Subversion Repositories DevTools

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Version 1.9.4

* Emit a javascript warning if the external javascript files could

  not be loaded.  This usually occurs due to apache misconfiguration.

* Allow subversion repositories that communicate using the Subversion

  protocol to be specified in @valid_repositories as

  'svn://my.subversion.server/repos/product/trunk' rather than

  'svn:svn://my.subversion.server/repos/product/trunk'.

* Support subversion diff files which contain "Copied:" entries.

* Improved patch file parsing for handling binary file changes.

* Ensure emails sent contain the header "MIME-Version: 1.0" for

  RFC2045 conformance.  Submitted by Vadim Zeitlin

  <vadz@users.sourceforge.net>.

* CSS cleanups from Kannan Goundan <cakoose@users.sourceforge.net>.

* Bottom coloured row on topic list screen didn't extend across full

  width of browser window if bug-tracking or custom comment metrics

  were defined.  This has now been fixed.

* Place a clear divider between comment blocks on the view topic

  comments screen, as suggested by Nikita V. Borodikhin

  <eliterr@users.sourceforge.net> to minimise confusion.

* The topic comments tab count would incorrectly display the number

  of comment threads rather than the number of comments, when viewing

  the topic text.  This has now been fixed.

* Handle Subversion files which contain @ in the filename.

* Codestriker now behaves correctly under mod_perl when retrieving

  data externally from an SCM system, such as when the Parallel link

  is clicked, or when a topic is created directly from the SCM.

* Creating Subversion topics directly from the SCM now works correctly

  in non-English locales.

* When calculating metrics, make sure email addresses are handled in

  a case-insensitive manner.  Also remove trailing/leading whitespace

  from the addresses.

* Handle topic text that starts with the UTF-8 BOM.

* Workaround for invalid diff files generated by Subversion in a Chinese

  locale.  See http://marc.info/?l=subversion-users&m=118725115412403&w=3

  for more information.

* Handle the different text types that may be present in a Perforce diff.

  Submitted by Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>.

* Defined the "noconnection" option for $bug_db in codestriker.conf

  so that it is possible to define what bug IDs are associated with

  a topic, without updating an actual bug database when the topic

  is created/closed.  If $bugtracker is defined in codestriker.conf,

  then links will be created on the topic properties screen to the

  associated bug records.  Submitted by Russell Cattelan

  <cattelan@thebarn.com>.

* Handle ClearCase diffs which contain "Directories are identical"

  lines in them.  Submitted by Steve Kinsman

  <skinsman@users.sourceforge.net>.

* Support for using the ClearCase dynamic view under Windows.	

  Submitted by Steve Kinsman <skinsman@users.sourceforge.net>.

Version 1.9.3

* The project list screen now displays for each project, the total

  number of open topics, and the total number of topics.  Clicking on

  the count will go to the topic list screen with the relevant topics

  displayed.

* Modified the VSS repository handler so that topics can be created

  by either entering in labels or version numbers in the start and

  end tag fields when creating a topic.  Previously, only labels

  were supported.

* The uri filter in the Template Toolkit changed its behaviour in 2.16,

  which was responsible for generating invalid links.  This has now

  been fixed.

* Better handling of Subversion diffs which were generated on

  non-English systems.

Version 1.9.2

* Codestriker now works with UTF-8 text, to support unicode character

  input for topic titles, descriptions, comment text, and project

  names and descriptions.  This required making Perl 5.8 as a

  pre-requisite, as Perl 5.6 doesn't cut the mustard for unicode

  processing.

* Created a new optional configuration parameter $repository_name_map

  in codestriker.conf.  This allows for a user-defined repository name

  to be displayed in the codestriker UI, rather than the full

  repository URL.  This can be useful for hiding potentially sensitive

  username/password information that might be a part of the repository

  URL.  See the codestriker.conf file for more information.

  Submitted by Edwin Fine <edwin.m.fine@verizon.com>.

* New repository module for linking to ClearCase dynamic views.  See

  the configuration file and/or manual for example configurations.

  Submitted by Avinandan Sengupta <avinandan.sengupta@gmail.com>.

* Modified the way Perforce retrieves files from the depot, as servers

  set with a security level of 2 or above were not receiving password

  information.  This has been addressed by modifying the command line

  to explictly pass in the password rather than the client workspace

  name, which is ignored for these security levels.  The repository

  configuration for Perforce has also been changed to use the password

  in place of the client workspace name.  Perforce users should update

  their configuration files appropriately.  Submitted by 

  J Dickon Glanville <jdglanville@users.sourceforge.net>.

* Update CVS diff parser to handle rdiffs which have new/removed files

  in them.

* Creating a topic with an invalid bug ID is now shown as an error to

  the user on the create topic screen.

* If there was an error creating a topic, the selected project name

  was not retained when the create topic screen was redisplayed.  This

  has now been fixed.

  Submitted by Edwin Fine <edwin.m.fine@verizon.com>.

* If there is a problem when a comment is created, the error message

  will correctly display in the AJAX'ed window.  An example here is if

  $mailhost is incorrectly configured.

* If there is an email problem while creating a topic, the error

  message is now correctly displayed to the end-user.

* Fixed problem with Subversion repositories on Win32, where

  Codestriker was unable to launch the svn program.

* Comments containing '+' characters were changed into ' ' characters

  when posted via AJAX.  Other potentially damaging characters are now

  escaped.

* Comments with '\' characters are now displayed correctly in all

  cases within the tooltip window.

* Temporary files were not being deleted within the

  CodestrikerClient.pm module (used for auto-creation of topics on CVS

  commits).  Reported by Martin Apel <Martin.Apel@softlab.de>.

* Added support for parsing diffs generated using Subversion's svnlook

  program.

* Matching of CVS repository paths when parsing topic text is now

  case insensitive to account for the different casing returned by the

  Window clients: Cygwin and CvsNT.

* Defining new entries in $comment_state_metrics in codestriker.conf

  could not be used for existing topics.  This has now been fixed.

* Support for sending email via SMTP authentication, via the optional

  $mailuser and $mailpasswd configuration parameters in

  codestriker.conf.  Contributed by "Hertz Wang" <wanghz@neusoft.com>.

* The ClearCase Snapshot repository was not using the $tmpdir setting

  in codestriker.conf if it was set when creating temporary files.

  This has now been fixed.

  Contributed by "John Farrelly (AT/LMI)" <john.farrelly@ericsson.com>.

* Make sure the diffs in the topic are presented in a sorted order by

  filename.  Some SCMs create topic texts in a "semi-sorted" order,

  such as Subversion.

  Contributed by "Vladimir Vysotsky" <vvysotsky@avistar.com>.

* Closed topics could still have comments added to them, by hovering

  over an existing comment in the topic text view, and then clicking

  the "Add Comment" link in the tooltip window.  This link has now

  been removed if the topic is closed.

  Contributed by ed.torbett@simulation-systems.co.uk.

* Improved memory usage when integrated with very large LXR databases.

  Contributed by Patrick Diamond <patrick_diamond@mailc.net>.

* Newer versions of the Subversion client (1.3.2) were returning

  warning text that was not parsed correctly.  This has now been

  fixed.  Contributed by Vladimir Sizikov <vsizikov@gmail.com>.

* Make sure the generated Template Toolkit files are stored in 

  the web server's temporary directory, or $Codestriker::tmpdir if

  that is defined.  Previously, the temporary files were being stored

  in sub-directories of cgi-bin.

Version 1.9.1

* Correct problem introduced in 1.9.0 release where the email address

  field in the add comment tooltip was not being stored correctly in

  the Codestriker cookie.  For reviewers who have never created a

  Codestriker topic, the email field not remember the previous value.

  This has now been corrected.

* When adding a comment via a link from an email, the confirmation

  screen now contains links to the topic text and topic comments, for

  convenience.

Version 1.9.0

* Now using overlib javascript library

  (http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib) for formatted "tooltips".  When

  the mouse hovers over a line where a comment has been made, a

  formatted "tooltip" window appears, which contains the comment text

  formatted appropriately, with author and date header information

  bolded.  The tooltip is not removed until the mouse is moved off the

  line.  Help text on the create topic and search screens have been

  modified to use this tooltip library as well as opposed to

  javascript alert windows.

* Comments are now added view an overlib tooltip window, rather than

  using a separate browser window.  This speeds up the reviewing

  process and keeps the reviewer focussed on a single browser window.

* It is now possible to create a comment associated with a specific

  file, or the topic itself, rather than being associated with a

  specific line.  This allows reviewers to create file-level or

  topic-level comments.

* There are patches available for Bugzilla 2.16 and Bugzilla 2.18 in

  the bin subdirectory, where the view bug screen is modified to

  include the "Create a New Codestriker Topic" and "View All" links

  directly under the "Create a New Attachment" and "View All" links.

  When a new topic is created via this link, the topic title will be

  set initially to the bug title, and the bug id field will be set to

  the id of the bug record.  Before applying the patch, the

  codestriker_url variable must be set to the URL of your Codestriker

  deployment.

* Extra options are now available in the codestriker.conf file in

  regards to when emails are sent out.  It is now possible to control

  whether emails are sent to the topic author and/or the comment

  author when new comments are created.  Also, there is an option

  which determines if all reviewers are notified if the topic's state

  is changed.  This is all controlled by the $email_send_options

  configuration item.  From Jason Remillard.

* Added RSS support, so that the topic list screen now has an

  equivalent RSS view.  From Jason Remillard.

* Optimised database connection code, from Jason Remillard.

* Added a "add other reviewers" link next to the Cc: field in the "add

  comment" screen.  This allows the comment author to easily Cc all

  the other reviewers of the topic, for important comments that needs

  to be sent to all reviewers.

* When creating new topics linked to Bugzilla, also include the topic

  description field in the Bugzilla comment.

* Searching on the bugid and cc fields was not working correctly.

  This has now been fixed.

* On UNIX platforms, missing modules can be fetched and installed

  automatically using the CPAN module, if required.

* Subversion 1.1 has changed it diff format slightly.  Parser as been

  updated, as reported by Martin Apel <Martin.Apel@softlab.de>.

* Added integration support for Flyspray bug-tracking system.  From

  Martin Apel.

* Fixed text message written to bug-tracking system where the topic

  author was used instead of the actual user, when the topic state was

  changed.  Found by Jason Remilliard.

* Make sure for Win32 deployments, that the PATH environment

  variable is not zapped.  This created issues when launching external

  programs, such as an SCM program.  Since taint-mode is broken under

  Win32, this isn't an issue.  Found by Michael R. Brumm

  <michaelbrumm@users.sourceforge.net>.

* Fixed message "Character in 'c' format wrapped in pack at

  ... Response.pm", as reported by an anonymous user.

* 'Readonly' topic states are now specified in codestriker.conf.  For

  installations that add their own topic states, this allows them to

  have more than one state in which topics can be edited.

  From Dan Prince <dan.prince@alumni.carleton.edu>.

* Subversion topic creation fixes from Michael R. Brumm

  <michaelbrumm@users.sourceforge.net>.  If module refers to file,

  path workaround duplicates the file's name at the end of the file

  path in the filename field.  Starting and ending slash not removed

  from module name during getDiff.

* Modified the Perforce parser to handle file-types that return

  "xbinary".  Also handled Perforce diffs which contain unidiff style

  '---' and '+++' header lines.  From Hope Duryea <hope_duryea@yahoo.com>.

* Filenames ending in ++, for example, filename.c++ could not be

  loaded into the system, due to a bug introduced in 1.8.5.

* Added $svn configuration variable to codestriker.conf, so that the

  path to the subversion executable can be specified, which is often a

  requirement for Win32 systems.

Version 1.8.5

* Complete support for VSS repositories.  Topics linked to a VSS

  repository can now be created by either specifying labels with the

  VSS directory of interest for code already committed in the

  repository, or pre-commit reviews can be done by generating diff

  text with the ssdiff.pl script in the Codestriker bin directory.

* Modified log_accum.pl so that deleted files are also included in the

  topic.

* On the topic list screen, there is a new button "Obsolete Topics",

  which allows you to create a new topic which superseeds the selected

  topics.  The obsoleted topics will be changed to state "Obsoleted"

  and will become read-only.  Note the @topic_states configuration

  variable in codestriker.conf needs to be modified to include the new

  'Obsoleted' state to enable this.  The view topic screens have been

  modified to include links if the topic being viewed has been

  obsoleted or superseeds other topics.  A single topic can be

  obsoleted from the view topic properties page, by selecting the

  'Obsoleted' state.

* The $allow_delete config variable has been removed.  If topic

  deletion is to be enabled, the 'Deleted' state needs to be added to

  the @topic_states configuration variable in codestriker.conf.

* Added new configuration variable @Codestriker::exclude_file_types

  which contains a list of filename extensions which Codestriker will

  ignore when creating topics.  These generally include those

  extensions which are binary, or of not any interest.  Contributed by

  Dave Clendenan <dave.clendenan@polycom.com>.

* Added a checkbox "Default to HEAD" on the create topic screen which

  is used for topics based off tags.  If this checkbox is enabled, the

  '-f' flag is passed to CVS repositories when executing the 'cvs

  rdiff' command.  This has the effect of retrieving a file's contents

  from revision HEAD if it is not present for the specified tag value.

  This option currently has no effect for other repository types at

  this stage.  Contributed by Dave Clendenan.

* Minor fix for handing CVS rdiff text which end in a binary entry.

  Problem found by Dave Clendenan.

* Shorten the URLs sent in the email messages.

* Minor fix where " characters would not render correctly in the

  status bar or in a tool-tip when hovering over a commented line in

  the view topic window.

  The following changes are from Jason Remillard:

* Fixed a security problem with the repository not being checked

  against the actual configured list. A user could send in any well

  formed repository string and Codestriker would just take it, even if

  it was not configured.

* Fixed a bug preventing create topic from working when the user had

  just one repository working. The cookie was overriding it because it

  was missing from the html code.

* Subversion repositories can now be configured with a username and

  password in the configuration file if authentication is required.

  Any errors from accessing subversion are written to STDERR.

Version 1.8.4

* The topic properties page now displays the start tag, end tag and

  module parameters if they were used when the topic was created.

  Contribution by Robert Hudson <codestriker@go2town.co.uk>.

* The repository property has been changed to be a read-only property

  in the topic properties page, from Robert Hudson.

* The repository selection drop-down is only selected if there is more

  than one repository configured in the system, from Robert Hudson.

* If a topic is not in open state, then the "topic information" and

  "topic comments" pages are modified to readonly, and adding new

  comments is disabled.  From Robert Hudson.

* In the table of contents, display the total number of lines added

  and removed for each file.  This gives the reviewer a quick idea

  where the major changes in the review are.  From Robert Hudson.

* There is a new configuration option @project_states which controls

  whether a project can have its state changed to 'Closed',

  which prevents new topics being created within it, and the state

  'Deleted', which will delete the project and all its member topics.

  Both of these new states are optional, and are not available by

  default.  From Robert Hudson.

* When sending emails involving more than one CC recipient, the email

  sending may fail because a space wasn't put after each comma.

* Created the CodestrikerClient module in bin which can create a

  new topic non-interactively.  The intention is for this module to be

  used from scripts that need to create new topics, for example, from

  a CVS post-commit script.

* Modified custom CVS post-commit scripts so that a Codestriker topic

  is created for each CVS commit, along with a sent email.  The

  commit_prep.pl and log_accum.pl are located in the bin directory,

  and need to be copied into your CVSROOT area, with a line like the

  following in your commitinfo file:

  DEFAULT $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commit_prep.pl -r

  and a line like the following in your loginfo file:

  DEFAULT $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/log_accum.pl %s

  The log_accum.pl file needs to have some configuration variables set

  at the start of the script to reflect your site.

  Note the first line of the log message will be used as the topic

  title.  The entire log message is used as the topic description.

  Any strings of the form "Bug nnn" in the log message will be taken

  as a reference to a bug id, and will be used in the topic's bugid

  field.

* Added an optional show_on_mainpage attribute to the comment metrics

  configuration, which specifies which comment metric counts will

  appear on the topic list page.  From Jason Remillard.

* Reviewers who haven't viewed a topic will have their names

  surrounded by parenthesis in the topic list page.  From Jason

  Remillard.

* Fixed a number of taint-mode problems when using Perl 5.8.

* Fixed the "Attempt to bless into a reference" error when using

  Bugzilla integration and Perl 5.8.

* Migrated the MySQL datetime type from TIMESTAMP to DATETIME, as it

  should have always been.  From Jason Remillard.

Version 1.8.3

* It is now possible to specify multiple metrics associated with a

  comment "thread".  In previous versions of Codestriker, there was a

  configuration variable called @comment_states which had the default

  values of "Submitted", "Invalid", or "Completed".  These states

  still exist, but under the metric name "Status" by default.

  Some other example configurations are illustrated in the config

  file.  For example "Level", "Mode" and "Type" metrics.  These values

  are then accumulated in the "Topic Information" tab, along with all

  the other topic metrics.

  Apart from the add/edit comment screen, the topic comments screen

  allows you to modify any metric associated with any comment thread,

  via a series of dropdown form elements.

* It is now possible in the create topic screen to only specify a

  single tag and a module name in order to create a new topic, rather

  than both the start and end tags, with the module name.  The effect

  of a single tag is to create a topic with the full contents of all

  tagged files in the specified module.

* In the "Topic Properties" screen, if the Bug IDs field is being

  displayed, and $Codestriker::bugtracker is defined, then after this

  field will be a number of hyperlinks to the associated bug tracking

  records.

* Added the link "List open topics in project" to all the view topic

  screens for user convenience on large multi-project deployments.

* Refactored CvsPserver and CvsLocal into a single object, Cvs.

* It is now possible to specify CVS repositories using the :ext access

  method with ssh, providing that the user running the Codestriker web

  application can ssh into the specified host without requiring a

  password (ie setting up an authorized_keys file on the destination

  host).  The Codestriker configuration file has an example :ext

  repository, and requires the path to ssh to be specified in the $ssh

  setting.

* Fixed bug where a comment with a " character in it would cause

  Javascript errors with IE on the view topic page.

* In the add comment window, clicking on the "increase context" or

  "decrease context" would erase any text which had been written.

  This has now been fixed by Kannan Goundan.

* Increasing/decreasing the context from the add comment window would

  not focus the main browser window to the exact line the comment was

  made from, after the comment has been submitted.  This has now been

  fixed.

* Committed in a whole heap of test scripts from Jason Remillard

  which are located in the test/ subdirectory.

* The clearcase diff parser can now handle diffs which describe chunk

  movements such as:

  -----[deleted/moved 40 after 44 (now at 152)]----- 

  -----[deleted/moved 42-43 after 44 (now at 154-155)]----- 

  -----[after 135 inserted/moved 152 (was at 40)]-----

  -----[after 135 inserted/moved 154-155 (was at 42-43)]-----

* Perforce integration has been improved to work with older versions

  of p4.

* The subversion diff parser can now handle diffs which contain

  property set changes.

* Make sure topics are linked to the default hidden project when

  $allow_projects is set to 0.  This allows the "topic properties"

  screen to work correctly.

Version 1.8.2

* Codestriker now has the ability to view a specific file at a time in

  the view topic screen, with previous/next file links.  The old

  behaviour of viewing the entire topic text in one page is still the

  default behaviour.  The default behaviour can be changed by setting

  the $default_file_to_view variable in the configuration file.  Note

  there are now links on the view topic screen so the user can choose

  dynamically which viewing mode they would prefer to use.

  Contribution by Oliver Lohmann <oliver_lohmann@gmx.de>.

* Codestriker can now sort by the column headers in the topic list

  view, from Jason Remillard.

* It is now possible to create Subversion topics by entering values

  in the START_TAG, END_TAG and MODULE fields on the create topic

  page, from Jason Remillard.  See the manual for more details.

* In addition to the existing Subversion HTTP server support, it is

  now possible to integrate with a native Subversion server as well,

  from Jason Remillard.

* Codestriker can now parse basic diff files (non unidiff and context

  diff), and also ClearCase serial diffs.

* A ClearCase repository object has been written by Kannan Goundan

  which works off a snapshot view.  With the ClearCase serial diff

  parser mentioned in the previous item, this provides a

  fully-functional ClearCase code-reviewing solution.

* Topic property change emails didn't have the "References" and

  "In-Reply-To" mail headers set correctly, so that those emails

  weren't grouped into the same "topic" email thread.

* The view topic display has been improved for diffs which contain new

  files.  Now the entire width of the screen is used when displaying

  new files.  Fix from Jason Remillard and Kannan Goundan.

* The email taint/input checking code has been tightened, from Jason

  Remillard.

* Improved the input checking code on the topic properties page.

* The CVS pserver repository specification has been expanded so that

  it can accept extra optional arguments, such as:

  :pserver;proxy=abc.com;proxyport=8080:user:pwd@cvs.dev.net

* Modified Codestriker CSS so that monospace fonts use "monospace"

  rather than Courier so the user's settings in the browser are

  honoured, from Kannan Goundan <kannan@letterboxes.org>.

* Standardised all inline help links to (?) rather than

  (What's this?).

* Make sure filenames are properly quoted in the CVS repository

  methods, so that filenames with spaces are handled correctly.

Version 1.8.1

* Modified the filename field in the topicfile table back to 255

  characters instead of 1024 so that MySQL doesn't complain.

* Added some missing imports which caused compilation errors for

  Perl 5.8.3 on Solaris when checksetup.pl was run.

* Made checksetup.pl more graceful when DBI.pm is not installed, and

  it is checking what other database modules are required.

* Fixed bug found by Philipp Frauenfelder where LXR integration was

  not working when the LXR database was password protected.

The following changes were from Jason Remillard:

* Fixed bug in the metric support has been fixed, which prevented the

  metric data from being usable if more than one reviewer was present.

* Fixed bug where the wrong Codestriker time number was reported in

  the metric summary page.

* Emails sent from topic property changes now include more information

  such as what specific properties were changes.  Topic creation

  emails also include the list of files which have been changed.

Version 1.8.0

* Initial support for Perforce integration.  Can handle topic text

  from a Perforce describe command, such as:

  "p4 describe -du <changenumber>" or "p4 diff -du".

* Codestriker now works under IIS as well as Apache.  Use IPC::Open3

  rather than IPC::Run (which doesn't work under IIS) within the

  CvsLocal and CvsPserver modules when fetching remote diff data from

  CVS.  IPC::Run is no longer used.

* A new configuration variable $tmpdir is in codestriker.conf for

  unusual setups which can't use the system default temporary

  directory for the creation of temporary files.  Win32 systems are

  the usual culprit.

* The CVS rdiff parser didn't correctly handle new files within the

  diff on Win32 platforms.

* Add more win32 example configuration to codestriker.conf.

* Include the relevant DBD modules in the checksetup.pl dependency

  list, depending on what database system has been configured.

* Some minor fixes to fully support Win32-based CVS repositories,

  including use of the older-style :local:c:\\cvsrep syntax.  Also be

  more robust in handling directory separators as either forward or

  backward slashes, since different versions of CVSNT support this.

  Make sure the CVS executable path is quoted, since it will often

  contain spaces for Win32 environments.

* Improved useability of messages (when Perl modules are missing) for

  Win32 users.

* Now support ODBC and Oracle databases.  The Database

  creation/upgrade code has been modified so that it is properly

  modularised, and so checksetup.pl is far more maintainable.  Adding

  support for new Databases will now be a snap. The file table had to

  be renamed to topicfile, and comment to commentdata to avoid

  reserved word clashes in ODBC and Oracle.

* Added in a new topic listener which records all changes to a

  comment's state, property changes to a topic and when a topic has

  been viewed. Three new database tables have been added to store this

  information, which can be accessed from the metrics tab of a topic.

* Added in the ability for the topic's properties to be changed,

  including the title, author, bug ids, reviewers, cc, repository,

  project, description and state.  Updated the topic listeners to now

  take the old and new topic objects as arguments.

* Introduction of per-user and per-topic metrics functionality from

  Jason Remillard.  In the process, the UI has been changed, plus

  some general refactoring.  It is possible to generate reports

  based on these metrics over a collection of topics and time,

  to give some indications on the effectiveness of code reviewing.

* The $Codestriker::allow_repository configuration variable is removed

  since this boolean value can be derived from the length of the

  @valid_repositories list.  From Jason Remillard.

* Use tempfile() in Parser.pm to close a potential security hole, from

  Jason Remillard.

* The topic search screen has been reworked to contain "What's this?"

  links to make the individual search fields clearer.  Also, allowed

  the use of wildcards with the Author, Reviewer and Cc search fields.

Version 1.7.8

* If a badly-formatted repository value from codestriker.conf is used

  when creating a topic, report this in a user-friendly manner.

* Report an error if a new topic to be created specifies both the

  uploaded file and topic tag fields.

* Fixed bug where selecting multiple states in the search screen

  reported an input error.

* HTML escaping for the topic title on the topic confirmation screen,

  project information on the projects screens were not working

  correctly.  Most HTML escaping are now performed within the

  templates directly using the html_entity filter.

* In some cases when displaying comment or topic description text,

  hyperlinks were not automagically being created.  If the text

  contains a URL such as http://zot.com, it needs to be rendered for

  convenience as <A HREF="http://zot.com">http://zot.com</A>.  In

  addition, if the text contains a pattern like [Bb]ug \d+ (ie Bug

  122), this will be hyperlinked to the appropriate URL of the

  bugtracking system, if one has been specified in the Codestriker

  configuration.

* In the view comments screen with context displayed, very long topic

  lines would push the "filename:linenumber", "Parallel" and "Add

  Comment" links way off to the far right of the page, requiring

  horizontal scrolling to see them.  Rework the display so that they

  are always pushed to the left, regardless of the length of the topic

  lines.

* Added "Check All"/"Clear All" links in the view comments page for

  convenience.

* If there is an error in sending an email, make sure a descriptive

  error message is displayed.  Thanks to Jason Remillard

  <jremillardshop@yahoo.com> for spotting this.

Version 1.7.7

* The table of contents links on the view topic page didn't include

  the brmode parameter, so clicking on a filename link reloaded the

  whole topic page, which is inconvenient.  This reloading behaviour

  has also been fixed when coming from the topic list or create topic

  page.

Version 1.7.6

* Fixed bug where created topics for deployments which had projects

  disabled were not handled correctly.

* Fixed bug found by Jason Remillard <jremillardshop@yahoo.com> where

  emails were being sent for those lines which already had a comment,

  but $allow_comment_email was false.

Version 1.7.5

* Added in support for parsing VSS diffs, and retrieving file data

  from a VSS repository.  VSS support is not complete yet, as the

  script for generated the diff text has not been submitted yet.

The following changes below were from Aaron Kardell

<akardell@altonaed.com>:

* Modified unidiff parser so that diffs created with

  --show-function-line and --show-c-function can be parsed and

  displayed in the view topic screen.

* Incorporated SubmitCodeReview.pl script, which can be used for

  automating the submission of a code review topic from the command

  line.  It also has support for incremental code reviews.  See the

  script and its help text for more details.

* Added an option to the view topic screen which controls how text is

  wrapped.  This can be useful for reviews with long source code lines.

The following changes below were from Jason Remillard

<jremillardshop@yahoo.com>:

* The topic view page has been modified so that a non-diff topic makes

  better use of screen real-estate.

* Non-diff topic text uploads now include the filename, rather than

  just "unknown".

* Turned off more project-specific display that should be hidden when

  projects are not enabled.

* Delete topic button moved to topic state option on view topic

  screen.

* List comments page modified so that it is now possible to filter by

  user and/or comment state.  It is also possible to show the context

  text associated with each comment.  This page can now be used as a

  form of a printable report, suitable for code inspection meetings.

* Configuration option $allow_comment_email (default true) which

  indicates if an email is sent for each comment made.  If the Cc

  field in the add comment page is filled, an email will be sent to

  that address regardless.

* The default page shown by Codestriker is the list of open topics,

  rather than all topics in the system.

* Introduced the notion of soft and hard topic text length limits,

  specified in the configuration file.  By default, the limits are not

  set, and therefore not enforced.  The rationale is code inspections

  become less effective as the size of the review increases.  If a

  review is longer than the hard limit, the topic will not be created.

  If the topic text length is greater than the soft limit, a warning

  message is displayed in the view topic page.

Version 1.7.4

* Major documentation rewrite.  All documentation (installation/user

  guide/hacking) is now present in doc/codestriker.sgml, in DocBook

  format.

* Now have simple "Help" links on all screens, which link to the

  appropriate HTML segment of the Codestriker User's guide.

* The Bugzilla database name can be explicitly specified in the

  Codestriker configuration, to cater for non-standard Bugzilla

  deployments.

* Modified handling of Subversion diffs so it can handle diffs of the

  form cvs diff -r2:3 filename.

The following changes below were from Jason Remillard

<jremillardshop@yahoo.com>:

* The Codestriker title is now a link to the list topic page.

* If Bugzilla integration is not enabled (empty $bug_db), hide all of

  the references to the topic bug id (topic list, new topic, view

  topic and search).

* Added some additional help in the create topic page to clarify with 

  usage of the start tag, end tag and module fields.

* Hide the project combo box if the user does not have projects

  enabled.

* Fixed some spelling mistakes in the create topic pop-up help.

* The rows in the delta table that are associated with a topic were

  not deleted when a topic is deleted.

Version 1.7.3

* Make sure comments are properly HTML-escaped in the list comments

  screen, to avoid display problems when comments contain HTML tags.

* Tooltip comments should not be HTML-escaped, for correct rendering.

* Make sure after conducting a search, that pressing the "back" button

  will go back to the form with the search parameters still present.

* Modified checksetup.pl so that the module dependencies are checked

  before compiling Codestriker, so that meaningful error messages

  about missing modules are reported.

* Added a filename checkbox to the search form, so reviews can be

  retrieved which contain a certain filename.

* The "Contains text" search field can now handle wildcards, to enable

  more sophisticated topic searches.

* Addressed some LXR highlighting issues when the identifier names

  clash with HTML entity names.

Version 1.7.2

* Modified so that Codestriker can run on a Windows box with a local

  CVS repository.  See the README file for installation details.

  The LXR::Run module is now used for increased portability and

  reliability under mod_perl.

* Codestriker has been modified slightly to support mod_perl under

  Apache 2.X.  See the README file for more information.  To support

  Apache 2.X, cgi-bin/codestriker.pl is now auto-generated by the

  checksetup.pl script and is no longer included in the distribution.

* Accepted patch from Wesley Smith <wesleysmith@users.sourceforge.net>

  which replaces CGI::escapeHTML with HTML::Entities::encode.  Some

  versions of CGI::escapeHTML seem to misbehave.

* Accepted patch from Wesley Smith <wesleysmith@users.sourceforge.net>

  to indicate that the topic filename needs to be re-entered if there

  is an input-field validation problem in the create topic screen and

  a topic text file was specified.

* Fixed out-of-date help message for the "Topic text upload" field

  reported by Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>.

* Implemented suggestion by Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>,

  where repositories can be optionally mapped to different LXR

  databases, rather than just specifying a single LXR database (as was

  the case with previous versions).

  This is a minor codestriker.conf syntax change that needs to be

  addressed for all upgrades.  The old $lxr_db, $lxr_user,

  $lxr_password and $lxr_idlookup_base_url variables have now been

  replaced by a single $lxr_map variable.  See the codestriker.conf

  file for more details.

* Fixed minor bug where the filename wasn't being properly retrieved

  from a CVS diff when a binary file was being removed.

Version 1.7.1.2

* Compressed output (see $use_compression in codestriker.conf) is now

  working correctly.

* Set the project id in the cookie for the ListTopics screen, if the

  search is only being conducted over a single project.

Version 1.7.1.1

* Problem for creating new projects for MySQL fixed.

* Minor fix to the untaint code for start tag, end tag and module

  name, to make it accept filename characters.  That way, the module

  argument can be a filename in a CVS repository, rather than a

  module.

Version 1.7.1

* The notion of "projects" has been integrated.  Now every topic in

  the system is associated with a single project.  There are now

  screens for creating new projects, and modifying their

  names/descriptions.  It is now possible to perform topic searches

  and to limit it within specific projects.  This has been added in to

  support deployments where there is a large number of users working

  on different projects.  The create topic and view topic screens have

  been modified accordingly.

  Note there is a new configuration option in codestriker.conf called

  $allow_projects.  If this is set to non-zero, then the project

  management screens will be accessible, otherwise they can't be

  accessed.  This can be convenient for those deployments which have

  set their project data, and don't want it modified.

* Pserver repository type has been added, so that code reviews against

  remote CVS repositories can be linked using :pserver.  See the

  codestriker.conf file for more information.

* When creating a review, instead of uploading a diff file, a start

  tag, end tag and module name can be given as input.  Codestriker

  will fetch the review text and initialise the topic appropriately.

  This better suited some development processes out there, where

  separate branches were used for development, which needed to be

  reviewed before collapsing to a trunk.  These options are only

  displayed if repositories are enabled ($allow_repositories == 1) in

  codestriker.conf.

* Support for parsing output from "cvs rdiff -uN -r TAG1 -r TAG2

  module".  This was required to support the "TAG input" method above.

* Make sure that topic text that has DOS line endings \r\n are

  correctly parsed.

* Fixed a bug where searches over comment data wasn't returning

  correct results.

* Minor changes to checksetup - make sure the template directory is

  cleaned out to ensure the templates are regenerated when performing

  an upgrade.

* Changed codestriker.conf to use single quotes rather than double, so

  that there are no Perl escaping issues.

Version 1.7.0.2

* Remove the topic textarea in the create topic screen.  Now the only

  way to generated reviews is to upload a file.  The main motiviation

  is in practice, the textarea was no longer used, and to get some

  more real-estate for some newer features on this page in future

  versions.

Version 1.7.0.1

* Fixed silly bug which prevented repository-linked reviews from

  working correctly.

Version 1.7.0

* Massive refactor so that the diff parsing and rendering code is

  broken up into a number of clearly defined modules, which will

  allow for the easier adoption of different SCM systems in the future.

* In addition to CVS and PATCH modules, which existed in previous

  version of codestriker but have now been ported into the new

  module structure, Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org) suppport

  has been included.

* Modified HTML generation so topic view output is smaller, by using

  javascript functions to reduce the HREF size for each filenumber.

Version 1.6.5

* Modified diff reader to handle diffs of the form:

  cvs diff -uN -r TAG1 -r TAG2

  This allows code reviews to occur for different development

  practices, for example, if separate branches are used for

  development, which are then reviewed, before collapsing into

  the mainline branch.

* Also modified the pre-requisite Perl module version numbers.

Version 1.6.4

* Comments associated with a specific line in a review now have the

  notion of state, which includes "Submitted" (the initial state),

  "Invalid" (indicating an invalid comment) and "Completed" (indicated

  that the comments have been addressed).  The new screen "list

  comments" allows an author of the review to see all the comments

  appropriately listed (order by line, then date), and allows for the

  mass changing of states.

  This is likely to be easier to handle than wading through a mass of

  emails.  The screen also allows for replies to comments to be easily

  made against existing comments.

Version 1.6.3

* In the topic list screen, it is now possible to selected multiple

  topics and mass update their state, or delete them.

* Improved error message reporting when topics have been deleted and

  they are trying to be viewed, or the state of a topic is attempted

  to be updated when it has already been changed by another user (ie

  the topic is "stale").

* The repository field in the create topic screen is replaced with a

  drop-down list of valid repositories.  The repositories are set in

  codestriker.conf for the configuration variable @valid_repositories.

Version 1.6.2

* Fixed warnings in checksetup.pl for MySQL databases, where "commits"

  are ignored.

* If there are form elements not properly filled in the "create topic"

  screen, redirect to that page with the error messages displayed,

  with the previous form elements remembered.  The only exception is

  the filename in the file upload input box, since browsers usually

  don't accept pre-defined for security reasons.

* Fixed minor warnings for topic list screen when the cc field is empty.