Clearcase Integration

[Nitin GUpta]

My company is using Clear Case for repository, I have very little
understanding of clearcase. While searching i found that clearcase
could be supported by Review Board. So we installed Review Board. But
unable to configure the clearcase settings.

Could anyone of you please help me to setup Review Board for Clearcase.

[Dan Savilonis]

Hi Nitin,

There are some instructions in the documentation on setting up Review
Board for ClearCase which you should start with, as well as various
threads you can search for in the mailing list. However, I'd recommend
you find someone who is comfortable with ClearCase and cleartool to
set it up. The process is not as smooth or flexible as with other VCS.
ClearCase does not fit well into the Review Board model and though
there seem to be a number of users out there, I haven't seen a lot of
feedback on how well it works for them.

Dan

[Michael Zhilin]

Hi Dan, Nitin,

I would like to explain how we use ReviewBoard with ClearCase. Each
project contains 2 CC streams: for development and for integration. We
review only changes of development stream. Changes with same activity
headline are posted in one review request. Nobody creates review
requests. Review requests are created by special cron job which makes
monitoring of development stream. All review comments are sent to
development and tracked by internal issue tracking system.

I'm happy with ReviewBoard. It is perfect tool. But there is lack of
IDE integration for more flexible code review now (Eclipse+Mylyn).

Sincerely yours,

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[David McCloskey]

I noticed on mine that when I make the review request, It makes a
reference to a /CHECKEDOUT in the path, which means that when that
file is checked in, the review request will be broken. Is that
intended? If so, it's not good. Is there some place where discussion
can be made about how to change this? I'm willing to put some time in
to change how this works to make it work better.

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[Dan Savilonis]

David,

Feel free to start a discussion on reviewboard-dev. I haven't put any
active effort into improving support because I believe Clearcase is
obsolete, but I'll certainly help with any questions you have.

Michael -- I'm curious, are you using RB unmodified, or do you
maintain a custom patchset to support your usage?

Dan

[Christian Hammond]

We certainly want to support Clearcase. Unfortunately, we don't have access to a Clearcase license or install, so we pretty much need support from the community for this.

If anyone does have any patchsets for improved Clearcase support, please do let us know :) I would be happy to see our support improve and become easy to use.

Christian

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[Michael Zhilin]

Hi Dan,

Yes, we make some changes of RB to make it workable with our
repository. Briefly, two correction were done: first correction to
fetch file version from clearcase, second - job to fetch last changes
from clearcase (new activities, modified activities). It was quick hot
fix to lead RB to production mode.

Sincerely yours,
Michael.

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