State of rbchecklist extension

[Florian Miedniak]

Hi,

in our setup we need some kind of checklist both to guide the reviewers and to document that some aspects like security have been part of the review. 

So, I had a look at rbchecklist extension and managed to build and install it for testing: Creating a checklist from scratch works just fine.

After that, I searched for a possibility to have some pre-defined checklists: I saw that it is possible to define per-user checklist templates, but I didn't found a way to use them when creating a checklist for a review.

Instead, I found these review requests, all of them discarded about 2 years ago:

- https://reviews.reviewboard.org/r/7960/ Add checklist items from a template

- https://reviews.reviewboard.org/r/8013/ Adding support for auto adding checklist templates to new checklists

- https://reviews.reviewboard.org/r/8053/ Added warning when user publishes review without checking off all items

All of them would be the perfect fit from our use-case perspective ...

May you tell me why you discarded them? 

Is there a way to use the checklist templates with current state of rbchecklist extension?

Is there any further development planned for the rbchecklist extension or will it remain in its current (alpha) state?

-Florian

[David Trowbridge]

Florian,

The rbchecklist codebase is quite ancient and really needs a full rewrite. Those discarded changes were from student projects and we decided we didn't particularly want to be landing changes when we knew that the underlying design had some fundamental flaws.

I'd love to be able to spend time building a new checklist extension but at the moment we have much higher priorities.

David

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[Florian Miedniak]

Hi David,

thanks for that confirmation, I already suspected this. This definitely answers my question, if it's worth to build upon rbchecklist extension.

-Florian