Re: [dash-dev] IP Log Tool

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The new IP Log Tool concept gathers information from the Foundation 
database for both initial population of the log and maintenance. It 
allows for far more customization than the current Automated IP Log tool 
which was found to be insufficient for many of the projects that 
participated in the Galileo release (which revealed numerous 
deficiencies). Fundamentally, the only difference is that you can edit 
the log from within Eclipse and you have to explicitly store it somewhere.

We're solving several problems with the new approach:

* Current approach is not customizable enough
* Current approach has no support for snapshots in time
* You can make a copy of the HTML, but then you're on your own if 
editing is required
* Current approach takes an exclusion-based approach (i.e. you are 
required to exclude what shouldn't there) which allows pretty much 
anybody to modify the log by adding new comments/entries in Bugzilla.

Perhaps this is naive, but I assumed that Eclipse developers would be 
supportive of Eclipse-based tools. Having said that, in order to use the 
tool, a committer will have to actually install it onto their 
workstation. I can understand how this might not be palatable. I'll try 
to solicit more feedback.

I'm looking at Bug 275529. As I recall, when you first posted the link 
to the Google Doc, I couldn't access it. Then a squirrel ran past the 
window and I was onto the next thing. Lame excuse. I am posting my 
resolution to the bug now.

Wayne