[wtp-dev] adopter usage reports

[Craig Salter <csalter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's my thoughts on the  adopter
usage reports and the nifty plugin tool.  I talked to Jeffrey about
this last week but figured it may be of general interest.

- We need more adopter reports.  Currently
I see 3 and they're all from IBM.  I know there's other companies
building on WTP ... can we get more reports?  Perhaps we need to do
a better job of advertising this capability?  

- We need more frequent updates to our
reports.  My team made a 'boo boo' last week that the reports would
not have caught since the adopter didn't add the dependency until after
the report was generated.   That does not excuse our 'boo boo' of
course :-)

- The plugin tool is nice! Kudos to
Jeffrey!  I think finding breakages 'after' you've already made the
code changes is too late in some cases.  I'd like a way to view the
reports so that I can eyeball the usages 'before' I even think about making
code changes.  Can someone write an XSL file so we can generate pretty
HTML to read  these things?  It'd be very nice to publish these
on the WTP site.

- This is a minor one ... our usage
report files are large xml files that are formatted in such a way that
the entire thing fits on one line.  I think one of the great benefits
of XML is that it's 'semi-readable'.   Can we please generate reports
with standard formatting so they can be read by humans? 

BTW....  I noticed that our SSE
based tools really don't like these one-liner-xml-files.  I originally
attempted to open one of these suckers in the XML editor so I could format
it there.   That didn't turn out so well (I'll open a bug for this..
but I think it's a known problem).   I guess some programs have as
hard a time with these as humans do :-)   I created an XSL file to
format the one-line-xml-files into multiple lines with indents (attached
below) if anyone wants to use it.  




thanks

Craig


Craig Salter
Rational Studio XML Web Services
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