David, Neil, If the RB team were to release the TFS server portion as part of the core release, I would be glad to contribute as well.
Please try to understand from my team's perspective. We have not been able to get TFS 2015 to work with RB. As an example, as part of our evaluation, we tried to use RB and RBTools with TFS and the client tools threw exceptions. I did some poking around and found it was due to an entire method missing from the source code! (I think it was fixed in the last official update). It is hard to 'sell' this to my company if it doesn't work due to missing source code. Please don't take this as being overly critical as I am not trying to be. Just try to understand from the perspective of other TFS users. I think if it was open, I would have tried to fix it and contribute the fix back. I have had outstanding success with RB in the past and would really like to help get it to work well with TFS. From the sounds of it, I think other people would be willing to contribute as well but I would be unsuccessful in trying to sell this to management in the current form. Thanks, Geoff We have tried to get RB to work with TFS 2015 and it doesn't seem to work right. Do you recommend me to try anything? On Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 4:50:49 PM UTC-5, David Trowbridge wrote: > > Geoff, > > On the server, TFS 2013 and newer is supported. Running the Review Board > server on Linux is fine. > > One new wrinkle on the client side is that the RBTools interface won't > work with workspaces created by the new VS 2017 release, because Microsoft > broke compatibility with their own SDK (we're looking into options). If > you're using older VS releases, they should work fine. > > As far as making TFS support part of the core release, it's possible that > will happen eventually but not soon. We've found that commercial version > control systems (like TFS or ClearCase) attract a lot *less* open-source > contribution than other systems, probably because very few open-source > developers use them. Right now the only way that it's commercially viable > for us to support it is to have it as part of Power Pack. > > -David > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 9:49 AM Geoffrey <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have used Review Board at my previous employer with great success and >> it was really awesome. On that team, we used RB in the typical fashion >> with git. The RB server was on linux and the clients were all (mostly) >> linux. >> >> In my new role, I am experimenting with RB with a TFS/TFVC repository and >> am running into a lot of issues. I setup an Ubuntu server and installed >> the powerpack extension. For now, it is just me experimenting so the 2 >> user limit is not an issue. My client machine uses windows. >> >> This leads me to a few questions: >> >> - Does RB/powerpack support TFS 2015 or 2017? (some of the documents >> I read were a little stale and out of sync with release notes) >> - Does the powerpack extension work correctly with TFS while RB >> server is hosted on linux? >> - Is there any intention of ever making TFS part of the free/open >> source version? >> - I believe there would be more users and more contribution to >> make TFS stable. >> - It would probably lead to more users thus more potential >> purchasers of the other powerpack features :) >> - It is hard to 'sell' the idea to management when it isn't stable >> and/or requires much effort to configure. More contribution will fix >> this. If it was purely open source and free, it would be much easier >> to >> justify spending time. >> >> >> ReviewBoard is an awesome tool and I think there is a huge world of TFS >> users out there who would enjoy it as well if it was easier to use for this >> specific case. >> >> Thanks, >> Geoff >> >> -- >> Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: >> https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ >> Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: >> https://rbcommons.com/ >> Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "reviewboard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
