On 06/19/2014 05:37 PM, Sohail Somani wrote:

General question: are there any other sites/applications of this kind out there? It seems to be a generally useful thing to make it easier to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_for_code_review

Sohail Somani-2 wrote

Hi Robert,

First of all, great idea and thanks for doing it. The concepts are solid and the site will be a great help for users and authors alike.

It appeared that it was not possible to add any reviews anonymously. Is this by design?

yep - mainly spam prevention - but anonymous posting encourages trolls in my opinion.

Does one have to register? It would be clearer if the page was unavailable or that there was a placeholder requiring the visitor to register before they could view the "submit review" page[1].

I closed the page after writing a review and being unable to submit because it seemed the site was buggy and so I set out to submit a report, but maybe the mistake was that I was supposed to have registered first. It was unclear.

OK - will fix

Also, if you ever do consider writing another version,

lol - you've got to be kidding!

consider Django because the admin interface[2] could allow you to generate a nice interface without futzing around with plugins and can also help you create a more maintainable site because it forces you into a structure. I'd be happy to help if you choose to go this way.

I'd love to see someone take responsibility for this - are you interested?

General question: are there any other sites/applications of this kind out there? It seems to be a generally useful thing to make it easier to solicit user contributions for open source software. The closest would be a fork+pull request in Github that people can comment on. Maybe that's enough, I don't know.

The only reason I did this was because I couldn't find it anywhere else. There are pieces of this all over the place sourceforge github lots of others But nowhere did I find all the functionality in one place. And another problem is that lots of library authors already have their own choice for all of the things. rypll was interesting in that it desired to provide a unitified system for library development. I was never sold on the idea that one could be successful by telling library authors what to do. (I can get barely get anyone to listen to my suggestions). And besides - it's a huge amount of work do something of this scale. So my approach was to make a "facade" which would: a) permit an author to use what he already has for repository, issues, testing dashboard, etc. This would make it easier to make a submission. So far this has worked out well. There are already multiple kinds of repositories and test dashboards being used by different authors. Apparenly they had no problem making a submission. The main obstacle for a submission is that I require browsable html documentation. This seems to be huge hurdle for many authors - we're all better off for it. b) Not have to do any of the facilities myself since it's pointless to replicate other's work - and let them maintain it. If they do a bad job - then authors will switch and just update their links. You can see the whole point is for me to avoid doing any actual work - which of course is why I'm a software developer in the first place. c) present an unified interface to a variety of underlying tool implementations. The user interface "facade". This is to make it easy to brows documentation, code and issues etc in a more or less unified way. Basically I want a user to be able to evaluate 10 libraries in an hour so he can accept one for his own application. Currently this takes a couple of days to do. ) I did make special component just for boost - the review system. As you can see from the "about" section of the website - I looked at lots of alternatives. I stopped when I found wordpress and am mostly pleased with the results. Its a pain to use and has some quirks - but the 11 plugins are code that I use but didn't have to write. The admin and stats page all come for free. I'm very skeptical that another tool would have done a better job. But of course I didn't try every tool - I just stopped when I found the first one that could actually do the job. Robert Ramey -- View this message in context: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/blincubator-comments-tp4664327p4664334.ht... Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.