. forcing) the user to explicitly store the IP Log, we
should mitigate the problem of IP Logs that go missing after approval.
It will also give us the ability to truly lock down an IP Log (the
automated IP Log always reflects the current reality which changes with
time).
The new version changes things around a bit. We have set up a RESTful
web service that provides the information required to build the log that
we have in the various databases at Eclipse. We use this information to
initially populate the log. Once populated, the user has the ability to
tweak every part of the data. The can add new lines, remove them. Using
the same information from those various databases at Eclipse, we can
"diff" the captured log against the data we have. This will assist the
IP Team in determining how different the log is from the data we have
captured. It will also allow the developer to generate the next version
of their IP Log from a previous version.
We have implemented a significant part of it, but there is still much
work to do. Currently, we are making heavy use of EMF to generate the
model and entire user interface. We anticipate augmenting the
EMF-generated user interface with custom elements to streamline the user
experience.
We'd like to bring it to Dash as a subproject where others can
potentially participate. I'd like to start assembling the project
proposal and invite your participation and questions.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Wayne
[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/Automatic_IP_Log
