Yep, agreed. Both are useful: - the dashboard is useful to compare projects (like when you have several subprojects part of a bigger project) - the historical data is useful to compare a project with itself across time.
-Vincent > -----Original Message----- > From: Aslak Hellesøy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 August 2003 18:00 > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: [idea] Multiproject Dashboard > > Vincent Massol wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >We have lots of very nice code quality reports: checkstyle, pmd, simian, > >findbugs, activity, jdepend, clover, etc. However, having these reports > >is not enough to make the problems go away. > > > >One idea that may help is to provide a global dashboard for all projects > >(as part of the multiproject plugin). For example: > > > > > >Project name | Checkstyle | Clover | PMD | ... | > > > >Project1 | 500 | 60% | 70 | ... | > >Project2 | 1500 | n/a | 35 | ... | > >[...] > > > >(being able to sort on columns would be even nicer) > > > >Even better would be a "overall score" but that will probably be too > >difficult to achieve and will make sense only for projects using the > >same reports and the same rules inside each reports. > > > >Anyway, on my project at work we have several hundreds of projects and > >it's just downright impossible to get a nice view of all checks for all > >projects and see which project needs to get more quality focus than > >others. Such a view would make it possible. > > > >My belief is that once we get that dashboard, some competition may > >emerge between projects and people will start paying more attention to > >the reports. > > > >What do you think? Anyone fancy doing this? :-) > > > > > I'd love to, but I've got too many things going. But the feature I > really want to see is historical data of these metrics. > That way, it is possible to generate graphs showing various trends in > the codebase. > > This is a lot more valuable than just looking at a static snapshot of > the current codebase. You get a feel of > when code coverage dropped, code duplication increased etc. > > Now I think this is a separate project, and should be decoupled from > Maven. > > Aslak > > >Thanks > >-Vincent > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/rinkrank/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
