I see this as a set of 'helper' plugins or extensions to the existing ones.
i.e. something that knows where the checkstyle output files are and knows how to sort them and produce trending output. ditto for pmd, activity, etc. etc. It's definitely a plugin or a set of them, and not part of Maven core. It very much would be appreciated by me, as this is exactly what I need too ;-) -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ Aslak Helles�y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/08/2003 02:00:03 AM: > 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] >
