Bonsai

Bonsai Development

Continued development of bonsai is being done by bear, timelyx and micklweiss.

Objectives

• As our main objective is we would like to get bonsai working with svn.
• We would like to make the code generic enough so others can write support for their favorite VCS

Meeting notes from Meeting on IRC

• we will use landfill to host the development
• Mick should get his own account on landfill (he is using timeless's atm)
• a functional test suite will be made for bonsai/cvs (this will be reused for bonsai/svn). this will most likely be done with selenium/selenium ide
• source will be on bear's svn server
• <timelyx> but i'm not sure how much time i have to do commits, i'm hoping to mostly advise

things to be answered

• since development started, has bonsai changed any?

  - yes, but the basic svn functions are ok - the hooks into the main code may need to be reworked

• what works

  - all of the basic svn -> bonsai change code and all of the basic queries

• what doesn't

  - the fancier query types and parts of bonsai not related getting changes from svn to bonsai

• is there anything where bear is "stuck"?

  - untangling the perl cgi from the cvs code so more than one scm can be hooked in

• should we go from the ground up (like bear has started) -- or does it make sense to refactor piece by piece

  - I would refactor piece by piece as we need to see what current bonsai code is really broken when you try to hook in svn.

• do we use mkanat's VCS module?

  - if it provides a consistent API to the VCS's then for sure - getting that into perl cgi was the part that stalled me

tests that need to be written

conceptually, you have:

• create file
• commit to 1 file
• commit with no comment
• commit with evil comment
• copy file
• delete 1 file
• commit 1 file in each of 2 directories
• create branch
• create tag
• delete branch
• delete version
• move tag
• delete tag
• commit by each of two users at the same time with the same comment on 2 different branches of the same file

Code

• http://mxr-test.landfill.bugzilla.org/bonsai-svn/source/webtools/trunk/