Hello, The company I work for has expressed an interest in a maven reporting plugin that would generate a report showing the differences between two different SVN URLs. Indeed, we have a development lifecycle on SVN using a trunk that we branch for different releases and maintenance (using the maven release plugin). Hence, developers will often code on a branch or on the trunk and merge these changes to another location. I think there is nothing very much out of the ordinary there.
However, there's always the worry that discrepancies in the code appear, because of a user error in a merge, or just somebody forgetting to merge/commit (actually, it's quite often that people will merge a diff, but forget to commit the result). We also sometimes want to be sure that a piece of code in one branch is not replicated to the trunk and vice versa. As we have dozens of developers scattered over North America, Europe and Asia, my manager has expressed concerns about not being able to monitor code changes. Since we heavily use continuum and maven reports, he had the idea of a maven report that would show the differences between a branch and the trunk. This not being the priority of the company, this would be a 'on your spare time' task. I've put together a proof of concept of this reporting plugin : http://arnaud.dostes.com/svndiff-site and since this is done for my company but on my own time (and as a learning experience), I've decided to keep it open source. If there is an interest on this list for this plugin, I would very much like to have it in the codehaus sandbox. Thanks in advance for your time, Arnaud DOSTES --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
