[Kde-scm-interest] Alternate Git options

[Kevin Ottens]

On Wednesday 12 May 2010 11:34:17 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On 05/12/2010 03:54 AM, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > I didn't get to use it in real life yet, but I've been monitoring its
> > progresses for a little while now. Although it looks like Redmine at
> > first, they're doing really interesting stuff that Redmine doesn't
> > cover.
> 
> Can you give some details of this? I browsed around for a bit and it
> looks like it has pretty much the same features with a different
> interface. Other than the Agile plugin.

Sorry for being unclear: Yes, I was mainly thinking about this plugin. It's 
the main differentiation factor at that point. As the attempts at something 
similar on the Redmine side are rather unsatisfying so far.

> It sounds from the front page like it has some nice features Redmine
> doesn't have but they don't seem to pan out. For instance, "Code Review"
> just means "repository browsing", not actual reviews.

IIRC you can annotate, but that'd still be after the facts (has to be in a 
repo monitored by the app) and AFAIK doesn't help for the merge itself. As I 
said, gitorious will be hard to beat there. Except if someone turns up to 
implement just that as a plugin (very unlikely though).
 
> > OTOH it's younger than Redmine so has less plugins available. And, of
> > course, it would require proper testing to find out if it's really
> > suitable for us (in particular regarding how to handle our code
> > reviews... I'm afraid it'll be hard to beat gitorious' MRs there).
> 
> Also, it seems to be the work of one guy...last two commits one and two
> months ago. Nothing wrong with this per se, just makes sense to see how
> likely it is to continue. (Redmine is far more active here -- they only
> seem to have two committers to the main repository but they merge a lot
> of patches in from outside.)

True enough. That's one of my worries with Retrospectiva as well.

> OTOH, it seems to be supported by the commercial entity where the guy
> works. OTOOH this also means that its direction may be driven by that
> singular entity, and if they go out of business, development may mostly
> stop, unless the various people using it rally and form a project.

Yup. Worth contacting the guy to know more about the actual link between the 
Retrospectiva project and where he works I guess.

My 0.01€ (yeah, adding less value now :) ).

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud patron of KDE, http://www.kdab.com
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