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Reviews/GerritConnectorProposalDraft
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Mylyn Reviews Gerrit Connector
Background
Gerrit is a web based code review system, facilitating online code reviews for projects using the Git version control system. The Eclipse community and many other organizations are moving towards Git and Gerrit, which is the preferred code review solution in Git environments.
While the EGit project provides first class integration for Eclipse, there is no equivalent tooling for Gerrit. The increasing popularity of the EGit project has resulted in community requests to provide such an integration to leverage the full potential of Git-based code reviews from within the IDE.
Scope
The scope of this project is to provide a Gerrit connector for the Mylyn Reviews framework. The following features are planned:
- Integrate Gerrit reviews with the Mylyn Task List
- Provide a rich editor for reviews
- Support offline access
- Provide inline-commenting for source code reviews
- Provide change notifications
Description
The proposed project will be based on the Mylyn Reviews framework. The framework provides a common model for reviews and reusable UI components such as support for inline commenting.
The Gerrit connector is composed of a core and UI part.
Core: Provides the Gerrit specific data model which extends the model provided by the Mylyn Reviews framework. Additionally, the core provides network access functionality to Gerrit servers.
UI: Provides Gerrit specific UI integration, e.g. for managing Gerrit servers or creating queries for reviews.
Initial contribution
The initial contribution is provided by SonyEricsson and consists of a basic connector that integrates Gerrit with the Mylyn Task List.
Organization
The project is setup as a sub-sub project under the Mylyn Reviews project.
Initial committers
- Chris Aniszczyk (Redhat)
- Matthias Sohn (SAP)
- Steffen Pingel (Tasktop Technologies)
- Kilian Matt (INSO)
- Mario Bernhart (INSO)
Mentors
- Mik Kersten
- Chris Aniszczyk (Is it possible to be a committer and mentor on the same project?)
Interested parties
- Benjamin Muskalla (EclipseSource)
Community
We expect to extend the initial set of committers by actively supporting a developer community. We will make it easy for interested parties to take an active role in the project by making our planning and process transparent.
Tentative Plan
Presentation of a stable and useable initial version at EclipseCon 2011.